The TIOLI Stat Goddess Strikes Again

Notes: The Google documents are sortable and searchable but not changeable. They are also filterable but it’s rather slow.

If you want a list of all books you have read by challenge, send me a private comment with your email address and I’ll send it in the format of your choice (.xls, .xslx, .doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf, etc.)

Let me know if you have any suggestions as to other data you’d like to see. I think I have it all covered though.

My goal is to update this once a quarter by the end of the following month. So for up to September 2011, it should be complete by the end of October.

Vague plans if I ever get around to it include adding genre and year published to the database. Maybe I can ask Tim to help with the genre (usually most popular tag by title) if I send him a file. We’ll see.

From January 2010 to July 2011:

TIOLI All Books through 7/2011 Google Document

Books Read: 7,652
Unique Books Read: 5,103
Unique Authors Read: 3,458

Books Read in 2010: 3,676
Books Read in 2011 through July 2011: 3,976

Books Read by Month:

2010 January – 84 titles
2010 February - 70
2010 March - 85
2010 April - 179
2010 May - 160
2010 June - 297
2010 July - 402
2010 August - 560
2010 September - 405
2010 October - 504
2010 November - 416
2010 December - 514
2011 January - 591
2011 February - 386
2011 March - 509
2011 April - 493
2011 May - 630
2011 June - 697
2011 July - 670

Top Ten Titles

Google Document

#1 Room by Donoghue, Emma – 28 readers
#2 Uncommon Reader, The by Bennett, Alan - 21
#3 84, Charing Cross Road by Hanff, Helene - 19
#4 A Christmas Carol by Dickens, Charles - 18
#4 Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane - 18
#4 Still Life by Penny, Louise - 18
#7 Cloud Atlas by Mitchell, David - 16
#7 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Simonson, Helen - 16
#9 Soulless by Carriger, Gail - 15
#10 Beowulf by Heaney, Seamus - 14
#10 Hospital Sketches by Alcott, Louisa May - 14
#10 The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by Mitchell, David - 14

Top Ten Authors

Google Document

Penny, Louise - 58 readers
Austen, Jane - 57
Rowling, J. K.- 49
Jones, Diana Wynne - 45
Collins, Suzanne - 36
Pratchett, Terry - 34
Mitchell, David - 34
Carriger, Gail- 32
Dickens, Charles - 31
Gaiman, Neil - 29
Donoghue, Emma – 28

Top Ten Authors by unique titles read:

Google Document

(author - number of unique titles, most popular title, number of readers for most popular title)

Jones, Diana Wynne – 21, Dogsbody, 6
Pratchett, Terry – 15, I Shall Wear Midnight, 8
Christie, Agatha – 15, 3 way tie, 2 each
Robb, J. D. – 14, Indulgence in Death, 2
Kirkman, Robert – 14, Walking Dead: The Best Defense and This Sorrowful Life, 3
Patterson, James – 13, 3 way tie, 2 each
Drabble, Margaret – 13, 13 way tie, 1 each
Lackey, Mercedes – 13, 3 way tie, 2 each
Shakespeare, William – 12, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Taming of the Shrew, 3
Le Guin, Ursula K. – 12, 4 way tie, 2 each

Books read for most number of challenges:

Google Document

For 8 challenges:
Wolf Hall by Mantel, Hilary
The Uncommon Reader by Bennett, Alan

For 7 challenges:
84, Charing Cross Road by Hanff, Helene
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Larsson, Stieg
The Hunger Games by Collins, Suzanne
My Reading Life by Conroy, Pat
Room by Donoghue, Emma
Still Life by Penny, Louise
The Siege by Dunmore, Helen
Great House by Krauss, Nicole
The Book Thief by Zusak, Markus

Top Ten Readers by title:

Google Document

Chatterbox – 503 titles
elkiedee - 352
MikeBriggs - 295
souloftherose - 226
alcottacre - 212
Citizenjoyce - 192
avatiakh - 185
goddesspt2 - 181
kidzdoc - 175
pbadeer - 163

Top Ten Readers by challenges:

Google Document

Chatterbox – 181 challenges
elkiedee - 141
klobrien2 - 109
souloftherose - 108
pbadeer - 107
avatiakh - 104
wandering_star - 103
calm - 103
goddesspt2 - 101
alcottacre - 98

Top Ten Challenges

Google Document

On to do list for Google doc: match challenge with code (year, month, challenge number)

2011.6.21 A short work by MikeBriggs – 163 titles
2010.10.7 A book released in 21st century by cyderry - 139
2011.1.1 A book with a rating of 3.80 to 4.20 by SqueakyChu - 130
2011.5.13 A book with the same vowel repeating in every word of the title by Smiler69 - 123
2011.3.1 A book with a name of a city on page 17 by SqueakyChu - 118
2010.12.2 A book from a favorite TIOLI challenge from a previous month by Zoe - 111
2011.7.1 A book with a title that has (number) of words by SqueakyChu - 110
2010.11.1 A book in alphabetical order by SqueakyChu - 103
2011.6.1 A book that is in a low place by SqueakyChu - 92
2011.1.11 A book ranked below 10,000 on the LT Popularity Index by NocturnalBlue - 91

Thanks for doing all of that Morphy! You're awesome!

Ooh, how I love stats :-)

You are definitely the TIOLI stats goddess Morphy - thank you!

I was just so shocked when I saw all these different stats that I just started to look at everything. Thanks for doing this Morphy, you are the best!!

Wow! Those stats are fascinating. Thank you so much, Moprhy. That's great work you've done.

Fascinating. I love all this information you have given us, thanks Morphy!

My thanks as well, this is fascinating reading and I'm in the top 10!

Wow- that's amazing! I'm in awe.

I love it! Thank you.

My favourite is the list of most-read works. It's interesting to see how much overlap there is with the group's characteristic works, too. Are people reading those for TIOLI because they're generally popular here, or is it TIOLI that makes them popular? (Probably a bit of both, but still fun to consider.)

I really find this database helpful. Even I am fogetting which challenges have already been offered (admits this!). I'll be referring back to your database often.

This is an outstanding help...and coincidentally a great source of interest and amusement for bookies...

Thanks Morphy!

Anytime anyone wants to know if a challenge has been offered, feel free to ask.

>17 Matke: Oh, tell me about it. I already have another book challenge for myself. Read all the most popular TIOLI titles! Bwhahaha.

This is fabulous; thank you!

Fascinating - thanks for all your hard work, Morphy.