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1st January 2024, 06:23 am
A list of books I finished reading in the last 12 months:
- Bad Religion mit Jim Ruland: Die Bad Religion Story – Do What You Want
- James Corey: Persepolis erhebt sich
- James Corey: Tiamats Zorn
- James Corey: Leviathan Falls
- Paulo Coelho: Veronika beschließt zu sterben
- Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett & Mike Rutherford: Chapter & Verse – Das Buch Genesis
- Elizabeth McKenzie: MacGregor Tells the World
- Matt Forbeck: The Con Job
- Emma Haughton: The Dark
- Alex Michaelides: The Silent Patient
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1st January 2023, 02:17 pm
A list of books I finished reading in the last 12 months:
- Andy Weir: Der Astronaut
- Ozzie Adenborg: We Came to Rock – The Official Pretty Maids Journals
- J. Michael Straczynski: Together We Will Go
- Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows: Deine Juliet
- Michael Palin: Erebus
- James P. Hogan: Inherit the Stars
- Hank Green: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
- Jeff Wagner: Destination Onward – The Story of Fates Warning
- Roy Gullane: Goulash Soup and Chips
- Dar Williams: What I Found in a Thousand Towns
- Volker Quaschning & Cornelia Quaschning: Energierevolution jetzt!
- Dar Williams: How to Write a Song that Matters
- Chris Hadfield: Die Apollo-Morde
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1st January 2020, 05:07 pm
A list of books I finished reading in the last 12 months:
- Robert Jordan: Crossroads of Twilight
- Wolf Welling: Die Wächterin
- Robert Jordan: Knife of Dreams
- Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson: The Gathering Storm
- Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson: Towers of Midnight
- John Strelecky: Das Café am Rande der Welt
- Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson: A Memory of Light
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1st January 2019, 12:17 pm
A list of books I finished reading in the last 12 months:
- Christoph Hardebusch: Feuerstimmen
- Flake: Heute hat die Welt Geburtstag
- John Green: Schlaft gut, ihr fiesen Gedanken
- Robert Jordan: Lord of Chaos
- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
- A. Lee Martinez: Zu viele Flüche
- Robert Jordan: New Spring
- Ernest Cline: Armada
- Robert Jordan: Der Weg der Klingen
- Stanislaw Lem: Der Mensch vom Mars
- Annie Darling: The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts
- Robert Jordan: Winter’s Heart
- Tom Winter: Der Sirius-Schatten
- Jana Burbach & Hernán D. Caro: Stimmlos
- Becky Albertalli: The Upside of Unrequited
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1st January 2018, 06:58 am
A list of books I finished reading in the last 12 months:
- Christoph Weißenfels: Ischen Impossible II
- Hagen Liebing: Meine Jahre mit “Die Ärzte”
- Ernest Clive: Ready Player One
- DJ BoBo & Judith Langhans: Popstar – Der ganz normale Wahnsinn
- Jessica Winter: Break in Case of Emergency
- Mischa Kaléko: Das lyrische Stenogrammheft
- Benedict Wells: Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
- Markus Zusak: Die Bücherdiebin
- Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl
- Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident
- Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code
- Wolfgang Hohlbein & Heike Hohlbein: Der Greif
- Tommy Jaud: Vollidiot
- Robert Jordan: The Great Hunt
- Trudi Canavan: The Magician’s Guild
- Andreas Eschbach: Exponentialdrift
- John Fogerty: Mein Leben – meine Musik
- Robert Jordan: The Dragon Reborn
- Lois Tilton: Babylon 5: Im Kreuzfeuer
- Trudi Canavan: The Novice
- Trudi Canavan: The High Lord
- Isolde Heyne: Lösegeld
- John Vornholt: Babylon 5: Tödliche Gedanken
- John Vornholt: Babylon 5: Blutschwur
- Mape Ollila: Once Upon a Nightwish – Die offizielle Biografie 1996-2006
- Ingo Siegner: Der kleine Drache Kokosnuss auf der Suche nach Atlantis
- Felix Huby: Bienzle und die schöne Lau
- Felix Huby: Paul Pepper und die tickende Bombe
- Felix Huby: Bienzle stochert im Nebel
- Janusz A. Zajdel: In Sonnennähe
- Robert Jordan: The Shadow Rising
- Andy Weir: Artemis
- Robert Jordan: Die Feuer des Himmels
- Bruce Dickinson: What Does This Button Do?
