This is an analysis on good read books(1900-2020)
Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon that allows individuals to search it's database of books,annotations,quotes and reviews. Goodreads is the world's largest site for world readers where new books are recommended monthly. The data were recorded from 1900-2020 for authors,publisbers,Text reviews and books with the highest page count were recorded as a data challenge for the month of May. The dataset was obtained inorder to gain key insights on the authors who wrote the most books, books with the highest number of page counts, best rated authors, publishers and the language which was predominantly used.
The data used to derive these insights was downloaded from the web and the analysis was done using Microsoft Excel, Click here to obtain the dataset from the site.
The data was downloaded and loaded in Excel straight away and made sure to use the dates in several columns to extract the years for respective books
The total books recorded were 11127 with an average rating of 3.93. it can be observed that there were 6643 Authors, 2266 Publishers and a total of 27 languages were used, with English being the predominant language with 80%
Twilight topped both the best rated book and books with the highest reviews with 5M and 94K respectively.
It was observed that the highest rated authors are j.k.Rowling/Mary Grand Praé but why was her book not the best rated or book with the highest review?
The attributes that set j.k.Rowling/Mary Grand Praé from her peers is the ability to tell a story in the most compelling manner with a reasonable plot, superb characterisation and an incentive imagination.
The aforementioned attributes are what defines a great author but not a great book overtime according to a particular review which is ostensibly clear and i concur, Having read and saw the reviews on the classic "Harry Potter" , her work were mostly about light-hearted children books which allowed her work to avoid much scrutiny from literature critics and this worked in favour of other authors with several books published.
Top 10 publishers that published several books , penguin book is the best rated publisher with 11M. Penguin book is a British publishing house, they are a group of proud publishers of gifted storytellers with 261 books published and vintage published the highest number of books with 318 books.
- A total of 27 languages were used in 11127 books published, English being the primary language with 81%
- Stephen king is the author of the book with highest page count
- war and peace is the book with the highest page count with 7k pages
- Mary Grand Praé partnership with j.k.Rowling was as an illustrator, she designed all seven books for the Harry Potter series.