Northanger Abbey vs Wuthering Heights: Which Should You Read?

Northanger Abbey Jane Austen · 1818 ★★★★☆ 3.9 264 pages · ≈ 4 h 53 m · Moderate

Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of…

Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë · 1846 ★★★★☆ 3.9 356 pages · ≈ 6 h 36 m · Moderate

“1801.-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.”

Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons,…