Misery vs Thinner: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Horror, Fiction
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
vs
Thinner
“"Thinner," the old Gypsy man with the rotting nose whispers to William Halleck as Halleck and his wife, Heidi, come out of the court-house.”
Thinner is a horror novel by American author Stephen King, published in 1984 by NAL under King's pseudonym Richard Bachman. The story centers on lawyer Billy Halleck, who kills a crossing Romani woman in a road accident…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Misery highest: Misery 4.2 · Thinner 3.8.
- Misery has the widest readership — 855105 ratings behind its score.
- Thinner runs the darker storyline; Misery stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Misery | Thinner | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (855105) | 3.8 (232249) |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (1323) | 3.5 (341) |
| Google Books | 4.5 (3) | 3.5 (10) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1023) | 4.5 (135) |
Reception
| Misery | Thinner | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 855105 | 232249 |
| Editions | 99 | 62 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 543737 | 105179 |
| Reading it now | 19231 | 1792 |
| Written reviews | 41012 | 5346 |
| Wikipedia attention | 14535 | 7138 |
| Pages | 384 | 318 |