Summary Data

2023 All
Current cycle 6
Books read 10 42
Number of ratings 80 316
Avg days between meetings 34.7 32.2

Books read this year

  1. Build Your House Around my Body: Smoke monsters and Vietnamese water ghosts seek revenge for violence against women (Hannah)
  2. Axiom’s End: Aliens are sociopolitically and linguistically complicated (Healy)
  3. Guilty Pleasures: Noir detective plus sexy vampires that aren’t especially sexy (Julia)
  4. Darkroom: Autobiographical graphic novel about being Latina while near some Civil Rights protests (Kevin)
  5. Nine Nasty Words: Why “damn” is okay now but “fuck” isn’t (Ben)
  6. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: Family murder mystery in Australian ski lodge (Amanda)
  7. The Measure: Strings are just like civil rights (Ryan)
  8. This Is How You Lose the Time War: Time is a braid and history-fixers fall so in love (Sam)
  9. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: White people always loved violence, and Native people had to suffer because of it (NA)
  10. Disappearing Earth: Being a woman [in rural Russia] suuux (Hannah)

Books

Best / Worst

Pre-2023

Best: Long Bright River

Worst: Bring the War Home

2023

Best: Build Your House Around my Body

Worst: Guilty Pleasures

All

Best: Long Bright River

Worst: Bring the War Home

Most / Least Polarizing

Pre-2023

Most: Consider the Lobster

Least: Long Bright River

2023

Most: This Is How You Lose the Time War

Least: Guilty Pleasures

All

Most: Consider the Lobster

Least: Long Bright River

Rating groups

Bookmakers

Best / Worst

Pre-2023

Best: Ryan

Worst: Amanda

2023

Best: Hannah

Worst: Julia

All

Best: Ryan

Worst: Kevin

Most / Least Polarizing

Pre-2023

Most: Ben

Least: Julia

2023

Most: Sam

Least: Julia

All

Most: Ben

Least: Ryan

Raters

Highest / Lowest

Pre-2023

Highest: Julia

Lowest: Kevin

2023

Highest: Sam

Lowest: Kevin

All

Highest: Julia

Lowest: Kevin

Most / Least Variable

Pre-2023

Most: Ben

Least: Ryan

2023

Most: Healy

Least: Sam

All

Most: Hannah

Least: Sam

Favorite / Least Favorite Bookmaker

Bookmaker
Amanda Ben Hannah Healy Julia Kevin Ryan Sam
Amanda 3.80 2.60 3.50 3.40 3.20 1.80 3.20 2.50
Ben 3.40 3.20 3.00 2.60 3.40 2.40 3.20 3.00
Hannah 2.60 2.80 3.50 2.80 2.40 2.60 3.00 2.25
Healy 2.20 2.40 3.33 2.20 3.00 2.00 3.20 3.00
Julia 2.75 3.25 3.33 3.25 3.20 3.67 3.60 3.75
Kevin 2.00 2.80 2.50 2.40 2.20 3.20 2.80 2.00
Ryan 3.00 2.25 2.50 3.33 2.80 2.25 3.60 3.00
Sam 2.50 3.25 3.50 3.33 3.00 3.00 3.40 3.75

Preference Similarity

Most / Least Similar

Most: Kevin & Hannah

Least: Kevin & Amanda

Couple & Sibling Pairs

64% Kevin & Hannah
55% Ben & Amanda
35% Ryan & Julia
28% Sam & Healy

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