Last year was a great year, and I had lots of fun. I marked a person best for books read, and I upped my participation here by starting the database. I don’t know if I’ll read as many books as I did last year, but I plan on continuing being the resident stat guru.
And we’ve had an incredibly prolific month! It was hard keeping pace with your reviews.
Anyway, on with the stats!
January stats:
502 reviews (a record! The previous record was January 2014, with 458)
Average rating: 3.56 stars
Most popular book: Kulti (5 reviews, 3.8 average)
Most popular author: Stephen King (7 reviews; 3.83 avg)
Most reviews: vel veeter (congratulations on 24 reviews! We begin a new year by crowning a new leader!)
Fiction: 409 reviews
Nonfiction: 91 reviews
Uncategorized: 3 reviews
Most popular genre: Fantasy (89 reviews)
Male authors: 192
Female authors: 299
Oldest book read this month: Great Expectations (1860)
Books from 2017: 17
Books from the last 10 years: 360
Most common languages: English (93%), Japanese (0.6%), Danish (0.4%)
Avg. Goodreads rating: 3.95 stars
Avg. Goodreads vote totals: 52,945
Avg. page count: 356
Average author age: 48.
Reviewer averages (minimum of 10 reviews):
badkittyuno (22 reviews, 3.75 stars, 366 pages)
Beth Ellen (11 reviews, 3.45 stars, 328 pages)
Caitlin_D (14 reviews, 3.28 stars, 285 pages)
Classic (23 reviews, 3.09 stars, 388 pages)
Ealbrecht (14 reviews, –, 305 pages)
emmalita (20 reviews, 3.53 stars, 279 pages)
Emperor Cupcakes (15 reviews, 2.79 stars, 342 pages)
vel veeter (24 reviews, 3.75 stars, 277 pages)
Our monthly review breakdown:
Jan – 502
The CBR database currently contains over 13,000 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 79% of these books, have the sex info on 95% of authors, and the nationality of 74% of 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). I’m working on uploading incomplete Cannonballs to a Google Docs for anyone who wants to help.
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.
Wow! Great!
I decided to post reviews here the day after I post them elsewhere (Booklikes, Goodreads, and my personal blog). I just couldn’t keep up with reviews at four sites.
I am loving the community here and really enjoy the reviews!
I really like the community here, too. It’s diverse, so there’s always lots of different stuff being read, but it’s small enough for there to be familiarity.
I love these round ups.
But it also reminds me that I have several reviews I need to post.
I’m now two reviews behind, but I’ll probably finish another book tomorrow.
Vel Veeter and Classic are dueling for the top of the Leaderboard these days, a big welcome to both of you. 502 reviews!!?? Amazing! How does that compare to last year?
I didn’t see any of these comments for some reason.
I think there were about 360 last year. I’ll double check tonight.
Yes I just changed something in the commenting system, so you should see these now.
January totals:
CBR6 – 458
CBR7 – 404
CBR8 – 393
CBR9 – 502
I think I’ll start including this in my monthly updates, to show how we’ve done relative to previous years.
I had been so excited that I had 7 reviews and therefore made the 5 review cut off for averages, and you boosted it to 10! I’ll just have to go crunch my own numbers. :) Thank you so much for doing all of this, and we are off to a blistering pace.
Lol, sorry. There were so many with more than 5 reviews, I didn’t have the time to do everyone.
I’ll give myself more time next month, promise.
Average rating: 3.86 stars
Average pagecount: 388
You are too kind, and thank you. I’ve been in one of those work 6 take one off, work six more schedules of late and haven’t gotten to tackle my own stats let alone read and review. I’m so behind on reading other people’s reviews that I am back on page 7 of the site (since I must read in publication order like the crazy person I am).
People have really stepped it up this year. It’s crazytown bananapants. Don’t know if I will be able to catch up!
I don’t think I will, either. I’m way off my pace last year.
It’ll be interesting to see if we’re able to keep this up throughout the year. I hope so, though it’ll make my keeping up with the database difficult.
I can’t believe I wrote 11 reviews in a month! Woo hoo! This will never happen again though. Stupid life. Not enough time to read except over the holidays.
Well, you got 9 all the way back in July of 2015, and 11 in August of last year. But even in non-holiday months you still have a pretty good output (quite a few 6s and 7s).
Nice! I run statistics on my reading (I’ve been keeping a decently intense spreadsheet for years), but in order to keep the pressure reasonable I only track yearly reading totals. I do delight in someone else who loves book statistics as much as I do!
I’m always surprised at how many people do this kind of thing.
I started by tracking the movies I watched. As you can imagine, that database quickly got out of hand (box office info, wrtier/director/cinematographer/etc, runtime, number of times I’ve seen the movie…..
So doing this was only natural, I guess. Lol
I almost missed the round up! I had to seek you out igress when I realized it was almost 2 weeks into February and I didn’t remember seeing the post.
Is there a way to keep the round up at the top of the page for a few days like we did for the book club post? Everyone posts so much so quickly that even people who come every day (sometimes more than once) might miss it
I think that’s an excellent idea!
I do too, and I’ll be sure to make the February recap stays up at the top for a few days.