The Lost World vs Timeline: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Science Fiction, Thriller, Fiction
The Lost World
“The Santa Fe Institute was housed in a series of buildings on Canyon Road which had formerly been a convent, and the Institute's seminars were held in a room which had served as a chapel.”
The Lost World is a 1995 techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton, and the sequel to his 1990 novel Jurassic Park. It is his tenth novel under his own name and his twentieth overall, and it was published by…
1 film adaptation
vs
Timeline
“He should never have taken that shortcut.”
Timeline is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his twelfth under his own name and twenty-second overall, published in November 1999. It tells the story of a group of history students who travel…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Timeline has the widest readership — 220450 ratings behind its score.
- Timeline runs the darker storyline; The Lost World stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Lost World | Timeline | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (189979) | 3.9 (220450) |
| Hardcover | 3.0 (1) | 3.6 (566) |
| Google Books | — | 4.0 (24) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1563) | 4.5 (1094) |
Reception
| The Lost World | Timeline | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 189979 | 220450 |
| Editions | 78 | 64 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 70216 | 77085 |
| Reading it now | 7097 | — |
| Written reviews | 9225 | 6826 |
| Wikipedia attention | 19677 | 6249 |
| Pages | 393 | 465 |