Goodreads/LibraryThing stats: Clarke submission list

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As usual, I've run the books on the Arthur C. Clarke Award submission list through Goodreads and LibraryThing to see how many people have registered copies on each system (NB you have to dig down a level for this on Goodreads) and what the average rating of each book is. They are listed below by (geometric) average number of owners on the two systems. The top quartile, more or less, is bolded in each column (and for Goodreads ratings, anything over 4).

A couple of additions to my reading list, I think.

Goodreads LibraryThing
owners av rating owners av rating
The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead 193921 4.06 1310 4.16
Dark Matter — Blake Crouch 145960 4.12 842 4.06
The Fifth Season — N.K. Jemisin 78001 4.32 816 4.27
Morning Star — Pierce Brown 111396 4.5 444 4.27
All the Birds in the Sky — Charlie Jane Anders 59858 3.59 609 3.64
Sleeping Giants — Sylvain Neuvel 61779 3.83 468 3.7
Underground Airlines — Ben Winters 35825 3.9 371 4.06
Zero K — Don DeLillo 18382 3.28 331 3.35
The Last One — Alexandra Oliva 29922 3.68 180 3.83
Radiance — Catherynne M. Valente 15664 3.76 293 3.74
This Census-Taker — China Miéville 10701 3.3 312 3.41
Death’s End — Cixin Liu 16467 4.5 184 4.18
The Wolf Road — Beth Lewis 12553 4.02 215 4.02
City of Blades — Robert Jackson Bennett 12914 4.24 203 4.29
Front Lines — Michael Grant 14516 4.16 139 3.94
Ninefox Gambit — Yoon Ha Lee 10266 3.99 166 4
The Long Cosmos — Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter 10774 3.85 156 3.42
The Sudden Appearance of Hope — Claire North 13575 3.61 123 3.6
A Closed and Common Orbit — Becky Chambers 11905 4.42 116 4.34
Good Morning, Midnight — Lily Brooks-Dalton 11492 3.92 84 3.74
The Nightmare Stacks — Charles Stross 5408 4.23 169 4.08
The Man Who Spoke Snakish — Andrus Kivirähk 4885 4.17 128 4.08
The Hatching — Ezekiel Boone 6920 3.64 87 3.71
The Lost Time Accidents — John Wray 7653 3.3 76 3.62
Central Station — Lavie Tidhar 4411 3.55 114 3.77
Burning Midnight — Will McIntosh 5003 3.62 96 3.93
Revenger — Alastair Reynolds 6496 3.88 65 3.46
Medusa’s Web — Tim Powers 3230 3.58 128 4.09
False Hearts — Laura Lam 7174 3.78 53 3.88
United States of Japan — Peter Tieryas 5504 3.53 69 3.54
The Core of the Sun — Johanna Sinisalo 4036 3.89 94 3.81
Behind the Throne — K.B. Wagers 4531 3.86 73 3.75
The Power — Naomi Alderman 5338 4.14 51 3.85
The Trees — Ali Shaw 4522 3.79 58 4
The Medusa Chronicles — Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds 3522 3.81 71 3.31
Empire V — Victor Pelevin 2774 3.86 68 3.61
War Factory — Neal Asher 2356 4.25 57 3.91
The Corporation Wars: Dissidence — Ken MacLeod 1164 3.82 62 3.39
After Atlas — Emma Newman 1716 4.26 32 4.44
The Tourist — Robert Dickinson 1687 2.66 32 2.69
New Pompeii — Daniel Godfrey 1450 3.33 37 3.17
The Last Gasp — Trevor Hoyle 592 3.92 77 3.25
The Many Selves of Katherine North — Emma Geen 1777 3.73 25 4.1
The Rise of Io — Wesley Chu 1683 4.08 23 3
The Gradual — Christopher Priest 1139 3.72 33 3.42
The Destructives — Matthew De Abaitua 986 3.8 29 2.5
Ancestral Machines — Michael Cobley 762 3.45 29 2.8
Occupy Me — Tricia Sullivan 712 3.41 26 3.5
The Devil’s Evidence — Simon Kurt Unsworth 904 4.16 17 4.33
When the Floods Came — Clare Morrall 659 3.34 23 3.07
Forsaken Skies — D. Nolan Clark 1118 3.76 13 –
The High Ground — Melinda Snodgrass 759 3.73 17 3.25
Into Everywhere — Paul McAuley 662 4.1 19 3.79
Europe in Winter — Dave Hutchinson 337 4.14 37 3.75
Infinite Ground — Martin MacInnes 580 3.69 20 –
Invasion — Luke Rhinehart 673 3.39 15 3.83
Necrotech — K.C. Alexander 906 4.02 11 4.5
Hunters & Collectors — M. Suddain 435 4.11 16 4
Graft — Matt Hill 1358 3.36 5 3
The Arrival of Missives — Aliya Whiteley 645 4.11 9 3.33
Daughter of Eden — Chris Beckett 443 4.19 10 4.25
Azanian Bridges — Nick Wood 198 3.7 19 3.13
Creation Machine — Andrew Bannister 270 3.51 13 3.5
Starbound — Dave Bara 198 3.75 17 3.83
Sockpuppet — Mathew Blakstad 778 3.68 4 –
The Lazarus War [Origins] — Jamie Sawyer 351 4.16 6 3
A Field Guide to Reality — Joanna Kavenna 252 3.34 8 3.5
South — Frank Owen 374 3.48 5 3
Outriders — Jay Posey 1826 3.86 1 –
Escapology — Ren Warom 838 3.74 2 –
Nemesis — Alex Lamb 258 4.21 6 –
Savant — Nik Abnett 187 3.32 8 –
Survival Game — Gary Gibson 194 4.18 5 –
Lament for the Fallen — Gavin Chait 180 3.59 4 4
Every Mountain Made Low — Alex White 176 3.04 4 –
Fair Rebel — Steph Swainston 85 4.42 8 4
The Sign of One — Eugene Lambert 236 3.95 2 –
Waking Hell — Al Robertson 80 3.83 5 –
The Disciple — Stephen Lloyd Jones 79 4.13 2 –
The Bastard Wonderland — Lee Harrison 25 4.67 1 3
Dark Made Dawn — J.P. Smythe 107 3.63 0 –
The Blood of the Hoopoe — Naomi Foyle 9 4.25 1 3.5
The Girl with Two Souls — Stephen Palmer 4 4 0 –
The Girl with One Friend — Stephen Palmer 1 4 0 –
The Girl with No Soul — Stephen Palmer 1 4 0 –
Songshifting — Chris Bell 0 – 1 4

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  1. I saw your Kate Adie book and the title appealed to me, as it recalled a time on a dark windy wet midnight when an AA man was kind to me at a motorway service station.
    The Peter Purves book I’d be interested to hear about – more nostalgia, about Blue Peter this time!

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