Heartbreak Hotel vs I am Charlotte Simmons: Which Should You Read?

Heartbreak Hotel Anne Rivers Siddons · 1976 ★★★★☆ 3.8 314 pages · ≈ 5 h 49 m · Moderate

“The making of Maggie Deloach was a process as indigenous to her part of the South as the making of cotton textiles in the fortress-bricked mills that crouched over the muddy, fast-moving rivers of the Georgia and Alabama plateau country.”

Bestselling author Siddons brings to life the long, hot summer of 1956, when everyone was singing Elvis Presley's hit single. Maggie is a sorority girl, the quintessential Southern young lady--until she meets two people…

I am Charlotte Simmons Tom Wolfe · 2004 ★★★☆☆ 3.5 676 pages · ≈ 12 h 31 m · Moderate

“Every time the men's-room door opened, the amped-up onslaught of Swarm, the band banging out the concert in the theater overhead , came crashing in, ricocheting off all the mirrors and ceramic surfaces until it seemed twice as loud.”

"Dupont University - the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition... Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte…