The last 100 reviews

       Topping the 3200-review mark at the complete review, it's time for another look at the last 100 reviews (numbers 3101-3200):

       The reviews were written over a span of 184 days and total 89,651 words.

       Reviewed books were originally written in 28 languages in addition to English; the most popular languages were:

1. French - 23 books
2. English 16
3. Spanish 11
4. Italian 8
5. Japanese 7

       (For a full breakdown of all the languages (now 62 !) of reviewed books at the complete review, see our language-list.)

       Surprisingly, the French books were really French this time: authors of 22 of the 23 books were from France (usually there are more from other Francophone countries).
       The nationality of authors of the most reviewed books were:

• 1. French - 22 books
• 2. Italian 8
• 3. Japanese 7
• -. US 7
• 5. Argentine 5
• -. Spanish 5
• 7. Indian 4

       As always, fiction dominated, with novels making up 73 of the books reviewed.

       No review rated higher than an "A-" -- but there were 7 of those, along with 29 "B+" and 55 "B". Two works rated only a "C".

       An astonishing 45 of the reviewed titles were first published in the past five years (that includes translations -- not the date of the English translation, but the original). Only five books were written before 1945; not one before 1921.

       And, shamefully, the sex-disparity remains consistent as ever: 84 books were written by men, 16 by women -- just a bit above the historic average (which is now up to ... 15.14%); see the Author-sex breakdown of books under review.