I’m still alive!
Almost three weeks into CBR10, and I’ve finally updated the data for both December and CBR9. This year end post won’t be as…..long as last years, but I think the information is presented better.
As has been established, we’ll be doing something different for CBR10. I’ll be getting some help, and we’ll be updating less often. Hopefully, you won’t enjoy the updates any less, though.
On with the stats!
December stats:
510 reviews (Last month: 217)
Average rating: 3.79 stars (Last month: 3.71)
Most popular book: The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard and Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay (4 reviews, 3.80 and 4.50 average, respectively)
Most popular author: JD Robb (an astounding review by NTE of all 57 stories in the In Death series!)
Most reviews: NTE (It was an incredible month for multiple users (vel veeter, Sophia, and narfna are all stand outs. NTE got 57, however)
Fiction: 391 reviews (Last month: 163)
Nonfiction: 84 reviews (Last month: 40)
Uncategorized: 4 reviews (Last month: 4)
Most popular genres: Fantasy (54 reviews), Young Adult (44) Science Fiction (27), Romance (131), Mystery (80), Memoir (33), Graphic Novel (27), History (10)
Male authors: 177 (Last month: 91)
Female authors: 294 (Last month: 118)
Oldest book read this month: Oroonoko by Aphra Behn (1688)
Books from 2017: 136 (Last month: 57)
Books from the last 10 years: 379 (Last month: 151)
Most common languages: English (84.3%)
Avg. Goodreads rating: 4.03 stars
Avg. Goodreads vote totals: 64,883
Avg. page count: 335
Longest book: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (1,440 pages)
Average author age: 47
Youngest author: Chris Colfer (22 years old)
Oldest author: Harper Lee (89)
Books read for the first time: 266 (Last month: 107)
Book with the most CBR reviews: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (45 reviews)
Most popular book by Goodreads reviews: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling (4.5m+ votes)
Total pages read: 144,000+ (Last month: 73,000+)
Top 10 Reviewers averages:
NTE (57 reviews, 5.00 stars, year 2006)
vel veeter (50 reviews, 3.60 stars, 268 pages, year 1967)
Sophia (46 reviews, 3.60 stars, 308 pages, year 2013)
badkittyuno (42 reviews, 3.90 stars, 332 pages, year 2015)
narfna (32 reviews, 4.20 stars, 465 pages, year 2011)
bonnie (27 reviews, 4.00 stars, 254 pages, year 2007)
Malin (23 reviews, 3.70 stars, 304 pages, year 2013)
The Chancellor (17 reviews, 3.80 stars, 234 pages, year 2000)
borisanne (14 reviews, 4.00 stars, 248 pages, year 2003)
crystalclear (13 reviews, 4.20 stars, 404 pages, year 2011)
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)
Dec – 510 (NTE)
CBR9 Stat overview:
Reviews: 4,146
Fiction: 3,258
Nonfiction: 799
Genres: Fantasy (16%), Romance (14%), Young Adult (9.3%), Science Fiction (8.6%), Memoirs (8.3%), Graphic Novels (5.8%)
Language: English (91.7%), Japanese (0.7%), French (0.5%), Swedish (0.5%)
Total pages read: 1,285,000+
CBR9’s Most prolific reviewers:***
1. vel veeter (513 reviews)
2. badkittyuno (226)
3. bonnie (156)
4. Caitlin_D (142)
5. narfna (134)
6. Malin (128)
7. emmalita (118)
8. Lollygagger (105)
9. Mikki Blu (103)
10. melanir (90)
CBR9’s 10 Most Read Books:
1. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (13 reviews, 4.50 stars)
2. Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman (13 reviews, 3.20 stars)
3. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (12 reviews, 4.10 stars)
4. Pretty Face by Lucy Parker (12 reviews, 4.10 stars)
5. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (12 reviews, 3.60 stars)
6. The Devourers by Indra Das (11 reviews, 2.40 stars)
7. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (10 reviews4.70 stars)
8. Hidden Figures (9 reviews, 4.10 stars)
9. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (9 reviews, 3.10 stars)
10. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (8 reviews, 4.30 stars)
11. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (8 reviews, 4.00 stars)
12. Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham (8 reviews, 3.60 stars)
13. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (8 reviews, 4.10 stars)
CBR9’s 10 Most Read Authors:
1. JD Robb (62 reviews, 4.30 stars)
2. Stephen King (49 reviews, 4.10 stars)
3. JK Rowling (44 reviews, 4.30 stars)
4. Neil Gaiman (36 reviews, 4.20 stars)
5. Margaret Atwood (35 reviews, 3.90 stars)
6. Carrie Fisher (28 reviews, 3.70 stars)
7. Ben Aaronovitch (23 reviews, 4.00 stars)
8. Louise Penny (22 reviews, 4.20 stars)
9. Ursula K Le Guin (22 reviews, 3.60 stars)
10. Agatha Christie (20 reviews, 3.50 stars)
11. Brandon Sanderson (20 reviews, 4.10 stars)
CBR Database:
17,672 reviews*
9,957 individual books reviewed
Annual review totals (CBR2-9):
2010. 1,881
2011. 2,335
2012. 3,138
2013. 3,574
2014. 3,061
2015. 3,837
2016. 3,447
2017. 4,146
Annual participant totals:
2010. 95 (15 cannonballs)
2011. 95 (22)
2012. 141 (33)
2013. 148 (31)
2014. 136 (28)
2015. 109 (31)
2016. 122 (30)
2017. 141 (25)
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 (1,023)**
2. badkittyuno (980)
3. narfna (779)
4. bonnie (732)
5. Jen K (523)
6. vel veeter (513)
7. Sophia (496)
8. alwaysanswerb (410)
9. Mrs. Julien (409)
10. faintingviolet (404)
11. scootsa1000 (388)
12. Caitlin_D (389)
13. Valyruh (364)
14. Travis_J_Smith (362)
15. Lollygagger (350)
Just outside the top 15: Caitlin (335), ElCicco (320) and emmalita (270)
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.
***My review totals may differ slightly from the “official” numbers due to errors I made in updating my data, or errors users make in countering their reviews.
Thanks for this! I look forward to seeing what new form these take in 2018 :)
I can absolutely see why this job is exhausting – you do such a comprehensive job of it. Thank you so much, I always find these posts interesting.
2018 will almost certainly be the year when Badkittyuno finally overtakes me as the top reviewer of all time, as motherhood is already making me read less, before the baby has even arrived. My husband suggested I review every book I read to the baby throughout the year, though, no matter how inane, and if I do that, I may have a chance of competing with some of the heavy-weights after all. :D
Badkitty is bowing out for cbr10 although I totally think books you read to the baby should count
I just wanna crack the Top10! So close! Thanks for all you do Ingres
Oh no!
We all need a break. Hope she’s able to rejoin for CBR 11.
Oh, I hope she’s ok. I can totally see the need to get a break, though, especially with the volumes she’s been reading and reviewing.
We shall see what I do about the children’s books. I can barely write a comment that isn’t about 250 words, so I shouldn’t really have a problem writing about very basic children’s books either. My main worry this year isn’t really that I won’t be able to read (because what else am I going to do when nursing all the time), it’s that I won’t have the time or head space to review. I’ve only signed up for a quarter Cannonball this year, my lowest goal ever.
My wife and I had our kid in my first year (CBR 7). I think I only got 20 something books read that year. For CBR8, it ticked up substantially. I’ve wanted to set a positive example, so I read in while he’s playing.
With badkitty out this year, vel veeter might be the one who passes you.
Yes, that seems extremely likely, considering the amount he read and reviewed last year.
You are a wizard, ingres77! Thanks for all your hard work. I think it’s funny that we doubled our number of reviews in December – all of us scrambling to hit our goals!