The House Next Door vs House of Leaves: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Dwellings, American Horror tales, Fiction
The House Next Door
“CLAIRE SWANSON FROM TWO DOORS UP WAS THE FIRST ONE to tell me about the Harralson house.”
Their lives would never be the same. Colquitt and Walter Kennedy enjoyed a life of lazy weekends, gathering with the neighbors on their quiet, manicured street and sipping drinks on their patios. But when construction…
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House of Leaves
A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning…
The verdict
- Readers rate House of Leaves highest: House of Leaves 4.0 · The House Next Door 3.5.
- The House Next Door is the quickest read — about 6 hours vs 13 for House of Leaves.
- The House Next Door has the widest readership — 12205 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The House Next Door | House of Leaves | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.5 (12205) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.6 (26) | 4.1 (824) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | 4.0 (17) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (161) | 1.5 (38) |
Reception
| The House Next Door | House of Leaves | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 12205 | 824 |
| Editions | 8 | 14 |
| Citations | 11 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 7058 | — |
| Reading it now | 4787 | — |
| Written reviews | 1090 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 69 | 79718 |
| Pages | 348 | 736 |