Reef vs The Remains of the Day: Which Should You Read?

Reef Romesh Gunesekera · 1994 ★★★★☆ 3.7 192 pages · ≈ 3 h 33 m · Moderate

Triton is a young chef who was forced to leave his father's house to work for Mr. Ranjan Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements, and a Sri Lankan island's disappearing reef. Almost immediately,…

The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989 ★★★★☆ 4.3 257 pages · ≈ 4 h 46 m · Moderate

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is…