Heartbreak Hotel vs Out of the night that covers me: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Alabama, Bildungsromans, Fiction
Heartbreak Hotel
“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…
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Out of the night that covers me
In Bainbridge, Alabama, eight-year-old John Gallatin McMillan III has been the center of his mother's world, cloistered and pampered, until she unexpectedly dies. Taken away by his one remaining relative, his mother's…
The verdict
- Readers rate Out of the night that covers me highest: Out of the night that covers me 4.2 · Heartbreak Hotel 3.8.
- Heartbreak Hotel is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 8 for Out of the night that covers me.
- Heartbreak Hotel has the widest readership — 32645 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Heartbreak Hotel | Out of the night that covers me | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (32645) | 4.2 (346) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (2) | — |
Reception
| Heartbreak Hotel | Out of the night that covers me | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 32645 | 346 |
| Editions | 12 | 10 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 68099 | — |
| Reading it now | 1051 | — |
| Written reviews | 5495 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 164 | — |
| Pages | 314 | 434 |