Kim vs Ragged Dick: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: Orphans in fiction, Boys, Orphans, History, Fiction

Cover of Kim

Kim Rudyard Kipling · 1901 ★★★★☆ 3.7 284 pages · ≈ 5 h 16 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

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Cover of Ragged Dick

Ragged Dick Horatio Alger, Jr. · 1868 ★★★☆☆ 3.3 138 pages · ≈ 2 h 33 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

The verdict

Readers rate Kim higher: 3.7 vs 3.3 from 40780 votes.
Ragged Dick is the quicker read — about 2 hours vs 5 for Kim.

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