The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil vs The Dispossessed: Which Should You Read?

The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil J. R. Weil · 1948 ★★★★☆ 4.0 297 pages · ≈ 5 h 30 m · Challenging

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 Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin · 1974 ★★★★☆ 4.3 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Moderate

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the…