Misery vs The Haunting of Hill House: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Horror
Misery
Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the…
1 film adaptation
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The Haunting of Hill House
The greatest haunted house story ever written—the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series!One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting…
The verdict
- Readers rate Misery highest: Misery 4.2 · The Haunting of Hill House 3.9.
- Misery has the widest readership — 855105 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Misery | The Haunting of Hill House | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (855105) | 3.5 (13) |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (1323) | 3.8 (1089) |
| Google Books | 4.5 (3) | 3.5 (10) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1023) | 4.0 (869) |
Reception
| Misery | The Haunting of Hill House | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 855105 | 1089 |
| Editions | 99 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 543737 | 23 |
| Reading it now | 19231 | — |
| Written reviews | 41012 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 14535 | 27899 |
| Pages | 384 | — |