Pretty Girls vs Shutter Island: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Pretty Girls Pretty Girls Karin Slaughter · 2001 ★★★★☆ 4.0 432 pages · ≈ 8 h 00 m · Light

More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of…

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Cover of Shutter Island Shutter Island Dennis Lehane · 2003 ★★★★☆ 4.3 380 pages · ≈ 7 h 02 m · Moderate

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel…

The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Pretty GirlsShutter Island
Goodreads — 4.1 (18)
Hardcover 3.9 (420) 4.1 (362)
Google Books 4.0 (3) 5.0 (1)
Apple Books 4.0 (5421) 4.5 (792)

Reception

Pretty GirlsShutter Island
Ratings 5421 792
Editions 7 64
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read — 27
Pages 432 380

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