TIOLI Super Duper Statistics

*pants* Here we go...

As of June 30, 2011:

269 Challenges

2010 – 153 Challenges
First half of 2011 – 116 Challenges

January 2010 -7
February 2010 - 8
March 2010 - 9
April 2010 - 11
May 2010 - 9
June 2010 - 14
July 2010 - 13
August 2010 - 15
September 2010 - 18
October 2010 - 16
November 2010 - 17
December 2010 -16

January 2010 - 16
February 2010 - 18
March 2010 - 18
April 2010 - 20
May 2010 - 20
June 2010 – 24

Challenges

***Title***

12 words; 17 letters; alliterative; animal; author's name; begins with "A"; body part; building; character mentioned in the title and the title is alliterative; city; coffee or tea; color; “color” or an actual color; completes, "I would like to be…"; day of week; day or night; diary or journal; duplicate word; elected official or title; embedded word; equal number of letters in the main words of the title; exclamation point; father or dad; first LibraryThing three-letter combo; flower or place you would find flowers; foreign language; four elements; four letters or less; heaven or hell; “ides”; includes letter "z"; individual letter which is repeated 13 times; love; name starting with the letter "Z"; nine; no "e"; North, South, East, West; number; number of letters in the words in the title increase or decrease by one; one word; one word title that is not the name of a character in the book; opposite words; opposites; possessive apostrophe; prepositional phrase; problem; profession; proper name; saint or green; same vowel repeating in every word of the title2; season; single letter or number; single syllable words; song title; spring; standalone sentence (2); starts with "h"; starts with Who, What, Where, Why, When or How; style of dancing; suggests love or marriage; summer; superlative; sweater-related; tale, story, reference to water; term of family; the author, character or title from another book; this or that; three word title and "and" as the middle word; time of day or night; title; unseemly occupation; vowels in alphabetical order; walk; weather term; white; winter; word related to sky or earth; word that can be broken down into multiple words

***Author***

2010 National Book Festival; Beat; Canadian; debut book; Diana Wynne Jones; died in 2010; first name ends with the same letter their last name starts with; first successful work; Indian; Jane Austen; Japanese; Latin American; living poet; long last name; LT author; Mexican or Chicano; no hurry to read again; Nobel Laureate (2); Russian; three part name; two authors as one; using the pen name of a famous author

***Subject/Place***

a place that ends in "iberia"; a real-life writer as a character; Africa; alternative to naturally occurring biological motherhood; American Civil War; an educational setting or about education; ancient world; animal that travels; another world; autism; autobiography or diary of a writer; baseball; birthday; books; brain anomaly; Christmas; classic; cooking; finances, money, Wall Street, etc.; food; gay/lesbian; Harry Potter; historical mystery; history; hometown or state; India; London, England; making a difference; Middle East; migration or movement between countries; name of colour; nested narratives; New York or New Jersey; nonfiction about a country other than your own; nonfiction about art, artists, antiques or antiquities; nonfiction about travel and discovering new places; not quite horror; old-fashioned type of children's story; paranormal being; Paris; Passover or Easter; philosophy; poetry; police work; Prague or golem; private investigator; religion; retells a fairy tale or myth; sex; short stories; short stories; someone trying to do something in a new way; spies or spying; tennis; time travel; wild animals; winter; women in history; Wonderland; work or workplace; World War I or II; your locale

***Book***

140 pages or fewer; 480 pages or more; a new medium to you; a short work; an ISBN that ends in 4; at least 23cm tall; audiobook (2); audiobook; borrowed, inherited or bought second-hand; children's book that has been translated; first in series; for young adults and is fantasy or science fiction; fourth in a series or by an author; graphic novel, anime, manga or comic book compilation; name of a city on page 17; new in an existing series; one title that contains two books; predates the printing press; primarily not for reading; published before you were born; published in 1970; published in 21st century; red spine (2); reprinted by NYRB/Persephone/Capuchin/Bloomsbury/Archipelago, etc. after being out of print; second book in a series or by an author; translated from French

***Award***

2010 Man Booker; 2010 Orange Prize long list; 2011 Orange longlist; Alex; basis for a film nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar; Canada Reads; Hugo; Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Lambda Literary; Newbery Medal; Orange longlist, shortlist, winner or new writer award; Pulitzer Prize the year you were born; Tournament of Books longlist

***List***

50 LibraryThing's Top Wishlisted books that you haven't read before; 75 Book Challenge Favorite of 2010; ALA's list of books challenged or banned in 2009 - 2010; Best of the Quarter; Canada Reads; Canada Reads 2011; NYTimes best seller list on your 21st birthday; The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 authors; top rated book of 2010

