Oil! vs XPD: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Motion picture industry in fiction, Motion picture industry, Fiction
Oil!
Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what The Jungle did for Chicago's meat-packing factories. In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing…
1 film adaptation
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XPD
“A stunning spy story… incomparable.” – The GuardianIt’s 1979, and a group of former SS officers are devising a plan to seize power in West Germany. XPD is a brilliant novel constructed around a supposition that…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Oil! has the widest readership — 7707 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Oil! | XPD | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (7707) | 3.8 (2304) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (15) | 3.3 (6) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (21) | — |
Reception
| Oil! | XPD | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 7707 | 2304 |
| Editions | 58 | 31 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 17475 | 797 |
| Reading it now | 925 | 79 |
| Written reviews | 947 | 75 |
| Wikipedia attention | 9144 | 272 |
| Pages | 535 | 450 |