Goodreads
LibraryThing

owners
av rating
owners
av rating

Rosewater, by Tade Thompson
22604
3.82
226
3.8

Frankenstein in Baghdad, by Ahmed Saadawi
13710
3.52
249
3.55

Semiosis, by Sue Burke
13517
3.95
179
3.86

Revenant Gun, by Yoon ha Lee
8018
4.2
171
4.08

The Electric State, by Simon Stålenhag
4169
4.41
74
4.3

The Loosening Skin, ( Read more... )

The Arthur C. Clarke Award have released their full submission list, and as usual I have run it through the Goodreads and LibaryThing catalogues, checking the number of owners on each system and the average rating. The list below is raked by geometric average of the number of owners on the two systems. I have bolded the top quartile of each column ( Read more... )

The Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist has been announced, and the popularity of the six books on Goodreads and LibraryThing is as follows:

Goodreads
LibraryThing

owners
av rating
owners
av rating

The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
240219
4.05
1602
4.09

A Closed and Common Orbit, Becky Chambers
15509
4.4
190
4.37

Ninefox Gambit, ( Read more... )

As usual, I've run the books on the Arthur C. Clarke Award submission list through Goodreads and LibraryThing to see how many people have registered copies on each system (NB you have to dig down a level for this on Goodreads) and what the average rating of each book is. They are listed below by (geometric) average number of owners on the two ( Read more... )

I'm late to the party; I was concentrating on other things Tuesday when the Hugo ballot was announced, and on the road yesterday (and have now woken early in nice hotel room). So for instant reactions, you can check out The Guardian reports; Gizmodo; John Scalzi in the LA Times; Scalzi on his own blog, and again; Jim Hines; Abigail Nussbaum; Aaron ( Read more... )

The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2015 shortlist has been announced. For obvious reasons, I'm not going to make further comment, but here are the Goodreads/LibaryThing stats for the six shortlisted novels.

Author
Title
GR owners
GR ave rating
LT owners
LT ave rating

Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven
47349
4.02
1294
4.24

M. R. Carey
The Girl With ( Read more... )

...has now been officially announced and can be found here.

This is my listing of the books using numbers from Goodreads and Librarything, ranked by the geometric mean of ownership on both systems. The top quintile for ownership and user ratings is in bold. The figures may have changed a little in the last couple of days.

( book list )