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Happy new year everyone!

I compiled, using the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ API and some webscraping, what we (active members of the group) have read until now, and the average rating by book for book members.

Here is the to see those statistics.

Only 3 2 books have not been read yet:
- Faraonul - volumul I Read by 5 people,see comments below
- Luka
- The New World

Please tell me if something seems wrong, I have corrected problems with editions of the same book but I bet there are some issues left.

Also if you have ideas of statistics you would like to see let me know!
I already plan to add some stats about the number of books read by member.

Interesting.

That's only volume 1 of Bolesław Prus' Pharoah. I suspect some attention is needed with combining. There are editions with two separate volumes, and also some one-volume ones translated under different titles, and I don't think everything is combined as it should be. But combining is down for maintenance just now so I can't do this. I can well believe though that no-one has read it, even if the one-volume work and volume 1s were checked, as few people now bother with this novel outside Poland.

There are a few in the top 100 least-read books that I want to read and I might use this as a selection criteria at some point. (I've recently been looking at classics I haven't read which have the highest number of ratings on GR.)

(Insatiability, Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (Jahrestage - some people from another group I'm in are doing a year- long group read at the moment), Sunset Song, Here's to You, Jesusa!, Things: A Story of the Sixties; A Man Asleep, The House of Ulloa, The Unknown Soldier)

An issue with a few of these - and probably some other books - is that people may be shelving them in combined editions and so more people have actually read them than it looks like. This is especially likely with Perec's Un homme qui dort as in English it's often published in the same volume as Things. Likewise if people are shelving A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite but not its component volumes when they have read them all. The records for Anniversaries are also potentially confusing because of the different content in various editions. I tried to sort them out in 2018 when the new translation was published, which hopefully has helped a little. Now most English readers are going for the new NYRB anyway.

Thank you Antonomasia, I will see what I can do for these books. For now I used the 1001 books listopia and computed the statistics on all editions of the books listed in there.

Unfortunately I don't know what to do for combined editions like Things: A Story of the Sixties; A Man Asleep as the two books are in the list. I have this book marked as read but I haven't read 'A man asleep' yet (read it in french, the two books weren't combined), because I couldn't find 'Things' on its own in Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.

Antonomasia wrote: "Interesting.

That's only volume 1 of Bolesław Prus' Pharoah. I suspect some attention is needed with combining. There are editions with two separate volumes, and also some one-volume ones transla..."

Finally 5 people have read this book Faraon so only two books not read yet!
Thank you for your help

I thought I saw where someone on one of the boards here was translating The New World with the help of google translator. Quite the labor of love, I think. Seems like getting picked by Boxall would have spurred someone to publish a translation into English by now, but I guess not.

Cool stuff!

I know more than one person read The Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, as I read this together with a few other members of the group. It is another book with multiple volume combinations and alternate titles. The reader listed isn't me, since I gave it a 4 rating and not a 2.

Also, Term Limits by Vince Flynn is not a list book.

Diane wrote: "Cool stuff!

I know more than one person read The Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, as I read this together with a few other members of the group. It is another book with multiple volume combination..."

Thanks Diane! Found the Three Kindgoms book you read, now we can see 11 members who have read it.
Edit: Actually, your ratings are not in the stats because you have a private profile, so the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ API does not allow me to see the books you have read.

I removed Term Limits from the stats, someone must have voted for this in the listopia.

The has been updated with these changes

This is fascinating. Thank you for compiling these stats!

Fran wrote: "Diane wrote: "Cool stuff!

I know more than one person read The Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, as I read this together with a few other members of the group. It is another book with multiple volu..."

Thanks for updating that. My profile isn't set to private, it is open to all Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ members. Must be a Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ glitch. If you still are unable to access my profile, send me a friend request.

Diane wrote: "Fran wrote: "Diane wrote: "Cool stuff!

I know more than one person read The Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, as I read this together with a few other members of the group. It is another book with ..."

