Most recurrent bestseller genre by country First of all…
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Most recurrent bestseller genre by country
First of all, it's a shame I can't post images here—I had put together a nice little map with the information, but I'll just have to use a table instead.
| Country | Top genre |
|---|---|
| Argentina | Romance |
| Australia | Thriller |
| Austria | Romance |
| Brazil | Romance |
| Bulgaria | Children's |
| Canada | Thriller |
| China | Fantasy |
| Czechia | Thriller |
| Dominican Republic | Romance |
| Egypt | Romance |
| Finland | Fiction |
| France | Romance |
| Germany | Fiction |
| Greece | Fiction |
| Hungary | Thriller |
| Iceland | Mystery |
| India | Romance |
| Ireland | Literary Fiction |
| Israel | Thriller |
| Italy | Romance |
| Japan | Graphic Novel |
| Malaysia | Fantasy |
| Malta | Fiction |
| Mexico | Children's |
| Netherlands | Romance |
| New Zealand | Romance |
| Nigeria | Fantasy |
| Norway | Fiction |
| Philippines | Children's |
| Poland | Romance |
| Portugal | Thriller |
| Romania | Fiction |
| Russia | Romance |
| Singapore | Romance |
| South Africa | Thriller |
| South Korea | Fantasy |
| Spain | Romance |
| Sweden | Romance |
| Switzerland | Thriller |
| Taiwan | Mystery |
| Thailand | Romance |
| Turkey | Fiction |
| Ukraine | Fantasy |
| United Arab Emirates | Thriller |
| United States | Thriller |
This year I spent months traveling to various countries for work, mainly in Europe, and I enjoy visiting bookstores and public libraries. During that time, I had the feeling that with every new country I visited, the literary genre in the spotlight at bookstores changed significantly. I remember when I arrived in the Czech Republic and immediately saw a huge wall of horror and mystery books; in Liverpool, true crime dominated the scene and in Lyon and Antwerp, it was fantasy.
Well, now that I’m back home, I decided to do a quick search to see if I was just too biased by my own views on the local culture and was focusing on genres that reinforced my bias (Yes, I was completely wrong—the best-selling genres are nothing like what I thought)
I grabbed a dataset from Post45 with the bestsellers in each country. Since the book’s genre wasn’t included in the original data, I used Open Library to retrieve the book’s genre, If I couldn't find it, I used the author's predominant gender as a fallback.
In total, I analyzed 7,909 books; in 9% of the cases, I was unable to determine their genre.
I’m tempted to believe that these genres might help identify some kind of cultural trait, but the truth is that consumption of literary media is apparently so low compared to other forms of media that this data may only reflect the tastes of a very small portion of the population—but still, it remains an interesting observation.
#entertainment
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First of all, it's a shame I can't post images here—I had put together a nice little map with the information, but I'll just have to use a table instead.
| Country | Top genre |
|---|---|
| Argentina | Romance |
| Australia | Thriller |
| Austria | Romance |
| Brazil | Romance |
| Bulgaria | Children's |
| Canada | Thriller |
| China | Fantasy |
| Czechia | Thriller |
| Dominican Republic | Romance |
| Egypt | Romance |
| Finland | Fiction |
| France | Romance |
| Germany | Fiction |
| Greece | Fiction |
| Hungary | Thriller |
| Iceland | Mystery |
| India | Romance |
| Ireland | Literary Fiction |
| Israel | Thriller |
| Italy | Romance |
| Japan | Graphic Novel |
| Malaysia | Fantasy |
| Malta | Fiction |
| Mexico | Children's |
| Netherlands | Romance |
| New Zealand | Romance |
| Nigeria | Fantasy |
| Norway | Fiction |
| Philippines | Children's |
| Poland | Romance |
| Portugal | Thriller |
| Romania | Fiction |
| Russia | Romance |
| Singapore | Romance |
| South Africa | Thriller |
| South Korea | Fantasy |
| Spain | Romance |
| Sweden | Romance |
| Switzerland | Thriller |
| Taiwan | Mystery |
| Thailand | Romance |
| Turkey | Fiction |
| Ukraine | Fantasy |
| United Arab Emirates | Thriller |
| United States | Thriller |
This year I spent months traveling to various countries for work, mainly in Europe, and I enjoy visiting bookstores and public libraries. During that time, I had the feeling that with every new country I visited, the literary genre in the spotlight at bookstores changed significantly. I remember when I arrived in the Czech Republic and immediately saw a huge wall of horror and mystery books; in Liverpool, true crime dominated the scene and in Lyon and Antwerp, it was fantasy.
Well, now that I’m back home, I decided to do a quick search to see if I was just too biased by my own views on the local culture and was focusing on genres that reinforced my bias (Yes, I was completely wrong—the best-selling genres are nothing like what I thought)
I grabbed a dataset from Post45 with the bestsellers in each country. Since the book’s genre wasn’t included in the original data, I used Open Library to retrieve the book’s genre, If I couldn't find it, I used the author's predominant gender as a fallback.
In total, I analyzed 7,909 books; in 9% of the cases, I was unable to determine their genre.
I’m tempted to believe that these genres might help identify some kind of cultural trait, but the truth is that consumption of literary media is apparently so low compared to other forms of media that this data may only reflect the tastes of a very small portion of the population—but still, it remains an interesting observation.
#entertainment
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