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

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…

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…