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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.