The Border Empire vs The Color Purple: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Historical Fiction, Fiction
The Border Empire
Wes Stone was a lawman—until the Sandlin gang gunned down his legendary father. Now, he's giving up his badge for vengeance...
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate The Color Purple highest: The Color Purple 4.3 · The Border Empire 4.0.
- The Color Purple has the widest readership — 771062 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| The Border Empire | The Color Purple | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.3 (771062) |
| Hardcover | 3.0 (1) | 4.2 (706) |
| Google Books | — | 4.5 (20) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (115) | 4.5 (998) |
Reception
| The Border Empire | The Color Purple | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 115 | 771062 |
| Editions | 2 | 107 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 830359 |
| Reading it now | — | 22577 |
| Written reviews | — | 33562 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 16368 |
| Pages | 352 | 253 |