Year end stat round-up extravaganza!

First: December goodies.

368 reviews (+241% from last month)
Average rating: 3.72 stars (+2.4%)
Most popular book: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, and Kulti by Mariana Zapata (4 reviews; 4.00 and 5.00 avg, respectively)
Most popular author: Madeleine L’Engle and Tana French (5 reviews; 4.20 and 4.60 avg, respectively)
Most reviews: NTE (congratulations!; 42 reviews)
Fiction: 120 reviews (+253%)
Nonfiction: 65 reviews (+51%)
Uncategorized: 2 reviews (same as last month)
Most popular genre: Fantasy (80 reviews)
Male authors: 127 (219%)
Female authors: 225 (+346%)
Oldest book read this month: Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
Books from 2016: 112 (30.4% of total)
Books from the last 10 years: 277 (75.3%)
Most popular author countries: United States (48.9%), Great Britain (13%), and Canada (2.99%); foreign language (2.7%)
Avg. Goodreads rating: 3.98 stars
Avg. Goodreads vote totals: 60,168
Avg. page count: 328
Average author age: 45.
Day of the week with most reviews: Saturday (100)

Reviewer averages (minimum of 5 reviews):
alwaysanswerb – 3.50 stars, 429 pages, 11 reviews
badkittyuno – 3.47 stars, 318 pages, 19 reviews
bonnie – 4.08 stars, 227 pages, 39 reviews
Caitlin_D – 3.67 stars, 338 pages, 9 reviews
CoffeeShopReader – 3.64 stars, 358 pages, 14 reviews
Ellepkay – 4.00 stars, 388 pages, 5 reviews
emmalita – 3.71 stars, 307 pages, 7 reviews
faintingviolet – 3.67 stars, 391 pages, 9 reviews
ingres77 – 3.63 stars, 440 pages, 12 reviews
jeverett15 – 3.29 stars, 242 pages, 8 reviews
Malin – 3.53 stars, 376 pages, 36 reviews
narfna – 3.98 stars, 387 pages, 27 reviews
NTE – 4.00 stars, 175 pages, 42 reviews
Sophia – 3.78 stars, 314 pages, 9 reviews
teresaelectro – 3.63 stars, 422 pages, 9 reviews
The Chancellor – 3.43 stars, 324 pages, 14 reviews
xoxoxoe –  stars, pages,  reviews
yesknopemaybe – 3.5 stars, 387 pages, 20 reviews

Our monthly review breakdown:
Jan – 393
Feb – 365
Mar – 312
Apr – 278
May – 275
June – 252
July – 298
August – 318
September -226
October – 213
November – 153
December – 368
Yearly total: 3,451 reviews, 3.64 stars, more than 1,000,000 pages

The average CBR8 book:
Published in 2004, had 337 pages, was given 3.64 stars by us and 3.95 stars on Goodreads, and was written by a 44 year old American woman.

The author breakdown by nationality:
Afghanistan – 1 (5.00)
Algeria – 2 (5.00)
Australia – 74 (3.86)
Austria – 5 (4.20)
Barbados – 1 (4.00)
Belgium – 3 (3.50)
Brazil – 2 (3.50)
Cameroon – 1 (4.00)
Canada – 107 (3.86)
China – 8 (3.75)
Croatia – 1 (3.00)
Cuba – 1 (4.00)
Czech Republic – 2 (4.50)
Denmark – 2 (2.00)
Dominican Republic – 1 (4.00)
Egypt – 2 (4.00)
England – 347 (3.69)
Fiji – 3 (2.33)
France – 12 (3.46)
Germany – 7 (2.83)
Ghana – 4 (4.75)
Haiti – 2 (3.75)
Hungary – 1 (5.00)
Iceland – 1 (4.00)
India – 17 (2.63)
Iran – 13 (4.17)
Ireland – 41 (3.98)
Israel – 16 (4.25)
Italy – 9 (4.75)
Jamaica – 7 (4.14)
Japan – 19 (4.00)
Malawi-  1 (unrated)
Malaysia – 4 (3.75)
Mauritania – 1 (5.00)
Mexico – 4 (3.50)
Morocco – 1 (5.00)
Netherlands – 5 (3.50)
New Zealand – 20 (3.80)
Nigeria – 8 (4.50)
North Korea – 1 (4.50)
Norway – 3 (3.50)
Pakistan – 3 (4.33)
Peru – 8 (4.38)
Philippines – 6 (3.50)
Poland – 2 (4.00)
Russia – 22 (3.76)
Scotland – 25 (3.50)
Sierra Leone – 1 (5.00)
Singapore – 6 (2.83)
South Africa – 3 (3.67)
South Korea – 4 (3.75)
Spain – 1 (4.00)
Sweden – 17 (3.56)
Switzerland – 1 (4.00)
Taiwan – 2 (3.50)
Trinidad and Tobago – 1 (4.00)
Turkey – 2 (2.50)
Uganda – 1 (3.00)
Ukraine – 2 (4.50)
United States – 1,973 (3.61)
Venezuela – 1 (4.00)
Vietnam – 3 (4.33)
Wales – 20 (3.44)
Zimbabwe – 14 (3.81)
unknown – 577 (3.56)

Reviewers
There were 29 Cannonballs this year; 7 of whom got double Cannonballs. Three achieved the rarefied air of the triple Cannonball (among them bonnie and narfna). And our CBR8 winner was badkittyuno, who not only reached the quintuple Cannonball, but also set the all time record with 263 reviews (beating her previous record, set last year)!!

badkittyuno – 263 reviews, 3.58 avg rating, 322 avg pages
narfna – 172 / 3.86 / 367
bonnie – 156 / 3.77 /367
Malin – 135 / 3.78 /318
ingres77 – 110 / 4.05 /339
melanir – 108 / 3.27 /353
Caitlin_D – 106 / 3.20 /316
alwaysanswerb – 101 / 3.77 /355
faintingviolet – 84 / 3.57 /315
yesknopemaybe – 83 / 3.74 /346
Lollygagger – 73 / 3.66 /292
expandingbookshelf – 71 / 3.22 /348
Mrs. Julien – 66 / 2.57 /263
Beth Ellen – 62 / 3.41 /376
Sophia – 58 / 3.65 /305
The Chancellor – 58 / 3.77 /291
ElCicco – 55 / 4.48 /301
scootsa1000 – 55 / 3.44 /423
borisanne – 54 / 4.30 /434
Ellepkay – 54 / 3.58 /315
The Mama – 54 / 3.21 /350
Andrea Krieter – 53 / 4.01 /383
baxlala – 52 / 3.80 /415
Blingle Bells – 52 / 3.58 /324
CoffeeShopReader – 52 / 3.53 /402
Ellesfena – 52 / 3.45 /342
jeverett15 – 52 / 3.11 /299
kfishgirl – 52 / 4.33 /340
NTE – 52 / 3.92 /176

The CBR database currently contains over 11,600 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 78% of these books, have the sex info on 96% of the authors, and the nationality of over 73% of the authors.

I’m still, of course, 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).

If anyone has suggestions for what else they want to see in the monthly stat round-up, just let me know. I’ve temporarily put the brakes on the Google Docs file for community edit.

If there’s something you want to know about the yearly information, just ask in the comments.