Eragon vs The lightning thief: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Adventure, Fiction
Eragon
One boy... One dragon... A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when…
1 film adaptation
vs
The lightning thief
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate The lightning thief highest: The lightning thief 4.4 · Eragon 4.0.
- The lightning thief is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 9 for Eragon.
- The lightning thief has the widest readership — 147799 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Eragon | The lightning thief | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (34051) | 4.4 (147799) |
| Hardcover | 3.7 (2538) | 4.0 (95) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (3) | 4.5 (12) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (2358) | 4.5 (345) |
Reception
| Eragon | The lightning thief | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 34051 | 147799 |
| Editions | 90 | 17 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 685892 | 39322 |
| Reading it now | — | 8704 |
| Written reviews | 34051 | 2960 |
| Wikipedia attention | 18811 | — |
| Pages | 518 | 128 |