August stat round-up!

Okay, I did a good job this month keeping up to date with the Goodreads information on all the reviews. I’ve added the page count for each book.

August stats:
318 reviews (+7% from last month)
Average rating: 3.66 stars (+1.1%)
Most popular book: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (7 reviews; 4.21 avg)
Most popular author: Sherman Alexie (7 reviews)
Most reviews: narfna (congratulations!; 28 reviews)
Fiction: 251 reviews (+2.8%)
Nonfiction: 60 reviews (13.3%)
Uncategorized: 10 reviews (+90%)
Most popular genre: Fantasy (57 reviews; -3.5%)
Male authors: 122 (+8.2%)
Female authors: 180 (+3.4%)
Oldest book read this month: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (1848)
Books from 2016: 76 (+18.4%)
Books from the last 10 years: 247 (77%; same percentage last month)
Most popular author countries: United States (68%), Great Britain (10%), and Canada (4%)
Avg. Goodreads rating: 3.97 stars
Avg. Goodreads vote totals: 55,885
Avg. page count: 333

So far in 2016:
2,488 reviews
Average rating: 3.63 stars
Most popular book: Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis (18 reviews)
Most popular author: JK Rowling/Robert Galbraith (30 reviews)
Most reviews: badkittyuno (171 reviews)
Fiction: 1,974
Nonfiction: 459
Uncategorized: 40
Most popular genres: Romance (530 reviews)
Fantasy (495)
Mystery (288)
Science Fiction (270)
Young Adult (185)
Biography/memoir (171)
Suspense (160)
Graphic Novel (110)

Our monthly review breakdown:
Jan – 393
Feb – 365
Mar – 312
Apr – 278
May – 275
June – 252
July – 298
August – 318

We’re still mostly reading female authors, and our favorite genres are consistently romance and fantasy, followed by science fiction and mystery.

Our five most read authors of all time are:
Stephen King (184 reviews; 3.59 avg)
Rainbow Rowell (112; 4.26)
JK Rowling (111; 4.11)
Courtney Milan (85; 4.00)
Jim Butcher (72; 4.03)
Neil Gaiman (72: 4.07)

Our five most read books (all time) are:
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (45 reviews; 3.75 avg)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (35; 4.46)
Ready Player One by Andy Weir (33; 4.33)
The Martian by Andy Weir (31; 4.53)
The Fault in Our Stars (27; 4.16)
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (26; 3.68)
Divergent by Veronica Roth (26; 3.36)
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (25; 4.52)
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (22; 3.54)
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (22; 4.50)

The CBR database currently contains over 9,700 reviews for I don’t know how many individual books and authors. Maybe, one day, when I get caught up I’ll try to figure that out. I’ve input Goodreads info on almost 5,000 of these books, have the sex info on over 8,900 authors, and the country information on less than 4,000.

I’m still in the process of going back through CBR3, 4, and 5, along with various blogs for CBR1 and 2, not to mention the Pajiba reviews section of the mothership (though, I’ve only done a handful). I’ve set up a Google Docs that can be edited by anyone, in case any of you want to throw your hat in the ring and help with some of the older stuff. Don’t feel obligated, however. I know some of you have volunteered to help, so I thought I’d put that out there. I’m new to the whole “publishing a database for other people to edit” thing. If you want to assist (even if it’s only to add one book), I think I’ll need your email to give you permission. Or I’ve done the whole thing wrong and anyone can edit to their hearts content. I’ve just uploaded the first 5 Cannonballs, to make the database more manageable.

If anyone has suggestions for what else they want to see in the monthly stat round-up, just let me know.