Agency vs The year of the quiet sun: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: The Future, Time Travel, Fiction
Agency
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING” returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The…
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The year of the quiet sun
Unavoidably, David Cheney becomes part of the future, in which a nuclear war has weakened both East and West, and in which America is torn by a race war. Yet among this desolate world, he discovers reasons for living.
The verdict
- Readers rate Agency highest: Agency 3.8 · The year of the quiet sun 3.6.
- The year of the quiet sun is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 7 for Agency.
- Agency has the widest readership — 14885 ratings behind its score.
- The year of the quiet sun runs the darker storyline; Agency stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Agency | The year of the quiet sun | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (14885) | 3.6 (776) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (150) | 3.0 (3) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (386) | — |
Reception
| Agency | The year of the quiet sun | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 14885 | 776 |
| Editions | 9 | 15 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 25855 | 1429 |
| Reading it now | 2335 | 5 |
| Written reviews | 1681 | 74 |
| Wikipedia attention | 3603 | 234 |
| Pages | 416 | 252 |