Paper Towns vs The Great Gatsby: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Revenge, Young Adult, Romance, Fiction
Paper Towns
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate,…
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
- Readers rate The Great Gatsby highest: The Great Gatsby 3.9 · Paper Towns 3.7.
- The Great Gatsby has the widest readership — 6120259 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Paper Towns | The Great Gatsby | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (1518122) | 3.9 (6120259) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (4) | 4.5 (2) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (5027) | 4.5 (806) |
| LiveLib | — | 4.0 (5) |
Reception
| Paper Towns | The Great Gatsby | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1518122 | 6120259 |
| Editions | 51 | 1179 |
| Citations | — | 24 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 670339 | 2127185 |
| Reading it now | 23125 | 85180 |
| Written reviews | 59731 | 138625 |
| Wikipedia attention | 4612 | 94574 |
| Pages | 334 | 431 |