Hope vs The Birthday Party: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Victims of crimes, Kidnapping Victims, Kidnapping, True Crime, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
Hope
On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland home and called 911, saying: "Help me, I'm Amanda Berry... I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for ten years." A horrifying…
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The Birthday Party
On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley N. Alpert was kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan by a car full of gun-toting thugs looking to use his ATM card. He ended…
The verdict
- Readers rate Hope highest: Hope 4.4 · The Birthday Party 3.7.
- Hope has the widest readership — 20096 ratings behind its score.
- Hope runs the darker storyline; The Birthday Party stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Hope | The Birthday Party | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.4 (20096) | 3.7 (13362) |
| Hardcover | 3.4 (5) | — |
| Apple Books | 5.0 (1416) | 4.0 (16) |
Reception
| Hope | The Birthday Party | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 20096 | 13362 |
| Editions | 10 | 5 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 20777 | 563 |
| Reading it now | 1002 | 29 |
| Written reviews | 1735 | 127 |
| Wikipedia attention | 2396 | 484 |
| Pages | 336 | 320 |