My Cat Yugoslavia vs The Jungle: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Emigration and immigration, History, Fiction
My Cat Yugoslavia
"Already an international sensation: a debut novel that tells a love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one…
vs
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which…
Banned book
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Jungle has the widest readership — 157660 ratings behind its score.
- The Jungle runs the darker storyline; My Cat Yugoslavia stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| My Cat Yugoslavia | The Jungle | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.8 (157660) |
| Hardcover | 3.7 (13) | 3.7 (226) |
| Google Books | — | 4.0 (16) |
| Apple Books | 3.5 (6) | 4.0 (182) |
Reception
| My Cat Yugoslavia | The Jungle | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 13 | 157660 |
| Editions | 7 | 673 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 152510 |
| Reading it now | — | 7281 |
| Written reviews | — | 8663 |
| Wikipedia attention | 367 | 33028 |
| Pages | 272 | 222 |