Borrowed Time vs In the Dream House: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: LGBTQ biography and memoir, Lambda Literary Awards, Gay, Biography & Memoir
Borrowed Time
This "tender and lyrical" memoir (New York Times Book Review) remains one of the most compelling documents of the AIDS era-"searing, shattering, ultimately hope inspiring account of a great love story" (San Francisco…
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In the Dream House
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- In the Dream House has the widest readership — 169930 ratings behind its score.
- Borrowed Time runs the darker storyline; In the Dream House stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Borrowed Time | In the Dream House | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.4 (2993) | 4.4 (169930) |
| Hardcover | 5.0 (5) | 4.4 (392) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (22) | 4.5 (407) |
Reception
| Borrowed Time | In the Dream House | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 2993 | 169930 |
| Editions | 12 | 9 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 8268 | — |
| Reading it now | 223 | — |
| Written reviews | 303 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 35 | 2167 |
| Pages | 342 | 296 |