The Mookse and the Gripes discussion

Usual rules - one entry per person, no general chat, use edit comment in desktop mode to update your lists

These are the shortlisted books.

Somebody Loves You by mona arshi (And Other Stories)
Seven Steeples by Sara Baume (Tramp Press)
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer (Picador)
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi (Faber & Faber)
There Are More Things by Yara Rodrigues Fowler (Fleet)
Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams (Fitzcarraldo Editions)

My adjusted weightings method:

Pos, Book, Average, Adjusted, Count, First Places, STD
1, Somebody Loves You by mona arshi, 2.44, 1.67, 9, 2, 0.55
2, Seven Steeples by Sara Baume, 2.30, 1.86, 10, 2, 0.70
3, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer, 2.50, 2.04, 10, 4, 0.86
4, Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi, 3.75, 2.89, 8, 1, 0.89
5, Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams, 4.29, 3.43, 7, 1, 0.99
6, There Are More Things by Yara Rodrigues Fowler, 4.80, 3.98, 5, 0, 0.94

Paul-style aggregate of comparisons

Pos, Book, Average, Relative ranking, Count, First Places
1, Seven Steeples by Sara Baume, 2.30, 13, 10, 2
2, Somebody Loves You by mona arshi, 2.44, 12, 9, 2
3, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer, 2.50, 9, 10, 4
4, Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi, 3.75, -6, 8, 1
5, There Are More Things by Yara Rodrigues Fowler, 4.80, -14, 5, 0
5, Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams, 4.29, -14, 7, 1

1 Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
2 Seven Steeples
3 Somebody Loves You
4 Diego Garcia*
6 Peaces*

Links are to my reviews

* - not reviewed yet

1. Diego Garcia
2. Peaces
3. Somebody Loves You
4. Seven Steeples
5. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

1. Somebody Loves You
2. Seven Steeples
3. Diego Garcia
4. Peaces
5. Maps of our Spectacular Bodies
6. There Are More Things

1. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
2. Somebody Loves You
3. Seven Steeples
4. Peaces
5. Diego Garcia
6. There Are More Things

1. Somebody Loves You
2. Seven Steeples
3. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

1. Maps of our Spectacular Bodies
2. Seven Steeples

1. Seven Steeples
2. Maps of our Spectacular Bodies
3. Somebody Loves You
4. Peaces
5. There are More Things
6. Diego Garcia

1. Seven Steeples
2. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
3. Somebody Loves You @
4. Peaces
5. Diego Garcia

@ updated Nov 4, 2022

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies - 5*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Somebody Loves You – 4*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Seven Steeples – 4*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
There Are More Things – 4*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Peaces – 4*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Diego Garcia – 3*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Great stuff. Big thumbs up to all but #5.

1. Peaces (4*)
2. Seven Steeples (4*)
3. Somebody Loves You (4*)
4. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (4*)
5. There Are More Things (2*)