Paper Towns vs The corner: Which Should You Read?
Paper Towns
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate,…
1 film adaptation
vs
The corner
The notorious corner of West Fayette and Monroe Streets in Baltimore is a 24-hour open-air drug market that provides the economic fuel for a dying neighbourhood. Through the eyes of one broken family – two drug-addicted…
The verdict
- Readers rate The corner highest: The corner 4.4 · Paper Towns 3.7.
- Paper Towns is the quickest read — about 6 hours vs 11 for The corner.
- Paper Towns has the widest readership — 1518122 ratings behind its score.
- Paper Towns runs the darker storyline; The corner stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Paper Towns | The corner | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (1518122) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (4) | 4.6 (25) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | 5.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (5027) | 4.5 (63) |
Reception
| Paper Towns | The corner | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1518122 | 63 |
| Editions | 51 | 11 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 670339 | — |
| Reading it now | 23125 | — |
| Written reviews | 59731 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 4612 | 7449 |
| Pages | 334 | 628 |