I'm sorry but the fact that you chose 'all Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ members' and not 'anyone (including search engines)' still makes you a private member for the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ API, thus I am not able to retrieve your data programmatically.

I have a question. Aesop's Fables was on the 2006 list (pre-1700's) and I'm trying to read the complete 1315 books which include all years (2006 through 2020).

There have been 725 different Aesop's Fables identified at this time. And of course, my OCD mind wants to read all of them before checking this book off my list! So far, I haven't found a single book that includes them all, so I'm reading from several different books.

Finally -- my questions! Is there a single book that contains ALL 725 fables in one place? If so, where can I find it?

Carol wrote: "I have a question. Aesop's Fables was on the 2006 list (pre-1700's) and I'm trying to read the complete 1315 books which include all years (2006 through 2020).

There have been 725 different Aesop..."

There isn't a single book which contains all the fables. Aesop never wrote them down so there is wide disagreement as to how many there are. I would go with the Penguin edition which has about 382 and their introduction explains how theý chose these.

Karen wrote: "Carol wrote: "I have a question. Aesop's Fables was on the 2006 list (pre-1700's) and I'm trying to read the complete 1315 books which include all years (2006 through 2020).

There have been 725 d..."

Thank you for your answer. I'll have to check that edition -- I don't think I've read it yet.

Since the subject was brought up, I was kind of wondering myself which would be a good edition to recommend. Penguin is usually pretty reliable in these kinds of things--I'll keep an eye out for their version.

I did run across a version illustrated by Arthur Rackham a few years ago--I'm away from home at the moment, so I'm not sure how many fables are included in that one, but I'd guess there are far fewer than 382.

The only Penguin edition I've found so far, has only 200 fables. There is no introduction, but it does have a history of the development of the fables at the end.

Carol wrote: "The only Penguin edition I've found so far, has only 200 fables. There is no introduction, but it does have a history of the development of the fables at the end."

This is the version I was talking about The Complete Fables by Aesop. If you check it out on Amazon, you can read the Introduction and Notes on the Text. You should also consider reading one of the illustrated editions, such as the classic Arthur Rackham edition Bryan mentioned.

Very nice analysis. Thank you for posting it.

"Group members seem to be hard to please". Yes, we are. That comes from reading mostly high quality books.

I am surprised to see that we are only 7 people who have read A Ballad for Georg Henig. It is very visible when you sort by rating. You count also people reading in other languages? I have read it in Danish.

Fran wrote: "Happy new year everyone!

I compiled, using the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ API and some webscraping, what we (active members of the group) have read until now, and the average rating by book for book members.

Here..."

I've looked on the list of 1,315 books that I have (the well-known spreadsheet) and can't find Luka on there. Am I missing something?
Carol

Carol wrote: "I've looked on the list of 1,315 books that I have (the well-known spreadsheet) and can't find Luka on there. Am I missing something?."


It's got an alternative title. Look for The Port

Sean wrote: "Carol wrote: "I've looked on the list of 1,315 books that I have (the well-known spreadsheet) and can't find Luka on there. Am I missing something?."


It's got an alternative title. Look for [book..."

Thank you!

J_BlueFlower wrote: "Very nice analysis. Thank you for posting it.

"Group members seem to be hard to please". Yes, we are. That comes from reading mostly high quality books.

I am surprised to see that we are only 7 ..."

I have looked into your profile, yes the edition you read counts as this edition is linked to the book in the listopia.

That said, there are probably more than 7 people that read this book in the group, the thing is I can only automatically retrieve data from users with a public profile (chosen profile visible to 'anyone (including search engines)' in settings). There is no way to get books read by other types of profiles.

Fran wrote: "Happy new year everyone!

I compiled, using the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ API and some webscraping, what we (active members of the group) have read until now, and the average rating by book for book members.

Here..."

Thanks Fran! Great analysis.

I am learning 'R' and reading the 1001 Books - so I enjoyed looking through what you have built on two levels!