Normal People vs The Great Gatsby: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: First loves, Romance, Fiction
Normal People
At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother…
1 film adaptation
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The Great Gatsby
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Normal People is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 7 for The Great Gatsby.
- The Great Gatsby has the widest readership — 6120259 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Normal People | The Great Gatsby | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (1986467) | 3.9 (6120259) |
| Hardcover | 4.2 (2) | 4.5 (2) |
| Google Books | 3.0 (2) | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (5617) | 4.5 (806) |
| LiveLib | — | 4.0 (5) |
Reception
| Normal People | The Great Gatsby | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1986467 | 6120259 |
| Editions | 27 | 1179 |
| Citations | — | 24 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 1341528 | 2127185 |
| Reading it now | 75677 | 85180 |
| Written reviews | 203677 | 138625 |
| Wikipedia attention | 17627 | 94574 |
| Pages | 309 | 431 |