Statistics
Total number of countries: 244
Total number of countries with at least one book reviewed: 226
Total number of authors: 1463
Total number of books reviewed: 3316
Total number of women authors: 376
Total number of books reviewed, by women: 786
By country:
(click on column head to sort by that column)
| Country | No/ of authors | No. of books |
|---|---|---|
| Abkhazia | 1 | 2 |
| Afghanistan | 3 | 3 |
| Albania | 2 | 25 |
| Algeria | 11 | 21 |
| Andorra | 1 | 1 |
| Angola | 2 | 2 |
| Antigua | 1 | 1 |
| Argentina | 23 | 66 |
| Armenia | 2 | 2 |
| Assyria | 1 | 1 |
| Aruba | 1 | 1 |
| Australia | 23 | 75 |
| Austria | 18 | 45 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1 |
| Bali | 1 | 1 |
| Bangladesh | 2 | 2 |
| Barbados | 2 | 4 |
| Basque | 3 | 3 |
| Belarus | 2 | 2 |
| Belgium | 9 | 19 |
| Belize | 1 | 1 |
| Benin | 2 | 2 |
| Bermuda | 1 | 1 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1 |
| Bolivia | 3 | 4 |
| Bosnia | 3 | 7 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1 |
| Brazil | 28 | 49 |
| Brittany | 2 | 2 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1 |
| Bulgaria | 4 | 5 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 2 |
| Burma | 1 | 1 |
| Burundi | 2 | 2 |
| Cambodia | 3 | 3 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 7 |
| Canada | 23 | 44 |
| Cape Verde | 2 | 2 |
| Catalonia | 23 | 27 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1 |
| Chad | 1 | 1 |
| Chicano | 2 | 4 |
| Chile | 13 | 29 |
| China | 12 | 22 |
| Colombia | 9 | 16 |
| Comoros | 2 | 2 |
| Congo (Democratic Republic) | 4 | 7 |
| Congo (Republic) | 2 | 3 |
| Corsica | 1 | 1 |
| Costa Rica | 4 | 4 |
| Croatia | 3 | 5 |
| Cuba | 7 | 13 |
| Curaçao | 2 | 2 |
| Cyprus | 3 | 3 |
| Czech Republic | 12 | 30 |
| Dagestan | 1 | 2 |
| Denmark | 5 | 7 |
| Djibouti | 1 | 1 |
| Dominica | 1 | 2 |
| Dominican Republic | 3 | 3 |
| East Timor | 1 | 1 |
| Ecuador | 4 | 5 |
| Egypt | 7 | 19 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1 |
| England | 127 | 524 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1 |
| Eritrea | 1 | 1 |
| Estonia | 3 | 8 |
| Ethiopia | 2 | 2 |
| Faroe Islands | 1 | 1 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1 |
| Finland | 5 | 6 |
| France | 61 | 178 |
| Frisia | 1 | 1 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1 |
| Galicia | 1 | 2 |
| Gambia | 2 | 2 |
| Georgia | 5 | 5 |
| Germany | 41 | 101 |
| Ghana | 2 | 2 |
| Goa | 1 | 1 |
| Greece | 7 | 8 |
| Greenland | 2 | 2 |
| Grenada | 1 | 2 |
| Guadeloupe | 1 | 3 |
| Guatemala | 4 | 6 |
| Guernsey | 1 | 1 |
| Guinea | 1 | 2 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 | 1 |
| Guyana | 3 | 10 |
| Haiti | 2 | 2 |
| Honduras | 1 | 2 |
| Hungary | 12 | 29 |
| Iceland | 16 | 28 |
| India | 20 | 34 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 7 |
| Inuit | 1 | 1 |
| Iran | 5 | 5 |
| Iraq | 2 | 2 |
| Ireland | 32 | 83 |
| Italy | 72 | 145 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 4 |
| Jamaica | 2 | 4 |
| Japan | 34 | 67 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1 |
| Kashmir | 1 | 1 |
| Kashubia | 1 | 1 |
| Kazakhstan | 2 | 2 |
| Kenya | 3 | 8 |
| Kiribati | 1 | 2 |
| Kosovo | 1 | 1 |
| Kurdistan | 2 | 2 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 3 |
| Laos | 2 | 2 |
| Latvia | 3 | 5 |
| Lebanon | 2 | 3 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1 |
| Libya | 1 | 1 |
| Lithuania | 2 | 2 |
| Luxembourg | 2 | 2 |
| Macedonia | 2 | 2 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1 |
| Malawi | 1 | 2 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 3 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1 |
| Mali | 3 | 3 |
