Short Stories vs Station Eleven: Which Should You Read?

Short Stories Washington Irving · 1989 ★★★★☆ 3.9 299 pages · ≈ 5 h 32 m · Moderate

Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien The celebrated…

Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel · 2014 ★★★★☆ 4.1 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Moderate

One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of "King Lear." Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named…