BSFA Long List - Goodreads/LibraryThing stats
The BSFA long list is out. As I'm this year's Hugo Administrator, I will make no comment here beyond posting the stats. Books listed by (geometric) average of GR/LT rating. The top ten in each column are in bold.
Goodreads
LibraryThing
owners
av rating
owners
av rating
Naomi Novik
Spinning Silver
105622
4.31
700
4.27
Stuart Turton
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
108267
4.03
552
3.87
Pierce Brown
Iron Gold
88775
4.25
286
3.94
RF Kuang
The Poppy War
69835
4.06
339
3.96
Becky Chambers
Record of a Spaceborn Few
27709
4.2
312
4.21
Ling Ma
Severance
37440
3.9
201
3.97
Mary Robinette Kowal
The Calculating Stars
24374
4.24
263
4.12
Tade Thompson
Rosewater
18267
3.89
168
3.88
Sam J Miller
Blackfish City
17201
3.61
170
3.37
Tasha Suri
Empire of Sand
15979
3.93
105
3.87
Patrick Ness
And the Ocean Was Our Sky
13513
3.68
115
3.45
Peter Watts
The Freeze-Frame Revolution
9556
4.04
110
3.98
Yoon Ha Lee
Revenant Gun
6624
4.22
136
4.16
Alastair Reynolds
Elysium Fire
7101
4.06
110
3.72
Sam Hawke
City of Lies
7656
3.9
69
3.88
Gareth L Powell
Embers of War
4205
4.02
61
3.62
Emma Newman
Before Mars
3265
4.09
69
4.08
T Kingfisher
The Wonder Engine
2359
4.37
54
4.18
Audrey Schulman
Theory of Bastards
2824
4.11
36
4
Aliette de Bodard
In the Vanishers’ Palace
2187
4.02
37
4.08
Roger Levy
The Rig
1626
3.84
27
4.25
Rich Larson
Annex
1795
3.71
24
3.67
Ed McDonald
Ravencry
1936
4.31
21
3.83
EJ Swift
Paris Adrift
1754
3.55
23
3.1
Derek Künsken
The Quantum Magician
1372
4.15
28
3.9
James Smythe
I Still Dream
1550
4.01
21
4.5
Malka Older
State Tectonics
993
4.15
24
3.63
RJ Barker
Blood of Assassins
1531
4.17
13
3.75
Juno Dawson
Doctor Who: The Good Doctor
591
4.01
20
5
Jen Williams
The Bitter Twins
913
4.32
10
4.88
Dave Hutchinson
Europe at Dawn
261
4.25
30
4.17
Anna Stephens
Darksoul
640
4.42
10
-
Rachel Armstrong
Origamy
187
3.68
28
1.9
EM Brown
Buying Time
423
3.77
12
3.5
Christopher Priest
An American Story
323
3.65
14
3.75
Simon Ings
The Smoke
429
3.89
10
3.5
Daniel Godfrey
The Synapse Sequence
318
3.73
7
3
Adam Roberts
By the Pricking of Her Thumb
195
3.9
11
4.5
Dominic Dulley
Shattermoon
175
3.9
7
-
Rachel Fellman
The Breath of the Sun
115
4.45
5
-
Andrew Crumey
The Great Chain Of Unbeing
52
3.77
5
4.5
Aliya Whiteley
The Loosening Skin
136
4.3
1
-
Andrew Bannister
Stone Clock
34
4.1
2
4
Berit Ellingsen
Now We Can See the Moon
39
4.63
1
-
Elizabeth Priest
Concrete Faery
16
4
1
-
Last year's finalists were 3rd, 9th, 27th and 35th out of 48; the previous year's finalists similarly ranked 9th, 23rd, 26th, 28th and 29th out of 34., and the 2015 finalists were 18th, 21st, 26th, 40th and 43rd out of 56. So this isn't a very good guide to who will get shortlisted or win, but it is an indication of wider reading tastes.
Goodreads
LibraryThing
owners
av rating
owners
av rating
Naomi Novik
Spinning Silver
105622
4.31
700
4.27
Stuart Turton
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
108267
4.03
552
3.87
Pierce Brown
Iron Gold
88775
4.25
286
3.94
RF Kuang
The Poppy War
69835
4.06
339
3.96
Becky Chambers
Record of a Spaceborn Few
27709
4.2
312
4.21
Ling Ma
Severance
37440
3.9
201
3.97
Mary Robinette Kowal
The Calculating Stars
24374
4.24
263
4.12
Tade Thompson
Rosewater
18267
3.89
168
3.88
Sam J Miller
Blackfish City
17201
3.61
170
3.37
Tasha Suri
Empire of Sand
15979
3.93
105
3.87
Patrick Ness
And the Ocean Was Our Sky
13513
3.68
115
3.45
Peter Watts
The Freeze-Frame Revolution
9556
4.04
110
3.98
Yoon Ha Lee
Revenant Gun
6624
4.22
136
4.16
Alastair Reynolds
Elysium Fire
7101
4.06
110
3.72
Sam Hawke
City of Lies
7656
3.9
69
3.88
Gareth L Powell
Embers of War
4205
4.02
61
3.62
Emma Newman
Before Mars
3265
4.09
69
4.08
T Kingfisher
The Wonder Engine
2359
4.37
54
4.18
Audrey Schulman
Theory of Bastards
2824
4.11
36
4
Aliette de Bodard
In the Vanishers’ Palace
2187
4.02
37
4.08
Roger Levy
The Rig
1626
3.84
27
4.25
Rich Larson
Annex
1795
3.71
24
3.67
Ed McDonald
Ravencry
1936
4.31
21
3.83
EJ Swift
Paris Adrift
1754
3.55
23
3.1
Derek Künsken
The Quantum Magician
1372
4.15
28
3.9
James Smythe
I Still Dream
1550
4.01
21
4.5
Malka Older
State Tectonics
993
4.15
24
3.63
RJ Barker
Blood of Assassins
1531
4.17
13
3.75
Juno Dawson
Doctor Who: The Good Doctor
591
4.01
20
5
Jen Williams
The Bitter Twins
913
4.32
10
4.88
Dave Hutchinson
Europe at Dawn
261
4.25
30
4.17
Anna Stephens
Darksoul
640
4.42
10
-
Rachel Armstrong
Origamy
187
3.68
28
1.9
EM Brown
Buying Time
423
3.77
12
3.5
Christopher Priest
An American Story
323
3.65
14
3.75
Simon Ings
The Smoke
429
3.89
10
3.5
Daniel Godfrey
The Synapse Sequence
318
3.73
7
3
Adam Roberts
By the Pricking of Her Thumb
195
3.9
11
4.5
Dominic Dulley
Shattermoon
175
3.9
7
-
Rachel Fellman
The Breath of the Sun
115
4.45
5
-
Andrew Crumey
The Great Chain Of Unbeing
52
3.77
5
4.5
Aliya Whiteley
The Loosening Skin
136
4.3
1
-
Andrew Bannister
Stone Clock
34
4.1
2
4
Berit Ellingsen
Now We Can See the Moon
39
4.63
1
-
Elizabeth Priest
Concrete Faery
16
4
1
-
Last year's finalists were 3rd, 9th, 27th and 35th out of 48; the previous year's finalists similarly ranked 9th, 23rd, 26th, 28th and 29th out of 34., and the 2015 finalists were 18th, 21st, 26th, 40th and 43rd out of 56. So this isn't a very good guide to who will get shortlisted or win, but it is an indication of wider reading tastes.