Mother Night vs Stoner: Which Should You Read?

Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut · 1961 ★★★★☆ 4.2 206 pages · ≈ 3 h 49 m · Moderate

Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife…

Stoner John Williams · 1965 ★★★★☆ 4.4 336 pages · ≈ 6 h 13 m · Moderate

“William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen.”

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a…