Goodreads is a social networking website for bookworms. Users can search the extremely large database of books, annotations, and reviews. Andy has been using Goodreads since late 2010 to catalog the books he has read. This data, stored in goodreads.csv includes 14 attributes on 653 entries. The attributes are:

  • title: Book title
  • subtitle: Book subtitle
  • series: Book series (and number)
  • author: Primary author of the book
  • my_rating: Andy’s Goodreads rating (on a 5-pt scale)
  • avg_rating: Average Goodreads rating (on a 5-pt scale)
  • publisher: Publishing company
  • binding: Book binding (Hardcover or Paperback)
  • pages: Length of the book (in pages)
  • year_published: Year the book was published
  • month_read: Month Andy finished reading the book
  • month_read_num: Numerical code for month Andy finished reading the book
  • year_read: Year Andy finished reading the book
  • bookshelf: Andy’s Goodreads bookshelf (to-read; currently-reading; read; quit-reading)

Preview

# A tibble: 6 x 13
  title                                  subtitle                                  
  <chr>                                  <chr>                                     
1 Always Looking                         Essays on Art                             
2 Angelopolis                            <NA>                                      
3 Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea <NA>                                      
4 Battle Cry of Freedom                  The Civil War Era                         
5 Between You & Me                       Confessions of a Comma Queen              
6 Blades of Glory                        The True Story of a Young Team Bred to Win
  series         author              my_rating avg_rating publisher             
  <chr>          <chr>                   <dbl>      <dbl> <chr>                 
1 <NA>           Updike, John               NA       3.78 Knopf                 
2 Angelology, #2 Trussoni, Danielle          4       3.34 Penguin               
3 <NA>           Handler, Chelsea            3       3.84 Harper                
4 <NA>           McPherson, James M.         3       4.34 Ballantine Books      
5 <NA>           Norris, Mary                5       3.54 W. W. Norton & Company
6 <NA>           Rosengren, John             4       3.88 Sourcebooks           
  binding   pages year_published month_read year_read bookshelf   
  <chr>     <dbl>          <dbl> <chr>          <dbl> <chr>       
1 Hardcover   224           2012 April           2015 quit-reading
2 Hardcover   320           2013 April           2013 read        
3 Hardcover   264           2007 April           2011 read        
4 Paperback   908           1988 April           2017 read        
5 Hardcover   228           2015 April           2015 read        
6 Paperback   354           2003 April           2018 read

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