Station Eleven vs The Chaperone: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Actors, Amerikanisches Englisch, Literary, Fiction
Station Eleven
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…
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The Chaperone
"A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives"--
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Station Eleven has the widest readership — 644859 ratings behind its score.
- Station Eleven runs the darker storyline; The Chaperone stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Station Eleven | The Chaperone | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (644859) | — |
| Hardcover | 5.0 (1) | 3.8 (31) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (3) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (3316) | 4.0 (1275) |
Reception
| Station Eleven | The Chaperone | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 644859 | 1275 |
| Editions | 18 | 18 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 642027 | — |
| Reading it now | 29195 | — |
| Written reviews | 73730 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 23837 | 1726 |
| Pages | 352 | 419 |