Eleven vs Rebecca: Which Should You Read?

Eleven Patricia Highsmith · 1970 ★★★★☆ 3.6 180 pages · ≈ 3 h 20 m · Moderate

The stories in Eleven are small masterpieces of Patricia Highsmith’s particular art—that of obsession and foreboding, of probing the dark corners of the human psyche. From the eerily outlandish (a man suffocated by…

Rebecca Daphne du Maurier · 1938 ★★★★☆ 4.2 366 pages · ≈ 6 h 47 m · Challenging

“Suddenly I saw a clearing in the dark drive ahead, and a patch of sky, and in a moment the dark trees had thinned, the nameless shrubs had disappeared, and on either side of us was a wall of colour, blood-red, reaching far above our heads. We were amongst the rhododendrons. There was something bewildering, even shocking, about the suddenness of their discovery. The woods had not prepared me for th”

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the…