Misery vs Waiting: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Misery
Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the…
1 film adaptation
vs
Waiting
For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family…
The verdict
- Readers rate Misery highest: Misery 4.2 · Waiting 3.5.
- Misery has the widest readership — 855105 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Misery | Waiting | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (855105) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (1323) | 3.5 (29) |
| Google Books | 4.5 (3) | 3.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1023) | 3.5 (120) |
Reception
| Misery | Waiting | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 855105 | 120 |
| Editions | 99 | 23 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 543737 | — |
| Reading it now | 19231 | — |
| Written reviews | 41012 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 14535 | 781 |
| Pages | 384 | 308 |