Billion Dollar Whale vs The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fraud, Swindlers and swindling, True Crime, Biography & Memoir
Billion Dollar Whale
Two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters document the true story of how a young social climber orchestrated one of history's biggest financial heists, exposing the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking,…
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The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil
Bilked bankers, grifted gamblers, and swindled spinsters: welcome to the world of confidence men.You'll marvel at the elaborate schemes developed by The Yellow Kid and cry for the marks who lost it all to his…
The verdict
- Readers rate Billion Dollar Whale highest: Billion Dollar Whale 4.5 · The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil 4.0.
- Billion Dollar Whale has the widest readership — 929 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Billion Dollar Whale | The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.8 (13) |
| Hardcover | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (929) | 4.5 (12) |
Reception
| Billion Dollar Whale | The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 929 | 13 |
| Editions | 11 | 9 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | — | 122 |
| Reading it now | — | 2 |
| Written reviews | — | 3 |
| Wikipedia attention | 1821 | — |
| Pages | 399 | 297 |