addictive vs gripping

addictive

adj
  • Enjoyable. 

  • Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming. 

  • Characterized by or susceptible to addiction. 

noun
  • Anything that is very habit-forming. 

  • A drug that causes an addiction. 

gripping

adj
  • Which catches someone's attention; exciting 

noun
  • The act of forming a grip. 

How often have the words addictive and gripping occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )