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: Literary Fiction ×
Showing 635 books in Literary Fiction
Y
BT: 4.60 198 comparisons
T
BT: 3.35 197 comparisons
C
BT: 3.07 237 comparisons
A
BT: 2.78 220 comparisons
M
BT: 2.13 275 comparisons
U
BT: 1.44 258 comparisons
S
BT: 0.84 300 comparisons
T
BT: 0.61 314 comparisons
T
228. Trust
BT: 0.42 353 comparisons
A
BT: 0.19 847 comparisons
2
254. 2666
BT: 0.05 998 comparisons
P
BT: -0.07 330 comparisons
T
BT: -0.49 334 comparisons
T
BT: -0.65 380 comparisons
S
BT: -0.67 327 comparisons
O
BT: -0.84 359 comparisons
2
BT: -0.84 310 comparisons
S
BT: -0.99 371 comparisons
H
BT: -1.06 385 comparisons
N
BT: -1.20 979 comparisons
D
BT: -1.39 591 comparisons
O
BT: -1.43 745 comparisons
L
BT: -1.64 359 comparisons
A
BT: -2.02 381 comparisons
L
BT: -2.03 2130 comparisons
V
BT: -2.23 462 comparisons
T
463. Trick
BT: -2.32 353 comparisons
S
BT: -2.98 305 comparisons
S
BT: -3.12 266 comparisons
L
BT: -3.25 318 comparisons
W
BT: -3.28 188 comparisons
M
BT: -3.28 331 comparisons
R
BT: -3.37 314 comparisons
L
BT: -3.46 232 comparisons
P
BT: -3.76 279 comparisons
H
BT: -3.96 307 comparisons
A
BT: -4.05 202 comparisons
T
BT: -4.93 227 comparisons
T
BT: -5.85 104 comparisons
N
BT: -5.86 85 comparisons
S
625. Solar
BT: -6.28 111 comparisons