Nineteen Eighty-Four vs Shining Through: Which Should You Read?

Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell · 1949 ★★★★☆ 4.2 244 pages · ≈ 4 h 31 m · Challenging

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker…

Shining Through Susan Isaacs · 1988 ★★★★☆ 4.3 403 pages · ≈ 7 h 28 m · Moderate

“In 1940, when I was thirty-one and an old maid, while the whole word waited for war, I fell in love with John Berringer.”

"Laced with heartbreak, drama and thrills...Marvelously readable."--THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER It's 1940, and Linda Voss, legal secretary extraordinaire, has a secret; she's in love with her boss the pride of the Ivy…