Analyzing reading platform trends to understand user behavior and market dynamics across different platforms.
Analysis of rating patterns, genre popularity, and user engagement across 1,200 books from Goodreads' most popular lists (2020-2025). Read the full report here.
Key Findings:
- 66% engagement decline from 2022 peak (58.7M ratings) to 2025 (20.1M ratings), suggesting platform migration
- Romance & fantasy dominate publication volume (283 and 275 books respectively), alternating yearly in popularity
- Quality paradox: highest-rated genres (business 4.39★, memoir 4.27★) represent <6% of top lists, while most popular genres (romance, fantasy) average lower ratings
- 2022 anomaly: "review bombing" incidents temporarily spiked engagement while deflating average ratings
Visualizations: See /visualizations for all graphs. Note: some detailed visualizations (like genre trends over time) are best viewed at full size.
Planned: Comparative analysis of reading trends on Fable platform
Data Collection: Python • Selenium • Beautiful Soup
Analysis & Visualization: Pandas • Tableau • Matplotlib • Seaborn