The Book Thief vs The Great Gatsby: Which Should You Read?

The Book Thief Markus Zusak · 1998 ★★★★☆ 4.4 564 pages · ≈ 10 h 27 m · Light

“a mountain range of rubble in which our narrator introduces: himself – the colours – and the book thief.”

The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death…

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920 ★★★★☆ 3.9 431 pages · ≈ 7 h 59 m · Moderate

“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…