The Clarke shortlist has been out for a couple of days, but I’ve been quite busy so am posting the ownership stats for the six lucky books only today. I’m also noting the ranking of each book in the equivalent table for the long list.
These numbers are crunched by hand, not by AI.
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | |||||
| raters | rating | owners | rating | |||
| (1) | The Ministry of Time | Kaliane Bradley | 139,555 | 3.59 | 1,976 | 3.71 |
| (5) | Annie Bot | Sierra Greer | 52,555 | 3.83 | 529 | 3.74 |
| (13) | Service Model | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 11,505 | 4.04 | 350 | 3.83 |
| (21) | Private Rites | Julia Armfield | 8,632 | 3.68 | 213 | 3.81 |
| (60) | Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock | Maud Woolf | 642 | 3.69 | 27 | 3.75 |
| (79) | Extremophile | Ian Green | 139 | 3.90 | 16 | – |
None of these was in the top quintiles of reader ratings from the long list. The last two seem to have made a big impression on judges despite low print runs.
I’m planning to be at the ceremony on 25 June – see you there perhaps.