Statistics

Total number of countries: 245
Total number of countries with at least one book reviewed: 228
Total number of authors: 1707
Total number of books reviewed: 3691
Total number of women authors: 456
Total number of books reviewed, by women: 886

By country:
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Country No. of authors No. of books
Abkhazia 1 2
Afghanistan 3 3
Albania 2 27
Algeria 13 23
Andorra 1 1
Angola 2 2
Antigua 1 1
Argentina 24 70
Armenia 2 2
Assyria 1 1
Aruba 1 1
Australia 23 75
Austria 20 52
Azerbaijan 1 1
Bahamas 1 1
Bahrain 1 1
Bali 1 1
Bangladesh 2 2
Barbados 2 4
Basque 3 3
Belarus 3 3
Belgium 10 23
Belize 1 1
Benin 2 2
Bermuda 1 1
Bhutan 1 1
Bolivia 3 4
Bosnia 5 11
Botswana 1 1
Brazil 30 52
Brittany 2 2
Brunei 1 1
Bulgaria 4 6
Burkina Faso 2 2
Burma 1 1
Burundi 2 2
Cambodia 3 3
Cameroon 5 7
Canada 23 44
Cape Verde 2 2
Catalonia 31 39
Central African Republic 2 2
Chad 1 1
Chicano 3 5
Chile 14 31
China 16 27
Chukotka 1 1
Colombia 11 18
Comoros 2 2
Congo (Democratic Republic) 4 7
Congo (Republic) 3 4
Corsica 1 1
Costa Rica 5 6
Croatia 4 7
Cuba 8 14
Curaçao 2 2
Cyprus 3 3
Czech Republic 17 36
Dagestan 1 3
Denmark 7 9
Djibouti 1 1
Dominica 1 2
Dominican Republic 3 3
East Timor 1 1
Ecuador 4 5
Egypt 11 24
El Salvador 2 2
England 129 541
Equatorial Guinea 1 1
Eritrea 1 1
Estonia 4 9
Ethiopia 2 2
Faroe Islands 1 1
Fiji 1 1
Finland 6 7
France 73 197
Frisia 1 1
Gabon 1 1
Galicia 2 3
Gambia 2 2
Georgia 7 8
Germany 51 117
Ghana 2 2
Goa 1 1
Greece 8 9
Greenland 2 2
Grenada 1 2
Guadeloupe 1 4
Guatemala 4 6
Guernsey 1 1
Guinea 1 2
Guinea-Bissau 2 2
Guyana 3 10
Haiti 2 2
Honduras 1 2
Hungary 13 40
Iceland 16 29
India 20 34
Indonesia 3 7
Inuit 1 1
Iran 6 6
Iraq 4 4
Ireland 38 90
Italy 78 152
Ivory Coast 2 4
Jamaica 2 4
Japan 41 80
Jordan 1 1
Kashmir 1 1
Kashubia 1 1
Kazakhstan 3 3
Kenya 3 9
Kiribati 1 2
Kosovo 1 1
Kurdistan 2 3
Kuwait 1 1
Kyrgyzstan 2 3
Laos 2 2
Latvia 4 6
Lebanon 3 4
Lesotho 1 1
Liberia 1 1
Libya 2 3
Liechtenstein 1 1
Lithuania 3 3
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 2 3
Mauritius 2 2
Mexico 47 76
Moldova 2 2
Mongolia 2 2
Montenegro 2 4
Montserrat 1 1
Morocco 6 8
Mozambique 1 5
Namibia 2 2
Nepal 2 2
Netherlands 10 25
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 33 51
Nubia 1 1
Occitania 5 5
Oman 1 1
Ossetia 1 1
Pakistan 4 4
Palestine 8 9
Panama 2 2
Papua New Guinea 3 3
Paraguay 2 3
Peru 13 33
Philippines 3 3
Poland 12 23
Portugal 13 39
Puerto Rico 2 3
Qatar 1 1
Réunion 1 2
Romania 31 40
Russia 57 73
Rwanda 2 2
Sámi 1 1
Samoa 1 1
San Marino 1 1
São Tomé e Príncipe 1 1
Saudi Arabia 3 3
Scotland 21 71
Senegal 4 6
Serbia 5 8
Seychelles 1 1
Sierra Leone 2 2
Singapore 2 2
Slovakia 4 4
Slovenia 8 9
Solomon Islands 2 2
Somalia 3 9
Sorbia 1 1
South Africa 10 32
South Korea 12 15
South Sudan 1 1
Spain 43 130
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 15
Switzerland 15 29
Syria 5 6
Tahiti 1 1
Taiwan 4 4
Tajikistan 1 1
Tanzania 1 4
Thailand 1 2
Tibet 1 1
Togo 1 1
Tonga 1 1
Trinidad 4 14
Tunisia 6 7
Turkey 26 36
Turkmenistan 1 1
UAE 2 2
Uganda 3 3
Uighur 1 1
Ukraine 29 36
Uruguay 3 6
USA 172 526
Uzbekistan 3 7
Venezuela 2 2
Vietnam 1 2
Wales 11 20
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 35
Ismail Kadare 24
Neil Gunn 20
Doris Lessing 18
Joyce Carol Oates 18
Henry Williamson 18
William Faulkner 17
Mario Vargas Llosa 17
Don DeLillo 16
James Hanley 16
Geoff Nicholson 16
Jun’ichiro Tanizaki 16
Joseph Conrad 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
Patrick Modiano 13
Amélie Nothomb 13
Dorothy Richardson 13
Naguib Mahfouz 12
Vladimir Nabokov 12
Richard Powers 12
Evelyn Waugh 12
Peter Ackroyd 11
Peter Handke 11
Javier Marías 11
José Saramago 11
Ellis Sharp 11
John Banville 10
Italo Calvino 10
Willa Cather 10
Robert Coover 10
Ford Madox Ford 10
David Ireland 10
Ali Smith