Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels discussion

Hugo & Nebula: Best Novels. Group achievements of 2019:

Total novels read: 23
Monthly Reads pages read: 9,511
Challenges, pages read: 6,552
Total Pages: 16,063
Most read author: Kurt Vonnegut and Neil Gaiman
Total challenges pledged/completed: 81/130
Total new members: 395
The most discussed book: Nova Express
The least discussed book: Have Space Suit—Will Travel
The longest book read: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 1006pg
The shortest book read: Tea with the Black Dragon 128pg
Book with the highest rating read:
The Sirens of Titan 4.16 · Rating details · 104,865 ratings · 4,306 reviews
Cat's Cradle4.16 · Rating details · 323,078 ratings · 10,066 reviews
Book with the lowest rating read: Blackfish City
3.59 · Rating details · 4,804 ratings · 857 reviews
Total Hugos read: 25
Total Nebulas read: 26
Total Related reads: 3

Very interesting! The unreadable book gets the largest discussion; Both highest rating go to Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Nebula, which was introduced later still beats Hugo by # of read books!

We did well in 2019, some pretty impressive stats, especially in the challenge participant turnout.

This is neat :D Where do you get these stats from? E.g. most read author - is that most read on Goodreads all time, most read on Goodreads this year, most read by members of the group this year, or something else?

I think Vonnegut and Gaiman both had two books voted as monthly reads in 2019 -- Cat's Cradle/Sirens of Titan for Vonnegut and Ocean at the End of the Lane/American Gods for Gaiman. It's just a guess but I think that's how they came to be "most read" - by the group.

I blinked when I saw the line "Total new members: 395". I didn't realize we even had 395 members, let alone 395 *new* members. When I joined in 2018 I think the membership count was still in double digits. And now it's 680!

Antti wrote: "When I joined in 2017 I think the membership count was still in double..."

We even had a competition to celebrate the first hundred!

The first hundred -- that sounds like a reference to Red Mars :)

Antti wrote: "I blinked when I saw the line "Total new members: 395". I didn't realize we even had 395 members, let alone 395 *new* members. When I joined in 2017 I think the membership count was still in double..."

I also kicked about 40 bots last year, had one or two join every other week

Art, should you look for bots again? Can you teach me how? I think you talked about this a little before, but I forgot . . .

I didn’t get to participate much last year but this year should be different :) this is one of the best goodreads groups

Kalin wrote: "The first hundred -- that sounds like a reference to Red Mars :)"

or 1/3 of 300 Spartans :)

We did a 300 member $$$ Giveaway as well. The next one will be at a thousand, so stay tuned ;D