Schindler's List vs The Boys from Brazil: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Concentration Camps, Holocaust, World War II, Fiction
Schindler's List
Winner of the Booker Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler,…
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The Boys from Brazil
“Early one evening in September of 1974 a small twin-engine plane, silver and black, sailed down onto a secondary runway at Sao Paulo's Congonhas Airport, and slowing, turned aside and taxied to a hangar where a limousine stood waiting.”
A Group of Obscure Men Ninety-four civil servants. All aged Sixty-five. Harmless men. In different countries. All of them marked for death. Unknowing Guardians of a Monster Their deaths will be but the…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Schindler's List highest: Schindler's List 4.3 · The Boys from Brazil 3.9.
- The Boys from Brazil is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 7 for Schindler's List.
- Schindler's List has the widest readership — 150 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Schindler's List | The Boys from Brazil | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 4.2 (74) | 3.9 (57) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (150) | 4.5 (14) |
Reception
| Schindler's List | The Boys from Brazil | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 150 | 57 |
| Editions | 15 | 48 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 90719 | 4956 |
| Pages | 400 | 286 |