All the way back in 2009-10, CBR2 saw 103 come together to review 1,381 books. Through the end of April, 2017, we’ve reviewed 1,7771 books.
For CBR6, we didn’t reach 1,700 reviews until July. In both CBR7 and 8 we reached it in June. We are having a banner year.
On with the stats!
April stats:
392 reviews (April 2016 saw 278 reviews)
Average rating: 3.69 stars (Feb: 3.61)
Most popular book: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (4 reviews, 4.50 average)
Most popular author: Lemony Snicket (11 reviews, 4.00 average)
Most reviews: vel veeter (congratulations on 57 reviews! That makes two consecutive cannonball months!)
Fiction: 303 reviews (Mar: 355)
Nonfiction: 87 reviews (Mar: 86)
Uncategorized: 8 reviews (Mar: 8)
Most popular genres: Fantasy (72 reviews), Young Adult (44) Science Fiction (34), Romance (33), Mystery (32), Memoir (32), Graphic Novel (32)
Male authors: 160 (Mar: 126)
Female authors: 221 (Mar: 309)
Oldest book read this month: The Book of Genesis (~500 BCE)
Books from 2017: 48 (Mar: 53)
Books from the last 10 years: 263 (Mar: 315)
Most common languages: English (91%), Swedish (1.0%)
Avg. Goodreads rating: 3.96 stars
Avg. Goodreads vote totals: 65,913
Avg. page count: 307
Longest book: Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
Average author age: 44.
Youngest author: Mary McLane and Mary Shelly (both 21 years old)
Oldest author: Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last (76)
Books read for the first time: 190 (Mar: 224)
Book with the most CBR reviews: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (35 reviews)
Most popular book by Goodreads ratings: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
Total pages read: 117,000+ (Mar: 136,000+)
Top 10 Reviewers averages:
vel veeter (57 reviews, 3.79 stars, 245 pages)
badkittyuno (31 reviews, 3.65 stars, 331 pages)
bonnie (18 reviews, 3.83 stars, 236 pages)
borisanne (14 reviews, 4.21 stars, 308 pages)
Caitlin_D (13 reviews, 3.92 stars, 334 pages)
Lollygagger (13 reviews, 3.54 stars, 267 pages)
Mikki Blu (11 reviews, 3.27 stars, 318 pages)
alwaysanswerb (10 reviews, 3.05 stars, 236 pages)
ingres77 (10 reviews, 3.75 stars, 367 pages)
melanir (10 reviews, 3.91 stars, 242 pages)
Our monthly review breakdown (and leader):
Jan – 502 (vel veeter)
Feb – 431 (Classic)
Mar – 446 (vel veeter)
Apr – 392 (vel veeter)
CBR Database:
19,788 reviews
8,321 individual books reviewed
Top Reviewers of All Time:
Malin (888)
badkittyuno (867)
narfna (677)
bonnie (636)
faintingviolet (372)
janniethestrange (350)
I have Goodreads data on 61% of reviews, sex info on 70% of authors, and the nationality on 57% of authors (not sure what happened, by my math was seriously off last month. Or it’s off this month).
I’m still, of course, in the process of going back through CBR3, 4, and 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’ve s started tracking the number of “career” reviews for our long term regulars. Malin (with us since CBR2, if I’m not mistaken) is the all-time leader. I’m working my way through the long term Cannonballers, so my all-time ranking isn’t close to comprehensive. I’m working on it, though.
If anyone has suggestions for what else they want to see in the monthly stat round-up, just let me know. I’ve temporarily put the brakes on the Google Docs file for community edit.