Arthur C. Clarke Award long list – Goodreads / LibraryThing / StoryGraph stats

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award has released the full list of submissions for this year – a record at 134. As usual, I have crunched through the numbers of people who have logged each book on Goodreads, LibraryThing and Storygraph. This is not intended to be predictive of the shortlist or winner – especially for a juried award. But it does show the extent to which the books have penetrated the market. There are three clear leaders, in the same order on each of the three online systems. On the other hand, there were two books submitted which nobody has admitted to owning.

Title and authorGoodreadsLibraryThingStoryGraph
Dungeon Crawler Carl — Matt Dinniman 379,9773,46172,215
Silver Elite — Dani Francis 153,1931,38220,804
Water Moon — Samantha Sotto Yambao 55,7371,30619,631
There is No Antimemetics Division — qntm 38,7901,0249,999
Beautyland — Marie-Helene Bertino 42,18864312,400
The Dream Hotel — Laila Lalami 42,31862211,519
On the Calculation of Volume I — Balle Solvej, tr Barbara J. Haveland36,1929718,329
Death of the Author — Nnedi Okorafor 23,2188889,004
What We Can Know — Ian McEwan 37,0201,0424,330
Conform — Ariel Sullivan 54,5933125,838
When the Moon Hits Your Eye — John Scalzi19,9077854,559
Fable for the End of the World — Ava Reid 13,8055876,062
The Book of Lost Hours — Hayley Gelfusa 23,1554543,500
The Antidote — Karen Russell17,1395953,571
To Cage a Wild Bird — Brooke Fast27,7232834,167
Lucky Day — Chuck Tingle 11,2353896,093
Vanishing World — Sayaka Murata tr Ginny Tapley Takemori 13,0293594,911
Blob: A Love Story — Maggie Su 14,3292165,401
On the Calculation of Volume II — Balle Solvej, tr Barbara J. Haveland 12,2864392,938
Shroud — Adrian Tchaikovsky12,7134362,087
The Society of Unknowable Objects — Gareth Brown13,8413002,532
Rose/House — Arcady Martine6,3883642,789
Under the Eye of the Big Bird — Hiromi Kawakami tr Asa Yoneda 7,5733252,482
Thrum — Meg Smitherman14,644764,590
Artificial Wisdom — Thomas R. Weaver8,6321812,647
Slow Gods — Claire North 4,2647571,071
The Book of Guilt — Catherine Chidgey 8,5231951,778
On the Calculation of Volume III — Balle Solvej, tr Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell 7,5541511,769
Cold Eternity — S. A. Barnes5,4191781,747
Old Soul — Susan Barker 5,0261891,543
The Shattering Peace — John Scalzi 7,396286654
Lightbreakers — Aja Gabel 6,0131561,442
Dissolution — Nicholas Binge5,6811931,143
The Third Rule of Time Travel — Philip Fracassi5,7042011,022
Shadows Upon Time — Christopher Ruocchio 10,228871,307
Where the Axe Is Buried — Ray Nayler3,4052511,212
The Merge — Grace Walker5,8931061,418
Saltcrop — Yume Kitasei3,5311771,345
Metal from Heaven — August Clarke 2,3212041,744
This Gilded Abyss — Rebecca Thorne 2,9851121,535
The Fourth Consort — Edward Ashton 3,715162789
Luminous — Sylvia Park 2,675171935
All That We See Or Seem — Ken Liu2,553181761
Death and Other Occupational Hazards — Veronika Dapunt3,048114923
Rakesfall — Vajra Chandrasekera1,534225919
The Book of Records — Madeleine Thien 2,115206584
Helm — Sarah Hall1,849169606
Local Heavens — K. M. Fajardo 1,68294870
Moonflow — Bitter Karella 1,325113811
Ice — Jacek Dukaj, tr Ursula Phillips 2,978151202
Bee Speaker — Adrian Tchaikovsky 2,43385290
The Two Lies of Faven Sythe — Megan E. O’Keefe 1,11981527
Halcyon Years — Alastair Reynolds1,77690188
Esperance — Adam Oyebanji99194257
Space Oddity — Catherynne M. Valente 596123284
Sunbirth — An Yu 86446401
