A Room with a View vs Brideshead Revisited: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
A Room with a View
Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional…
1 film adaptation
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Brideshead Revisited
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- A Room with a View is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 6 for Brideshead Revisited.
- A Room with a View has the widest readership — 208001 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| A Room with a View | Brideshead Revisited | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (208001) | 4.0 (9496) |
| Hardcover | 3.6 (212) | 3.8 (152) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (60) | 4.0 (173) |
Reception
| A Room with a View | Brideshead Revisited | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 208001 | 9496 |
| Editions | 755 | 88 |
| Citations | 1 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 248660 | 179465 |
| Reading it now | 10212 | — |
| Written reviews | 11868 | 9496 |
| Wikipedia attention | 10623 | 5528 |
| Pages | 196 | 327 |