Per request, I’ve started a Google spreadsheet that can be edited by anyone who follows this link. So far, I’ve only uploaded CBR8, but I’ll go back and add CBR6 and CBR7. I’m used to Excel, and I haven’t really played around with Google spreadsheets, but the document can be sorted and edited without much trouble (I think). If any changes are made, please make some notation in the first column so that I can update the master database. So feel free to participate as much (or little) as you like.
On with the stats!
August stats:
227 reviews (Last month: 337)
Average rating: 3.69 stars (Last month: 3.65)
Most popular book: A Man Called Ove, An Extraordinary Union, Geekerella, The Ghost Bride, Unfinished: A Graphic Novel of Marilyn Monroe, Uprooted, The Woman in Cabin 10 (each reviewed twice)
Most popular author: Stephen King (9 reviews, 4.22 average)
Most reviews: vel veeter (congratulations on 35 reviews!)
Fiction: 166 reviews (Last month: 267)
Nonfiction: 50 reviews (Last month: 74)
Uncategorized: 5 reviews (Last month: 2)
Most popular genres: Fantasy (43 reviews), Young Adult (19) Science Fiction (10), Romance (18), Mystery (35), Memoir (18), Graphic Novel (20), History (8)
Male authors: 98 (Last month: 143)
Female authors: 128 (Last month: 184)
Oldest book read this month: Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Books from 2017: 44 (Last month: 52)
Books from the last 10 years: 162 (Last month: 220)
Most common languages: English (96.7%), Swedish (0.95%), French (0.95%)
Avg. Goodreads rating: 3.97 stars
Avg. Goodreads vote totals: 58,768
Avg. page count: 344
Longest book: A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin
Average author age: 44
Youngest author: Carson McCullers (23 years old)
Oldest author: Margaret Atwood (76)
Books read for the first time: 116 (Last month: 175)
Book with the most CBR reviews: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (42 reviews)
Most popular book by Goodreads reviews: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Total pages read: 75,000+ (Last month: 105,000+)
Top 10 Reviewers averages:
vel veeter (35 reviews, 3.82 stars, 255 pages, year 1981)
narfna (17 reviews, 3.59 stars, 362 pages, year 2011)
bonnie (13 reviews, 3.92 stars, 306 pages, year 1999)
Caitlin_D (12 reviews, 3.33 stars, 347 pages, year 2014)
Halbs (11 reviews, 3.27 stars, 213 pages, year 2010)
ingres77 (11 reviews, 4.00 stars, 631 pages, year 2006)
Lollygagger (10 reviews, 3.70 stars, 228 pages, year 2012)
emmalita (7 reviews, 3.86 stars, 352 pages, year 2003)
melanir (7reviews, 2.43 stars, 304 pages, year 2008)
Mikki Blu (6 reviews, 2.83 stars, 334 pages, year 2014)
octothorp (6 reviews, 3.40 stars, 331 pages, year 1996)
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)
CBR Database:
16,305 reviews*
9,294 individual books reviewed
Top 16 Reviewers of All Time: (italics and bold for those who have been active recently)
1. Malin (924)**
2. badkittyuno (906)
3. narfna (707)
4. bonnie (681)
5. Jen K (523)
6. Sophia (448)
7. alwaysanswerb (410)
8. Mrs. Julien (401)
9. faintingviolet (378)
10. scootsa1000 (373)
11. Valyruh (364)
12. vel veeter (355)
13. Travis_J_Smith (353)
14. Caitlin_D (336)
15. Caitlin (327)
Just outside the top 15: Lollygagger (318) and ElCicco (304)
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, bonnie and narfna are racing for 3rd on the all-time list, vel veeter may crack the top 10 in his first year (he jumped into the top 15 last month, and then leapfrogged to #11), and both Caitlin and Caitlin_D haves a chance of breaking in to the top 10, as well.
If anyone has suggestions for what else they want to see in the monthly stat round-up, just let me know.
*My user totals for CBR1-9 show that approximately 24,200 reviews have been written by the community to help raise money to fight cancer. So I’ve catalogued roughly 68% 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.
I hate to be a brat since you volunteer for this monumental task but where do you get your numbers from? I have my count as 12 for August.
American Heiress, Dropped Names, 11/22/63, Poor Unfortunate Soul, Commonwealth, Spaceman, Jackie’s Girl, Piece of the World, Insult & Curse Book, Into the Water, Stories I’d Tell in Bars and Exit, Pursued by a Bear.
Nothing bratty at all! If you see any discrepancies – please point them out to me. I’m usually throwing the round-up together at the last minute (and around 2 in the morning), so it’s not at all unheard of for me to miss something.
Not sure how it happened. In the main database, I don’t have Insult & Curse Book. When I isolated just August 2017, I also left out Piece of the World and Into the Water from your total.
When you review multiple books in the same post, be sure to indicate that in the book title section of the review. That’s what I go by when I’m inputting the reviews into the database. For the Insult and Curse Book, you must’ve forgotten to do that – so I only saw the Into the Water review.
Thanks for the heads up! I really do appreciate you letting me know. I’ve fixed the mistake.
Good to know, although I rarely review more than one book at a time. Thanks for updating it :)