a data-driven book review of 5 years of goodreads

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

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