A Thousand Blues — Cheon Seon-ran, tr Chi-Young Kim1,56125373
The Folded Sky — Elizabeth Bear 1,32795110
Outlaw Planet — M. R. Carey1,05973168
Future’s Edge — Gareth L. Powell96672183
Sleeper Beach — Nick Harkaway86089145
Symbiote — Michael Nayak 78751249
The Definitions — Matt Greene 70849207
The Way Up is Death — Dan Hanks 70037249
Extremity — Nicholas Binge 63552171
The Expanded Earth — Mikey Please 74623272
Big Time — Jordan Prosser 68429211
Awakened — Laura Elliott 52536211
Space Brooms! — A. G. Rodriguez 42939184
The Expansion Project — Ben Pester 56526191
City of All Seasons — Oliver K. Langmead & Aliya Whiteley 38441177
Aerth — Deborah Tomkins 46231186
An Unbreakable World — Ren Hutchings 28450177
Red Sword — Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur 30829157
A Blood as Bright as the Moon — Andrea Morstabilini25924148
Down in the Sea of Angels — Khan Wong24626130
Basilisk — Matt Wixey25016194
When There Are Wolves Again — E. J. Swift2642772
Some Body Like Me — Lucy Lapinska19226100
Every Version of You — Grace Chan2532473
The Doomed Earth: Destiny’s Way — Jack Campbell3573027
The Quiet — Barnaby Martin2431273
The Sea Eternal — Emery Robin 1262665
Archipelago of the Sun — Yoko Tawada tr Margaret Mitsutani 1153347
Whalesong — Miles Cameron3771923
Landfall — James Bradley3161046
Project Hanuman — Stewart Hotston 1223338
Hearthspace — Stephen Baxter 2482917
A Line You Have Traced — Roisin Dunnett1002549
Here and Beyond — Hal LaCroix1441825
Requiem — John Palisano 128939
Terms of Service — Ciel Pierlot 881339
Forged in Battle — Marc Alan Edelheit574610
A Rebel’s History of Mars — Nadia Afifi841529
The Immeasurable Heaven — Caspar Geon722319
The Enduring Universe — Kritika H. Rao651334
The Essence — Dave Hutchinson1082111
A Granite Silence — Nina Allan821615
Opposite World — Elizabeth Anne Martins732111
The Decadence — Leon Craig81341
Migraine — Samuel Fisher79623
Scales — Christopher Hinz 60725
The Price of Everything — Jon McGoran 801112
The Waiter — Kwan Ann Tan88158
The Perfect Stranger — Brian Pinkerton 10679
The Ganymedan — R. T. Ester52816
For Emma — Ewan Morrison 76810
The Salt Oracle — Lorraine Wilson44623
Life Number Nine — Joe Heap 104220
The Mune — Sue Dawes32330
Starship Salvager — Jarom Strong54740
Freebourne — Salman Shaheen3935
We Are Not Anonymous — Stephen Oram 34017
The River Blade — T. R. Thompson2381
Jaw Filler — Maz Murray and Charlie Markbreiter1725
The End — Mark Golding5830
Occam’s Dream — Lauren Jane Barnett1252
Animals — Geoff Ryman962
Stars Like Us — Stephen K. Stanford1042
Tomorrow Was Beautiful Once — Amy Orrell2112
The House on Utopia Way — Stefan Mohamed1305
944 Hidalgo — Jack Davies721
Reality Rift — Fred Gambino340
Body and Soul — Andrew Hook230
The Chladni Progression — T/R Ellison401
The Great West Wood — Philip Palmer 210
Tales From the Red Planet: Part One — Chris Cleveland 500
Tor — Terry Grimwood110
The City by the Sea — Alistair McNaught 101
Atlantis Afire — Gene Rowe300
Homeworld: Worlds Apart 3 — Terry Jackman 000
Star Pyramid — Ian Stewart000

The ordering of the above table has been slightly tweaked from my usual ranking – I have added 1 to each number before calculating the geometric average and listing the books in that order.

(Also corrected a few minor mistakes in the published list, of which the most significant is that the title of Alastair Reynolds’ novel is Halcyon Years, not Halcyon Days.)

The shortlist will be announced on 4 June.

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