The Custom of the Country vs The Keeper of Lost Things: Which Should You Read?

The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton · 1900 ★★★★☆ 4.1 614 pages · ≈ 11 h 22 m · Challenging

Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. It follows…

The Keeper of Lost Things Ruth Hogan · 2017 ★★★★☆ 4.0 344 pages · ≈ 6 h 22 m · Moderate

Collecting things dropped or left behind by others and writing stories about them as a tribute to the fiancée who died the day he lost one of her keepsakes, a man bequeaths his estate to his unsuspecting assistant, who…