Marginal Revolution Book Rankings

Tyler and Alex's favorites from Marginal Revolution

How it works: I scraped every post categorized under 'books'. Then extracted book titles and relevant review context from each post. I then submitted a couple million pairs of reviews to an LLM to compare and determine which book review had more positive sentiment. I used these comparisons to fit a Bradley-Terry model which produces these rankings. I racked up a gemini bill so stopped shy of exhaustive 16 million comparisons, so it's not perfect, but roughly accurate.

Genre: History ×
Showing 1863 books in History
A
BT: -0.55 1443 comparisons
N
BT: -1.20 979 comparisons
M
BT: -1.22 1044 comparisons
F
1331. Fraud
BT: -1.58 384 comparisons
T
BT: -1.89 8246 comparisons
P
BT: -3.69 766 comparisons
A
BT: -3.72 328 comparisons
E
1807. Edison
BT: -4.14 223 comparisons