***Cover***

animal; awful art; dog or cat; flower only; striking art

***Misc***

10,000+ copies but new to you; a favorite TIOLI challenge from a previous month; a Japanese author or takes place in Japan; about Hungary or Hungary in the title; alphabetical order; an Early Readers or Advanced Reader's Copy; author whose picture appears in the top lefthand corner of your Authors' Gallery; author you've previously given under 3 stars to; been on your shelf a year or longer and the only one that you own by that author who is a writer you've never read; bold part of the tag mirror of the person below you; book nudge; by or about an African American woman; candidate for the Orwell prize, in the spirit of the Orwell prize or was written by Orwell; Caribbean author or set in the Caribbean; Club Read Books with Three Criteria Challenge; ead by two other reads for a TIOLI challenge; Early Reviewers; eceived from another LT member; een on your TBR list all year; father or grandfather's name in the title or as the author's name; favorite author that is little known and deserves wider recognition; first heard of from a LT member; fits 2 previous challenges you did not participate in; five word title that uses at least one word from the preceeding book title; follows another book and is written by a woman; from the library; genre seldom visited; has been on your TBR list since 1 January 2011 at least but which you keep not getting around to in favor of other TIOLI challenge options; has not been reviewed; low place; made into a movie; new to you author from China, Korea, Mongolia or Vietnam; new to you author who has 2+ books on your TBR list; nonfiction book if you mostly read fiction (or vice-versa); only 2 vowels in each word that make you think of being warm; published after 2005 and has 5 or more words in the title; published before August 2010 with 25 or less copies on LT; ranked below 10,000 on the LT Popularity Index; rating of 3.80 to 4.20; received for Christmas; recommended by an LT member; recommended by Stasia and title begins with M - Z; recommended by Stasia and title begins with A - L; re-read, little known and a sentimental favorite; standard deviation of ratings of at least 1.00; swapped with some other person via a bookswap site; the fifth book in a series and has five words in the title; title, author or first page contains reference to a doctor; Touchstone interface thinks is another book; Valentine in the title or authored by a person named Valentine; word in the title or part of an author's name is a bird

Top Challengers (number of challenges)

1. cyderry - 21 (correction)
2. SqueakyChu - 18
3. Lindapanzo - 17
4. Zoe - 15
5. kidzdoc - 12
5. elkiedee - 12
7. Chatterbox - 11
7. CitizenJoyce - 11
9. Carmenere - 10
10. AlcottAcre - 9
10. MikeBriggs - 9

Top Challengers (average books per challenge)

1. NocturnalBlue - 91
2. SqueakyChu - 69
3. AnneDC - 65
4. MikeBriggs - 53
5. gennyt - 49
6. goddesspt2 - 48
7. bell7 - 37
7. Smiler69 - 37
9. cyderry - 36
9.DragonFreak - 36

Top Challengers (total books read over all challenges)

1. SqueakyChu – 1249 books
2. cyderry - 510 books
3. MikeBriggs - 476 books
4. Zoe - 390 books
5. Chatterbox - 377 books
6. elkiedee - 290 books
7. CitizenJoyce - 283 books
8. bell7 - 223 books
9. Smiler69 - 220 books
10. lindapanzo - 213 books

Top Challenges

1. A short work by MikeBriggs – 164 books
2. A book released in 21st century by cyderry – 140 books
3. A book with a rating of 3.80 to 4.20 by SqueakyChu – 130 books
4. A book with the same vowel repeating in every word of the title by Smiler69 – 123 books
5. A book with a name of a city on page 17 by SqueakyChu – 118 books
6. A book from a favorite TIOLI challenge from a previous month by Zoe – 111 books
7. A book in alphabetical order by SqueakyChu – 103 books
8. A book that is in a low place by SqueakyChu – 92 books
9. A book ranked below 10,000 on the LT Popularity Index by NocturnalBlue – 91 books
10. A book that is a graphic novel, anime, manga or comic book compiliation by goddesspt2 – 88 books

Most Popular Titles (total over all challenges

A Christmas Carol - 18
Pride and Prejudice - 14
Beowulf - 14
Hospital Sketches - 12
The White Tiger - 12
Sense and Sensibility - 11
84, Charing Cross - 11
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - 11
Room - 10
A Moveable Feast - 10
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - 10

Most Popular Titles (in one challenge)

A Christmas Carol - 18
Beowulf - 14
Pride and Prejudice - 14
The White Tiger - 12
Sense and Sensibility - 11
Room - 10
Hospital Sketches - 9
The Drunken Forest - 9
Dracula - 8
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - 8
The Endless Steppe - 8
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - 8

Most Popular Titles (top title in different challenges)

84, Charing Cross – 3
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - 2
Case Histories - 2
Hospital Sketches - 2
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - 2
Montana 1948 - 2
A Moveable Feast - 2

*falls over*

Yay, thank you for this!

I can't help asking: do you happen to have extended lists of the most popular titles? Not to be ungrateful or create more work, but I thought they might have been produced incidentally :D

Thank you again!

