November stat round-up!

To reiterate, for those who didn’t see last months post, I’m not going to be continuing the stat updates in this manner next year. It’s simply become too time-consuming for me. I will still be maintaining the database (which I will make public), but I’m going to be limiting my updates in either scale or frequency (which has yet to be decided). Much as I enjoy doing this, I simply don’t have the time.

Sorry, everyone.

On with the stats!

November stats:
217 reviews (Last month: 251)
Average rating: 3.71 stars (Last month: 3.59)
Most popular book: Artemis by Andy Weir (3 reviews, 4.50 average)
Most popular author: Deanna Raybourn (5 reviews, 3.20 average)
Most reviews: vel veeter (congratulations on 32 reviews!)
Fiction: 163 reviews (Last month: 185)
Nonfiction: 40 reviews (Last month: 62)
Uncategorized: 4 reviews (Last month: 5)
Most popular genres: Fantasy (31 reviews), Young Adult (12) Science Fiction (27), Romance (15), Mystery (23), Memoir (24), Graphic Novel (15), History (3)
Male authors: 91 (Last month: 88)
Female authors: 118 (Last month: 154)
Oldest book read this month: Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (1598)
Books from 2017: 57 (Last month: 65)
Books from the last 10 years: 151 (Last month: 185)
Most common languages: English (89.4%), Japanese (1.4%)
Avg. Goodreads rating: 4.00 stars
Avg. Goodreads vote totals: 50,639
Avg. page count: 337
Longest book: Oathbreaker by Brandon Sanderson (1,243 pages)
Average author age: 45
Youngest author: Malala Yousafzai (15 years old)
Oldest author: Pablo Neruda (91)
Books read for the first time: 107 (Last month: 132)
Book with the most CBR reviews: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (40 reviews)
Most popular book by Goodreads reviews: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (1.6m+ votes)
Total pages read: 70,000+ (Last month: 73,000+)

Top 10 Reviewers averages:
vel veeter (32 reviews, 3.93 stars, 386 pages, year 1980)
bonnie (24 reviews, 3.70 stars, 378 pages, year 1999)
Caitlin_D (13 reviews, 3.53 stars, 290 pages, year 2012)
narfna (13 reviews, 4.00 stars, 354 pages, year 2008)
Lollygagger (12 reviews, 3.67 stars, 290 pages, year 2011)
Malin (9 reviews, 3.83 stars, 284 pages, year 2006)
Mikki Blu (9 reviews, 2.67 stars, 280 pages, year 2011)
emmalita (8 reviews, 3.50 stars, 334 pages, year 2010)
faintingviolet (7 reviews, 4.71 stars, 332 pages, year 2011)
scootsa1000 (7 reviews, 2.43 stars, 348 pages, year 2017)

Our monthly review breakdown (and leader):
Jan – 502 (vel veeter)
Feb – 431 (Classic)
Mar – 446 (vel veeter)
Apr – 392 (vel veeter)
May – 280 (vel veeter)
June – 283 (vel veeter)
July – 337 (vel veeter)
Aug – 227 (vel veeter)
Sep – 245 (vel veeter)
Oct – 251 (vel veeter)
Nov – 217 (vel veeter)

CBR Database:
17,066 reviews*
9,680  individual books reviewed

Top 16 Reviewers of All Time: (italics and bold for those who have been active recently, plum is someone who moved up this month)
1. Malin (959)**
2. badkittyuno (937)
3. narfna (747)
4. bonnie (705)
5. Jen K (523)
6. vel veeter (464)
7. Sophia (455)
8. alwaysanswerb (410)
9. Mrs. Julien (409)
10. faintingviolet (399)
11. scootsa1000 (384)
12. Caitlin_D (377)
13. Valyruh (364)
14. Travis_J_Smith (362)
15. Lollygagger (342)

Just outside the top 15: Caitlin (329), ElCicco (319) and emmalita (258)

I have Goodreads data on 86% of reviews, sex info on 97% of authors, and the nationality on 82% of authors.

I’m still, of course, in the process of going back through CBR3-5, 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 think I’ve got the total review counts for CBR4-9 (though I haven’t logged each review yet), and I’ve got most of CBR3 done. So my all time ranking is, I think, fairly accurate. Big changes to look forward to: badkittyuno might catch Malin this year (nearly 30 reviews in October!), bonnie and narfna are racing for 3rd on the all-time list, could vel veeter crack the top 5 in his first year?!, and Caitlin, Lollygagger, and ElCicco are in a race for who is going to round out the top 15! (Lollygagger leapfrogged Caitlin this month).

*My tentative user totals for CBR1-9 show that nearly 25k reviews have been written by the community to help raise money to fight cancer. I’ve catalogued roughly 69% of our reviews.
**Malin was gracious enough to go back through her blog and make it easier to search and count her reviews. I noticed a discrepancy in my counts compared to hers. I haven’t had the time to update her career review total – but I will. And I do appreciate all the hard work she put into helping us out in this.