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1st January 2017, 11:24 am
A list of books I finished reading in the last 12 months:
- Poul Anderson: Rebellenwelt
- Peter Ames Carlin: Bruce
- Bronnie Ware: 5 Dinge, die Sterbende am meisten bereuen
- Poul Anderson: Ehrenwerte Feinde
- Frank Böttcher & Sven Plöger: Klimafakten
- Michael Schumacher: Tankard – Life in Beermuda
- Ashlee Vance: Elon Musk – How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Is Shaping Our Future
- Max Frisch: Homo Faber
- Jojo Moyes: Me Before You
- Götz Aly: Unser Kampf 1968
- Javier Marías: Die sterblich Verliebten
- Grady Hendrix: Horrorstör
- Joël Dicker: The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
- Max Frisch: Stiller
- Meghann Foye: Lügen haben runde Bäuche
- Elizabeth McKenzie: The Portable Veblen
- Frank Portman: King Dork
- David Safier: Mieses Karma
- Julia Neumann: Odins Auge
- Bernd Groot-Wilken, Kevin Isaac & Jörg-Peter Schräpler (Hrsg.): Sozialindices für Schulen
- Andy Weir: The Martian
- Roger Willemsen: Das Hohe Haus
- Marie Fredriksson & Helena von Zweigbergk: Listen to My Heart – Meine Liebe zum Leben
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1st January 2016, 06:19 am
A list of books I finished reading in the last 12 months:
- Philipp Oehmke: Am Anfang war der Lärm
- Frank Portman: King Dork Approximately
- Poul Anderson: Dominic Flandry: Im Dienst der Erde
- Andy Weir: The Martian
- Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
- Jean Philippe Blondel: 6 Uhr 41
- Charles Murray: The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead
- Poul Anderson: Höllenzirkus
- Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven
- Marc Elsberg: Blackout
- Florian Illies: 1913
- James Rollins: The 6th Extinction
- John Scalzi: Lock In
- Matthew Brzezinski: Red Moon Rising – Sputnik and the Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age
- Sina Trinkwalder: Wunder muss man selber machen
- Donald A. Wollheim: The Secret of the Ninth Planet
- Ben Mezrich: Sex on the Moon
- Dave Eggers: Eure Väter, wo sind sie? Und die Propheten, leben sie ewig?
- David Baldacci: The Escape
- David Baldacci: Total Control
- Susanne Schäpler: Das Geheimnis der Naga
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1st January 2015, 08:54 am
A list of books I finished reading in the last 12 months:
- Elizabeth Wein: Code Name Verity
- Matt Forbeck: The Con Job
- Jürgen Becker: Geld allein macht nicht unglücklich: Mit dem Mysterium des rheinischen Kapitalismus aus der Krise
- Andrew F. Gulli, Lamia J. Gulli (Hg.): Letzte Ruhe
- Ian J. Deary: Intelligenz – eine sehr kurze Einführung
- Rich Wilson: Lifting Shadows
- Keith DeCandido: The Zoo Job
- Detlev H. Rost: Handbuch Intelligenz
- Dieter E. Zimmer: Ist Intelligenz erblich? Eine Klarstellung
- Dar Williams: Lights, Camera, Amalee
- Christoph Weißenfels: Ischen Impossible
- Timothy Zahn: Erben des Imperiums
- Jack Ritchie: Für alle ungezogenen Leute
- Frederick Forsyth: Die Todesliste
- Paul McAuley: The Quiet War
- Michael Marten: Drei Klausuren und ein Todesfall
- Isaac Asimov: Ich, der Robot
- Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones’s Diary
- Chris Hadfield: Anleitung zur Schwerelosigkeit: Was wir im All fürs Leben lernen können
- Simon Garfield: On the Map
- Timothy Gowers: Mathematik
- Marc Lindemann: Unter Beschuss
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Romulus der Grosse
- Neil LaBute: The Mercy Seat
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1st January 2014, 10:28 am
A list of books I finished reading in the last 12 months:
- Patricia Highsmith: Zwei Fremde im Zug
- Theresa Couchman: The Unmapped Lands
- Elizabeth George: A Suitable Vengeance
- Khaled Hosseini: Drachenläufer
- Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach
- Marc-Uwe Kling: Die Känguru-Chroniken
- Greg Cox: The Bestseller Job
- Elizabeth George: For the Sake of Elena
- Bertram Job: Bis zum bitteren Ende – Die Toten Hosen erzählen IHRE Geschichte
- Allan Pease, Barbara Pease: Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps
- Johan Harstad: 172 Hours on the Moon
- Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookshop
- Robert Galbraith: The Cuckoo’s Calling
- José Carlos Somoza: Das Einstein-Projekt
- Winston Graham: Marnie
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30th May 2013, 10:05 pm
Apparently, the amount of ratings on GoodReads.com is highly correlated with the ratings, at least for John Green’s four novels (r = .96). But is it really ‘the more, the merrier’? I picked four more authors (in a non-random fashion), had a look at the respective correlations for their novels, and made a couple of graphs to illustrate the results.
Novels by John Green, Maureen Johnson, J.K. Rowling, and Stephanie Meyer
The relationship is a negative one for Stephanie Meyer’s books. Two books of J.K. Rowling are outliers – her first one in terms of ratings on GoodReads, her most recent one in terms of rating. I therefore took the liberty to plot a quadratic fit (instead of a linear fit). It appears that John Green might be an exception (like the Mongols?) Also, Amazon.com ratings tend to be higher; and again, there is no clear relationship between the amount of reviews and the average rating.
And since I recently finished reading “On Chesil Beach”, here’s the data for Ian McEwan’s novels, along with a more appropriately scaled plot for Maureen Johnson’s books:
Novels by Maureen Johnson and Ian McEwan
By the way, the correlation between Amazon.com ratings and GoodReads.com ratings for the 40 books I used above is r = .89. The correlation between number of Amazon.com reviews and Goodreads.com ratings is r = .75.
PS: If anyone is interested in the Stata code for the graphs, let me know. I guess, I’ll add it here this weekend, anyway, but right now I should go to bed.