NOS4A2 vs The Institute: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Missing children, Psychic ability, Kidnapping, Missing persons, Thriller, Fiction
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The Institute
“Half an hour after Tim Jamieson's Delta flight was scheduled to leave Tampa for the bright lights and tall buildings of New York, it was still parked at the gate.”
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate NOS4A2 highest: NOS4A2 4.5 · The Institute 4.2.
- The Institute has the widest readership — 358507 ratings behind its score.
- The Institute runs the darker storyline; NOS4A2 stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| NOS4A2 | The Institute | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.2 (358507) |
| Hardcover | 3.0 (3) | 4.1 (879) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1202) | 4.5 (6587) |
Reception
| NOS4A2 | The Institute | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1202 | 358507 |
| Editions | 5 | 28 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 399692 |
| Reading it now | — | 32135 |
| Written reviews | — | 33560 |
| Wikipedia attention | 5006 | 8473 |
| Pages | 702 | 624 |