So, having reached 3000 reviews at the complete review, it's time again to look at the statistical trends and insights of the past 100 reviews.
- At an average of 860.57 words per review, review-length was up 3.28% over the previous hundred.
- The male-female divide remains (nearly) as awful as ever: a mere 15.5 of the books reviewed were by women -- just a fraction above the historical average (which now rises to an unimpressive (but at least stubbornly consistent ?) 14.98%); see also the historical Author-sex breakdown of books under review
- Books reviewed were originally written in 24 languages (including English), and by authors from 44 different countries. For the first time in years, more than two-thirds of the books reviewed were written in English; French was the second most popular language (19 titles) -- but France was the best-represented nationality of authors (15, ahead of the US with 11). (See the complete language list/breakdown here.)
- 80 reviewed works were novels, and two were story-collections; only one was poetry, and no plays were reviewed
- One book was graded 'A+' (Gerald Murnane's Barley Patch), none were rated 'A', seven were rated 'A-'. (There was also one 'C' and one 'C+'.)
- Almost one fifth of the books were first published -- in the original (i.e. not counting translations only now published in English) -- in 2012; 16 were published in the 1990s, 6 in the 1980s but 7 in the 1970s, 6 in the first half of the twentieth century, but only a single title before 1900.
- At an average of 860.57 words per review, review-length was up 3.28% over the previous hundred.
- The male-female divide remains (nearly) as awful as ever: a mere 15.5 of the books reviewed were by women -- just a fraction above the historical average (which now rises to an unimpressive (but at least stubbornly consistent ?) 14.98%); see also the historical Author-sex breakdown of books under review
- Books reviewed were originally written in 24 languages (including English), and by authors from 44 different countries. For the first time in years, more than two-thirds of the books reviewed were written in English; French was the second most popular language (19 titles) -- but France was the best-represented nationality of authors (15, ahead of the US with 11). (See the complete language list/breakdown here.)
- 80 reviewed works were novels, and two were story-collections; only one was poetry, and no plays were reviewed
- One book was graded 'A+' (Gerald Murnane's Barley Patch), none were rated 'A', seven were rated 'A-'. (There was also one 'C' and one 'C+'.)
- Almost one fifth of the books were first published -- in the original (i.e. not counting translations only now published in English) -- in 2012; 16 were published in the 1990s, 6 in the 1980s but 7 in the 1970s, 6 in the first half of the twentieth century, but only a single title before 1900.