Nineteen Eighty-Four vs The Kite Runner: Which Should You Read?

Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell · 1949 ★★★★☆ 4.2 244 pages · ≈ 4 h 31 m · Challenging

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker…

The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini · 2003 ★★★★☆ 4.4 386 pages · ≈ 7 h 09 m · Moderate

“I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.”

The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of…