Nineteen Eighty-Four vs Of Mice and Men: 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…

Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck · 1937 ★★★★☆ 3.9 194 pages · ≈ 3 h 36 m · Challenging

“A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.”

The second book in John Steinbeck’s labor trilogy, Of Mice and Men is a touching tale of two migrant laborers in search of work and eventual liberation from their social circumstances. Fiercely devoted to one another,…