Book Rankings iI scraped marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/category/books. I used gemini-2.5-flash because it's affordable and llama is too slow on my macbook. I had it first extract book titles from posts. I then had it compare two books at a time to see which review expressed a stronger positive sentiment. There are roughly 24.5 million such comparisons to do for an exhaustive set, but I already racked up a decent bill on gemini with 2 million comparisons so I stopped there. Thus the rankings are roughly accurate but not necessarily extremely precise. You shouldn't necessarily interpret book #5 as being better than book #6, but moreso books #1-10 being better than books #10-20.

Tyler Cowen's favorites from Marginal Revolution

Genre: Fiction ×
Showing 903 books in Fiction
H
BT: 6.23 361 comparisons
B
BT: 5.62 127 comparisons
Y
BT: 4.60 198 comparisons
Z
BT: 4.43 168 comparisons
T
BT: 4.00 165 comparisons
T
BT: 3.35 197 comparisons
C
BT: 3.07 237 comparisons
A
BT: 2.78 220 comparisons
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125. War
BT: 2.77 256 comparisons
P
BT: 2.48 499 comparisons
M
BT: 2.13 275 comparisons
S
BT: 1.99 480 comparisons
U
BT: 1.44 258 comparisons
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253. Lucy
BT: 0.93 315 comparisons
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260. Binti
BT: 0.84 279 comparisons
S
BT: 0.84 300 comparisons
T
BT: 0.80 335 comparisons
C
BT: 0.62 408 comparisons
T
BT: 0.61 314 comparisons
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304. Trust
BT: 0.42 353 comparisons
T
BT: 0.42 308 comparisons
B
BT: 0.22 330 comparisons
A
BT: 0.19 847 comparisons
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346. 2666
BT: 0.05 998 comparisons
P
BT: -0.07 330 comparisons
D
BT: -0.19 335 comparisons
E
BT: -0.21 371 comparisons
E
BT: -0.48 333 comparisons
T
BT: -0.49 334 comparisons
J
BT: -0.49 396 comparisons
R
BT: -0.56 364 comparisons
B
BT: -0.58 355 comparisons
C
BT: -0.63 364 comparisons
T
BT: -0.65 380 comparisons
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433. LOTR
BT: -0.65 399 comparisons
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BT: -0.67 327 comparisons
T
BT: -0.69 365 comparisons
H
BT: -0.82 780 comparisons
O
BT: -0.84 359 comparisons
2
BT: -0.84 310 comparisons
E
BT: -0.94 852 comparisons
S
BT: -0.99 371 comparisons
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493. Dune
BT: -1.01 860 comparisons
T
BT: -1.02 376 comparisons
E
BT: -1.03 389 comparisons
H
BT: -1.06 385 comparisons
N
BT: -1.20 979 comparisons
M
BT: -1.31 430 comparisons
D
BT: -1.39 591 comparisons
O
BT: -1.43 745 comparisons
R
BT: -1.43 365 comparisons
G
BT: -1.52 1492 comparisons
L
BT: -1.64 359 comparisons
D
BT: -1.66 369 comparisons
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586. Eon
BT: -1.74 576 comparisons
E
BT: -1.84 383 comparisons
A
BT: -2.02 381 comparisons
L
BT: -2.03 2130 comparisons
T
BT: -2.10 380 comparisons
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628. Congo
BT: -2.12 360 comparisons
V
BT: -2.23 462 comparisons
A
BT: -2.27 335 comparisons
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650. Trick
BT: -2.32 353 comparisons
A
BT: -2.38 369 comparisons
T
BT: -2.40 1116 comparisons
L
BT: -2.46 367 comparisons
G
BT: -2.76 301 comparisons
G
BT: -2.81 917 comparisons
T
BT: -2.87 321 comparisons
W
BT: -2.96 321 comparisons
A
BT: -2.97 329 comparisons
S
BT: -2.98 305 comparisons
I
BT: -3.04 2636 comparisons
T
BT: -3.04 3416 comparisons
S
BT: -3.12 266 comparisons
A
BT: -3.12 574 comparisons
N
BT: -3.20 320 comparisons
B
BT: -3.23 305 comparisons
B
BT: -3.27 367 comparisons
W
BT: -3.28 188 comparisons
R
BT: -3.37 314 comparisons
J
BT: -3.43 318 comparisons
L
BT: -3.46 232 comparisons
M
BT: -3.63 321 comparisons
S
BT: -3.63 206 comparisons
N
BT: -3.71 327 comparisons
P
BT: -3.76 279 comparisons
S
BT: -3.92 298 comparisons
H
BT: -3.96 307 comparisons
A
BT: -4.05 202 comparisons
S
BT: -4.49 174 comparisons
T
BT: -4.68 141 comparisons
O
BT: -4.69 159 comparisons
T
BT: -4.93 227 comparisons
N
865. Next
BT: -5.12 106 comparisons
B
BT: -5.55 92 comparisons
T
BT: -5.85 104 comparisons
N
BT: -5.86 85 comparisons
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891. Solar
BT: -6.28 111 comparisons