As Time Goes By vs Rooms: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Family secrets, Inheritance and succession, Fiction
As Time Goes By
" In this exciting thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, the #1 New York Times bestselling "Queen of Suspense," a news reporter tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a…
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Rooms
The New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy makes her brilliant adult debut with this mesmerizing story in the tradition of The Lovely Bones, Her Fearful Symmetry, and The Ocean at…
The verdict
- Readers rate As Time Goes By highest: As Time Goes By 3.8 · Rooms 3.3.
- As Time Goes By has the widest readership — 16828 ratings behind its score.
- Rooms runs the darker storyline; As Time Goes By stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| As Time Goes By | Rooms | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (16828) | 3.3 (15789) |
| Hardcover | 3.4 (11) | 3.2 (37) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (447) | 4.0 (56) |
Reception
| As Time Goes By | Rooms | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 16828 | 15789 |
| Editions | 10 | 1 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 5570 | — |
| Reading it now | 2412 | — |
| Written reviews | 1377 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 135 | 2093 |
| Pages | 288 | — |