Diary vs Shi ji: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Statesmen, Sources, Biography & Memoir, History
Diary
“Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold.”
Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament. The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 is one of the most important primary…
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The verdict
- Readers rate Diary highest: Diary 4.2 · Shi ji 3.7.
- Diary has the widest readership — 88 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Diary | Shi ji | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (88) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.7 (3) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (7) | — |
Reception
| Diary | Shi ji | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 88 | 1 |
| Editions | 166 | 151 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 110 | — |
| Reading it now | 32 | — |
| Written reviews | 15 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 6351 | 4432 |
| Pages | 16 | 20 |