The Missing vs Where the Wild Things Are: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
The Missing
2007 Bram Stoker Award winner. A remote and affluent Maine community, Corpus Christi was untouched by the environmental catastrophe that destroyed the neighboring blue-collar town of Bedford. But all that will change…
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Where the Wild Things Are
“The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him "WILD THING!”
This is an inspired children's book about a boy's passage through tempestuous aspects of life. Max, a naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things, where he becomes their…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Where the Wild Things Are highest: Where the Wild Things Are 4.3 · The Missing 3.9.
- Where the Wild Things Are is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 7 for The Missing.
- Where the Wild Things Are has the widest readership — 1086320 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Want a one-evening read?
Where the Wild Things Are
≈ 1h vs 7h for The Missing
Want the crowd-tested pick?
Where the Wild Things Are
1086320 ratings vs 24767 for The Missing
Just want the better-reviewed one?
Where the Wild Things Are
4.3 vs 3.9 from readers
New to the genre?
The Missing
Moderate vs Challenging for Where the Wild Things Are
Scores by source
| The Missing | Where the Wild Things Are | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (24767) | 4.3 (1086320) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | 4.2 (716) |
| Google Books | 3.5 (2) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (5) | 4.5 (16) |
Reception
| The Missing | Where the Wild Things Are | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 24767 | 1086320 |
| Editions | 4 | 125 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 327321 |
| Reading it now | — | 2749 |
| Written reviews | — | 15192 |
| Wikipedia attention | 949 | 15393 |
| Pages | 416 | 44 |