BSFA short list on Goodreads and LibraryThing

Jan. 18th, 2013 at 5:00 PM

	Goodreads		Librarything
	number	average	number	average
2312, Kim Stanley Robinson	1445	3.41	267	3.65
Dark Eden, Chris Beckett	138	4.09	30	4.50
Intrusion, Ken MacLeod	115	3.40	64	3.97
Jack Glass, Adam Roberts	79	3.89	18	5
Empty Space: a Haunting by M. John Harrison	52	4.19	31	3.5

NB that only one Librarything user has rated either of the last two, which is why those numbers are italicised.

Full shortlist (including short fiction, art and non-fiction) is here.

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ninebelow

Jan. 19th, 2013 09:29 am (UTC)

Interesting to see Beckett with a higher Goodreads number than his more popular and well established peers.

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nwhyte

Jan. 19th, 2013 07:16 pm (UTC)

Yes, indeed. Though he is second last on LibraryThing. I do not know what to make of that.

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nwhyte

Jan. 19th, 2013 07:15 pm (UTC)

Thank you for citing me!

I hope that it goes without saying that the only thing the GoodReads and LibraryThing stats indicate is the views of GoodReads and LibraryThing users!

Having said that, I think they are a very very rough indication of the relative depths of penetration of each book into wider bookbuying culture.

I might run the numbers again on last year's Hugo nominees in April, a year after the announcement was made. I bet you will have made the biggest proportionate gain of any of them (with I suppose the possible exception of A Dance With Dragons).

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