These pages are all about the books I've read. In 1985
I started recording and rating the books I read, perhaps to remind myself not to reread some forgettable trash, or
perhaps to honour my first '10', The Lord of the Rings.
I've kept it going more or less continually since then, first on paper, then on Access, and now, more usefully, with a MySQL database. No obsessive compulsive comments please. A partial version of the list exists on my Goodreads profile.
You can do all the things the statistician part of me finds
exciting - rank books and authors, view average scores for a particular month etc. Use the menu options at the top. I've included
a few of the more interesting options below and to the right as a 'front page'. If you don't find them exciting, hit that back button now. | Top authors (at least 2 books)Avg | Author | No. Books |
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9.76 | J.R.R Tolkien | 25 | 9.63 | Ken Wilber | 8 | 9.50 | John Boyd | 2 | 9.00 | Robert Johnson | 2 | 8.86 | David Zindell | 7 | 8.83 | Philip Jose Farmer | 6 | 8.75 | Stephen Donaldson | 4 | 8.50 | Nicholas Mosley | 2 | 8.50 | Mark Twain | 2 | 8.50 | Leonard Q. Ross | 2 | 8.33 | Jonny Steinberg | 3 | 8.25 | David Eddings | 20 | 8.25 | Kazuo Ishiguro | 4 | 8.14 | Raymond E. Feist | 7 | 8.00 | Hermann Hesse | 8 | 8.00 | "Margaret, Tracy" "Weis, Hickman" | 6 | 8.00 | Vladimir Nabokov | 3 | 8.00 | Nnedi Okorafor | 3 | 8.00 | Robert M. Pirsig | 3 | 8.00 | Tatamkhulu Afrika | 3 |
| Top authors (quantity)Avg | Author | No. Books |
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7.63 | Ursula K. Le Guin | 43 | 5.86 | Various | 35 | 9.76 | J.R.R Tolkien | 25 | 7.14 | Frank Herbert | 22 | 8.25 | David Eddings | 20 | 7.69 | Margaret Atwood | 13 | 7.08 | Isaac Asimov | 12 | 6.45 | Tom Sharpe | 11 | 6.90 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 10 | 6.89 | J.M. Coetzee | 9 | 6.56 | Robert Heinlein | 9 | 9.63 | Ken Wilber | 8 | 8.00 | Hermann Hesse | 8 | 7.75 | Isabel Allende | 8 | 6.38 | Mongane Wally Serote | 8 | 6.38 | Iain M. Banks | 8 | 6.13 | Arthur Conan Doyle | 8 | 6.00 | William Shakespeare | 8 | 8.86 | David Zindell | 7 | 8.14 | Raymond E. Feist | 7 |
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