Sure do. I'll be putting a spreadsheet into Google so you can play to your heart's content.

Fascinating, Morphy! Thanks for doing this!

Hooray! I love looking at lists. I sense that there will be future TIOLIs derived from this :)

Thank you again!

Morphidae, you rock!!

Okay, here is the link to Google Docs:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmSg5qorIw0jdEF5anhHOGxLRmt...

Wow so much to take in. It may take me a while to really get through all the lists. Thanks Morphidae

Morphy is the bomb! Thank you for taking the time to do this.

This is fantastic, Morphy! Thanks so much for putting all of this together! When I think about how long it will take me to really read (and take in) everything, I just can't imagine the time you must have spent on this. Thanks again! Now I'm going to check out google Docs. :-)

{{{Hugs}}}

Thank you so much! Great job!

Karen O.

How kind of you to take the time and effort to put this all together, Morph. You are a TIOLI treasure!

Wow, Morphy! What an amazing feat!! Thanks so much for doing this. I've already used the information to check on one challenge in preparation for next month.

Something seems to be wrong with stats about me, though. I know I haven't read 1,249 books in less than two years. It would be closer to about 100 since January of 2010.

Oh, I get it now. Those are the books that *others* have read for my challenges.

I can't even catch my breath just looking at what you've done. How have you been able to accomplish so much in so little time?
On a secondary note, if people show you the Rorschach ink blots, do they run screaming from he room?

This is fascinating stuff! Thank you so much for all your hard work, Morphy. I thought TIOLI sounded like something fun to try when Madeline started it last year - and look how it has morphed (sorry, I just couldn't resist!) into a behemoth of gigantic proportions.

Madeline and Morphy Queens of the Behemoths!

Things are easy when you have the right tools! And I did reporting for a decade before I went on disability, so this stuff is a piece of cake for me.

Next stop... the every book by every participant for every challenge table!

>Rorschach ink blots

Heh, I don't get it.

>how it has morphed

*rim shot*

I was wondering if you can save the Google doc. How would I copy that document to my PC?

ETA: I just figured it out. I want to have this might document handy at all times!

Regarding Rorschach, your brain works in strange and wondrous ways.

Next stop... the every book by every participant for every challenge table!

Be still, my heart!

This would be amazing.

I'm with Zoe. I can't even imagine such a thing. But I will love it!

>25 Citizenjoyce: Is that what they are calling it nowadays? :D

I'm putting a call out for a proofreader. This would involve double checking my work as I add books to check for typos and errors. I would export the table to GoogleDocs as I work. Or maybe I can just ask the group in general to verify my work as I go. Accuracy will be important when it comes to doing the statistics later.

Fascinating - thanks Morphy!

I got 2% done, so at this rate it will take me about 2 months to complete the "big" job.

Oh boy.

This is awesome - thanks!!

2 months to complete the big job! Wow, is there a step above sainthood?

Wow! What a lot of work you've put in! Thanks.

This is an amazing achievement Morphy! You deserve a HUGE pat on the back for this. :)

That is amazing Morphy!

Wow, what an accomplishment this is. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Great information, thanks for doing this for us Morphy. You and Madeline should package all this information up and sell to high schools - I think a challenge like this would really be an excellent way to promote reading.

Bravo! Thanks for doing this.

Notes on Book list short cuts I'm using:

1. Title: Not including subtitles - a little less for me to type
2. Title: Putting A, An, The at end of title - else lists won't be in alpha order
3. Author: Only including one author, usually first listed - too hard to do otherwise
4. Reader: Using LT username only - too hard to figure out who is who otherwise

ETA: And I swear, some of you must be twins, you are always reading all the same books at the same time!

Oh, dear, Morphy, are you finding out too many of our deepest darkest secrets? Will Homeland Security be coming for your list soon?

Morphy -

Oh wow -- I got way behind while I was out of town and only just found this -- I am amazed at what you've done!

Thanks for all the work -- even if you have the tools and the skills, it still must have taken a considerable amount of time. I can understand the lure of dong it, though -- numbers and statistics can be fascinating. Throw it books and becomes...well...the heat must be frying my brain because I'm running out of sufficiently laudatory superlatives.

At any rate, thanks!

In August 2010 for the Classics TIOLI #10, someone read Georges' Wife, The by Elizabeth Jolley but they didn't provide their name. Help?

I'm 25% done with the "big" book list.

> 43

If you cannot find out who read it...

A book listed without a reader's name should be deleted from the master list. That's that I do now when I compile the stats. If that messes up your stats, then just leave it and call the reader "Unknown".

I think I know who it is and I sent a PM. If I don't hear from the person within a day or two, I'll remove it. It's one of the regulars.

This is really outstanding! You still a proofreader? I might be able to do some of that.

Nope, I got one. But thanks!