Good read books

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26Winter
data: books.csv
Author

Elin, Angela, Ali

Published

July 16, 2026

Introduction

The data shows average rating between 1900 and 2020 and how many people rated books over this time of period.

Visualise it

The text reviews count increased slightly for books released from 1980, and sharpened between 2000 and 2010, and decreased from 2010 to 2020.

The average rating for books over the 120 year period stayed fairly consistent, between approximately 3.5 to 5. There were some outliers in the 1980 to 2010 period, with ratings of 0.