| Malta | 1 | 2 |
| Marshall Islands | 1 | 1 |
| Martinique | 2 | 2 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 2 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1 |
| Mexico | 44 | 67 |
| Moldova | 2 | 2 |
| Mongolia | 2 | 2 |
| Montenegro | 2 | 4 |
| Montserrat | 1 | 1 |
| Morocco | 4 | 6 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 3 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1 |
| Nepal | 2 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 10 | 23 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1 |
| New Zealand | 8 | 13 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1 |
| Niger | 2 | 2 |
| Nigeria | 14 | 26 |
| Niue | 1 | 1 |
| North Korea | 1 | 1 |
| Norway | 9 | 18 |
| Nubia | 1 | 1 |
| Occitania | 4 | 4 |
| Oman | 1 | 1 |
| Ossetia | 1 | 1 |
| Pakistan | 4 | 4 |
| Palestine | 5 | 6 |
| Panama | 2 | 2 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 3 |
| Paraguay | 2 | 3 |
| Peru | 12 | 32 |
| Philippines | 3 | 3 |
| Poland | 9 | 20 |
| Portugal | 10 | 36 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | 3 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1 |
| Réunion | 1 | 2 |
| Romania | 10 | 18 |
| Russia | 47 | 80 |
| Rwanda | 2 | 2 |
| Sámi | 1 | 1 |
| Samoa | 1 | 1 |
| San Marino | 1 | 1 |
| São Tomé e Príncipe | 1 | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1 |
| Scotland | 20 | 68 |
| Senegal | 3 | 5 |
| Serbia | 4 | 7 |
| Seychelles | 1 | 1 |
| Sierra Leone | 2 | 2 |
| Singapore | 2 | 2 |
| Slovakia | 3 | 3 |
| Slovenia | 5 | 6 |
| Solomon Islands | 2 | 2 |
| Somalia | 3 | 9 |
| Sorbia | 1 | 1 |
| South Africa | 8 | 29 |
| South Korea | 8 | 11 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1 |
| Spain | 39 | 118 |
| Sri Lanka | 4 | 4 |
| St Kitts | 1 | 1 |
| St Lucia | 1 | 1 |
| St Vincent | 1 | 1 |
| Sudan | 2 | 2 |
| Suriname | 1 | 1 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1 |
| Sweden | 9 | 14 |
| Switzerland | 14 | 28 |
| Syria | 4 | 5 |
| Tahiti | 1 | 1 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 3 |
| Thailand | 1 | 2 |
| Tibet | 1 | 1 |
| Togo | 1 | 1 |
| Tonga | 1 | 1 |
| Trinidad | 4 | 14 |
| Tunisia | 5 | 6 |
| Turkey | 22 | 31 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1 |
| UAE | 2 | 2 |
| Uganda | 3 | 3 |
| Ukraine | 5 | 7 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 4 |
| USA | 172 | 517 |
| Uzbekistan | 2 | 5 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 2 |
| Wales | 10 | 19 |
| Western Sahara | 1 | 1 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1 |
| Zambia | 2 | 2 |
| Zimbabwe | 4 | 6 |
Authors with most books reviewed (minimum 10):
| Author | No. of books |
|---|---|
| César Aira | 33 |
| Ismail Kadare | 22 |
| Neil Gunn | 20 |
| Doris Lessing | 18 |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 18 |
| Henry Williamson | 18 |
| William Faulkner | 17 |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | 17 |
| James Hanley | 16 |
| Geoff Nicholson | 16 |
| Jun’ichiro Tanizaki | 16 |
| Joseph Conrad | 15 |
| Don DeLillo | 15 |
| Ian McEwan | 15 |
| Anthony Powell | 15 |
| Jorge Amado | 14 |
| Anthony Burgess | 14 |
| J M Coetzee | 14 |
| Graham Greene | 14 |
| Enrique Vila-Matas | 14 |
| Lawrence Durrell | 13 |
| Thomas Mann | 13 |
| Dorothy Richardson | 13 |
| Naguib Mahfouz | 12 |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 12 |
| Richard Powers | 12 |
| Evelyn Waugh | 12 |
| Peter Ackroyd | 11 |
| Peter Handke | 11 |
| José Saramago | 11 |
| John Banville | 10 |
| Italo Calvino | 10 |
| Willa Cather | 10 |
| Robert Coover | 10 |
| Ford Madox Ford | 10 |
| David Ireland | 10 |
| Javier Marías | 10 |
| Patrick Modiano | 10 |
| Amélie Nothomb | 10 |