The Kingdom vs Wild Swans: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
The Kingdom
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo must use their instinct for treasure-hunting to find a missing person in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. The Fargos are used to hunting for fortune, not…
1 film adaptation
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Wild Swans
"Jung Chang vividly evokes China's sights, sounds, and smells to create what must be one of the grimmest, yet most perceptive accounts of growing up middle-class in the maelstrom that has swept China since the 1920s." -…
The verdict
- Readers rate Wild Swans highest: Wild Swans 4.3 · The Kingdom 4.0.
- The Kingdom is the quickest read — about 7 hours vs 13 for Wild Swans.
- Wild Swans has the widest readership — 128589 ratings behind its score.
- Wild Swans runs the darker storyline; The Kingdom stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Kingdom | Wild Swans | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (528) | 4.3 (128589) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (18) | 4.3 (104) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (825) | 4.5 (187) |
Reception
| The Kingdom | Wild Swans | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 825 | 128589 |
| Editions | 14 | 72 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 3796 | 161756 |
| Reading it now | — | 9161 |
| Written reviews | 528 | 8970 |
| Wikipedia attention | 443 | 5578 |
| Pages | 404 | 729 |