The Go-Between vs The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: Which Should You Read?

The Go-Between L. P. Hartley · 1953 ★★★★☆ 4.0 296 pages · ≈ 5 h 29 m · Moderate

“THE 8TH of July was a Sunday, and on the following Monday I left West Hatch, the village where we lived near Salisbury, for Brandham Hall.”

Narrated as a memoir, this excellent novel tells the story of one summer at the turn of the century when the narrator was a young boy. The boy spends the summer in question as a guest at a country estate where he…

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V. E. Schwab · 2015 ★★★★☆ 4.4 484 pages · ≈ 8 h 58 m · Moderate

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling…