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!
February stats:
431 reviews (last Feb. saw 365 reviews, which was a then-record)
Average rating: 3.57 stars (Jan: 3.56)
Most popular book: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (5 reviews, 4.13 average)
Most popular author: Michael Connelly (12 reviews; 3.64 avg)
Most reviews: Classic (congratulations on 46 reviews! I think that’s a new record.)
Fiction: 369 reviews (Jan: 409)
Nonfiction: 61 reviews (Jan: 91)
Uncategorized: 3 reviews (Jan: 3)
Most popular genres: Fantasy (83 reviews), Romance (82), Mystery (61)
Male authors: 169 (Jan: 192)
Female authors: 259 (Jan: 299)
Oldest book read this month: Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Books from 2017: 38 (Jan: 17)
Books from the last 10 years: 307 (Jan: 360)
Most common languages: English (95.6%), French (1.2%), Japanese (0.9%)
Avg. Goodreads rating: 3.96 stars
Avg. Goodreads vote totals: 70,925
Avg. page count: 321
Average author age: 46.
Reviewer averages (minimum of 10 reviews):
badkittyuno (20 reviews, 3.30 stars, 322 pages)
bonnie (12 reviews, 3.67 stars, 227 pages)
Classic (46 reviews, 3.64 stars, 315 pages)
emmalita (11 reviews, 3.73 stars, 267 pages)
ingres77 (10 reviews, 3.55 stars, 419 pages)
kella (10 reviews, 4.70 stars, 354 pages)
narfna (13 reviews, 3.42 stars, 441 pages)
sarah_jwh (15 reviewis, 2.87 stars, 361 pages)
vel veeter (40 reviews, 3.48 stars, 236 pages)
Our monthly review breakdown (and leader):
Jan – 502 (vel veeter)
Feb – 431 (Classic)
CBR Database:
13,507 reviews
5,477 individual books reviewed
I have Goodreads data on 76.9% of reviews, sex info on 88.5% of authors, and the nationality on 70.6% 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).
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.
I love these posts!
Love the stats!
…..and I’ve just learned that I’m a bit of a star whore who just gives them up pretty easy apparently. 4.7 average? Yikes. I’ll do better in the future. Lol
Maybe you just read some really good books last month?
These stats are so interesting. Thanks for all your hard work putting it together!
Weirdly, I started doing the database before I started these monthly updates. So I’m just glad other people are getting something out of it.
I will blame February being a short month for my being one book short of ten! You’re a beast for putting these stats together each month!
Last year, I think I was doing monthly averages for users who posted at least 5 reviews. But we’re reviewing so many books, now, that I had to bump it up to 10.
I continue to love the stats, keep at it good sir!
I love these.
Even if it makes me feel crappy that I haven’t posted any reviews!
Thanks for the updates.
You’re welcome.
# of reviews of “new to CBR database” books, maybe?
Oh that could be interesting. Obviously all of the 2017 book are new to CBR but how often do we post reviews on books from 5 or 10 years ago that have gone unreviewed!
I can very easily do that. I don’t have the database in front of me, but I’ll start including that in the next round up.