Many things slipped my mind over the final few days of preparing the Hugo final ballot for publication, and one of them was my usual report on the number of owners and average rating of the Best Novel finalists by users of Goodreads and LibraryThing. This may well measure nothing more than the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, of course. For what it's worth, here are the figures:
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | |||
| owners | av rating | owners | av rating | |
| All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders | 65547 | 3.58 | 666 | 3.60 |
| The Obelisk Gate, by N. K. Jemisin | 22695 | 4.38 | 288 | 4.20 |
| Death's End, by Cixin Liu | 18745 | 4.48 | 220 | 4.19 |
| Too Like the Lightning, by Ada Palmer | 16480 | 3.97 | 226 | 4.06 |
| Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee | 12487 | 3.96 | 197 | 4.01 |
| A Closed and Common Orbit, by Becky Chambers | 14361 | 4.41 | 153 | 4.37 |
As I noted with the Nebulas, All the Birds in the Sky is way ahead in terms of number of owners, but the ratings for some of the others are pretty strong.