The Chamber
- 605
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
- Film 1996
- On screen
Affiliate link: buying through it supports BookRank at no extra cost to you.
Our view
“The Chamber” holds attention across a long, dark legal thriller through its characters and its emotional weight. Grisham’s fifth novel turns on a crime, a family and a moral dilemma; its people are fully realised and the story hits hard. Some readers find that it drags slightly in a few places across its six hundred pages and that another figure involved in the crime deserved a larger part.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
The Chamber (1994) is a legal thriller written by American author John Grisham. It is Grisham's fifth novel.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen once.
- FilmThe ChamberIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.1 across 175 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 54% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.0 | 12 | 7% |
| Google Books | 7.0 | 17 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 146 | 83% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Chamber?
It has 605 pages — longer than 92% of the ranked books in Thriller.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
Same shelf — Thriller — with scores between 7.3 and 7.5, closest to this book.
