A Room with a View vs Daisy Miller: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Young women in fiction, Young women, Travel, Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction
A Room with a View
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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…
Daisy Miller
“At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.”
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A beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, is pursued by the sophisticated Winterbourne, who moves in fairly conservative circles. Their courtship is frowned upon by the other Americans they meet in Switzerland and Italy…
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The verdict
- Readers rate A Room with a View highest: A Room with a View 3.9 · Daisy Miller 3.4.
- Daisy Miller is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 3 for A Room with a View.
- 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 | Daisy Miller | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (208001) | 3.4 (39141) |
| Hardcover | 3.6 (212) | 3.2 (53) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (60) | 4.0 (242) |
Reception
| A Room with a View | Daisy Miller | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 208001 | 39141 |
| Editions | 755 | 244 |
| Citations | 1 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 248660 | 26603 |
| Reading it now | 10212 | 859 |
| Written reviews | 11868 | 3160 |
| Wikipedia attention | 10623 | 3024 |
| Pages | 196 | 62 |
Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: A Room with a View or Daisy Miller?
A Room with a View has the higher combined reader rating across sources (A Room with a View 3.9/5, Daisy Miller 3.4/5).
Which is shorter to read: A Room with a View or Daisy Miller?
Daisy Miller is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: Daisy Miller (62 pages, ≈ 1 h 09 m); A Room with a View (196 pages, ≈ 3 h 38 m).
Which is harder to read: A Room with a View or Daisy Miller?
Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — A Room with a View: Challenging; Daisy Miller: Challenging.
Have both books been made into films?
A Room with a View: 4 film adaptations; Daisy Miller: 5 film adaptations.