Lots to crunch here. First of all, the GR/LT stats for the Best Novel finalists:
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | |||
| owners | av rating | owners | av rating | |
| Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik | 114,671 | 4.3 | 793 | 4.28 |
| The Poppy War, by R.F. Kuang | 76,250 | 4.04 | 371 | 3.98 |
| The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal | 27,696 | 4.22 | 321 | 4.08 |
| Blackfish City, by Sam J. Miller | 18,116 | 3.63 | 189 | 3.4 |
| Witchmark, by C.L. Polk | 15,627 | 3.92 | 182 | 3.71 |
Impressive lead on all four metrics for Spinning Silver.
For Best Novella, there is also a clear leader, if not quite so strongly ahead, but the different modes of publication may mean that we are comparing apples and pears here:
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | |||
| owners | av rating | owners | av rating | |
| Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells | 28,406 | 4.29 | 378 | 4.26 |
| The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard | 8,036 | 3.96 | 159 | 3.81 |
| The Black God’s Drums, by P. Djèlí Clark | 6,132 | 4.12 | 107 | 4.27 |
| Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, by Kelly Robson | 4,172 | 3.71 | 104 | 3.72 |
| Alice Payne Arrives, by Kate Heartfield | 789 | 3.79 | 14 | 4 |
| Fire Ant, by Jonathan P. Brazee | 540 | 4.27 | 4 | 4 |
And we can do the same calculations also for the The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book:
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | |||
| owners | av rating | owners | av rating | |
| Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi | 267104 | 4.23 | 1333 | 4.04 |
| Dread Nation, by Justina Ireland | 49732 | 4.17 | 491 | 4.23 |
| Tess of the Road, by Rachel Hartman | 29456 | 3.94 | 266 | 4.07 |
| Aru Shah and the End of Time, by Roshani Chokshi | 30470 | 4.12 | 233 | 3.92 |
| Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword, by Henry Lien | 1111 | 4.1 | 23 | 4 |
| A Light in the Dark, by A.K. DuBoff | 108 | 4.41 | 1 | 0 |
Another front-runner. But the last of these is rather mysterious – only one owner who has bothered to register their purchase with LibraryThing? Surprisingly low for a Nebula shortlisted book.
Anyway, plenty of time to go.
…perhaps, if you’re amenable, when I’m done with MAGIC & MANNERS (my PRIDE & PREJUDICE pastiche) I’ll wing it your way to look out for period language tonality?