a data-driven book review of 5 years of goodreads
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I Books Nick’s Goodreads Data, July 2016
I read a book per week on average
I’ve read 236 books since 9/2011 (244 weeks)
I read about 50 pages per day
I read about half fiction and half non-fiction
30% of the fiction I read is SF
I read a range of non-fiction, but a lot about business
I rate books 0.625 lower on average than others
My top ~10 favorites, and one to avoidTitle Author Rating
A Planet for Rent Yoss 5
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 5
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino 5
A History of the Future in 100 Objects Adrian Hon 5
The Luminaries Eleanor Catton 5
The Unincorporated Man Dani Kollin 5
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb 5
Measure of the Earth Larrie D. Ferreiro 5
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 5
Barbarians at the Gate Bryan Burrough 5
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson 5
The Lean Startup Eric Ries 5
The Inevitable Kevin Kelly 1
Recency bias vs. Lindy effect