Book Rankings i I 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
Showing 127 books in Science Fiction
BT: 10.06
217 comparisons
T
BT: 1.07
1162 comparisons
T
BT: 0.51
1657 comparisons
G
BT: 0.43
1225 comparisons
S
BT: 0.38
1146 comparisons
T
BT: 0.20
1701 comparisons
H
BT: -0.10
347 comparisons
D
BT: -0.19
335 comparisons
F
BT: -0.20
591 comparisons
E
BT: -0.21
371 comparisons
L
BT: -0.32
1056 comparisons
S
BT: -0.34
374 comparisons
T
BT: -0.55
338 comparisons
R
BT: -0.56
364 comparisons
T
BT: -0.60
360 comparisons
T
BT: -0.67
402 comparisons
M
BT: -0.78
547 comparisons
T
BT: -0.79
519 comparisons
F
BT: -0.82
700 comparisons
H
BT: -0.82
780 comparisons
A
BT: -0.85
363 comparisons
Y
BT: -0.90
670 comparisons
T
BT: -0.93
1017 comparisons
E
BT: -0.94
852 comparisons
E
BT: -0.96
489 comparisons
D
BT: -1.01
860 comparisons
E
BT: -1.03
389 comparisons
I
BT: -1.03
415 comparisons
C
BT: -1.04
373 comparisons
I
BT: -1.10
658 comparisons
A
BT: -1.15
348 comparisons
F
BT: -1.24
384 comparisons
B
BT: -1.28
391 comparisons
M
BT: -1.31
430 comparisons
T
BT: -1.36
730 comparisons
T
BT: -1.39
365 comparisons
R
BT: -1.43
365 comparisons
T
BT: -1.47
345 comparisons
T
BT: -1.58
951 comparisons
T
BT: -1.66
1458 comparisons
D
BT: -1.66
369 comparisons
X
BT: -1.69
639 comparisons
N
BT: -1.73
384 comparisons
E
BT: -1.74
576 comparisons
E
BT: -1.89
377 comparisons
O
BT: -2.04
396 comparisons
C
BT: -2.12
360 comparisons
T
BT: -2.17
1039 comparisons
Y
BT: -2.22
2502 comparisons
A
BT: -2.27
335 comparisons
J
BT: -2.30
364 comparisons
F
BT: -2.31
626 comparisons
T
BT: -2.40
1116 comparisons
A
BT: -2.54
434 comparisons
H
BT: -2.58
348 comparisons
T
BT: -2.71
461 comparisons
W
BT: -2.75
337 comparisons
T
BT: -2.75
273 comparisons
J
BT: -2.76
326 comparisons
T
BT: -2.88
256 comparisons
I
BT: -3.04
2636 comparisons
T
BT: -3.06
353 comparisons
A
BT: -3.12
574 comparisons
I
BT: -3.22
328 comparisons
B
BT: -3.24
577 comparisons
1
BT: -3.38
529 comparisons
N
BT: -3.56
785 comparisons
D
BT: -3.90
302 comparisons
S
BT: -3.92
298 comparisons
S
BT: -4.49
174 comparisons
G
BT: -4.63
162 comparisons
T
BT: -4.68
141 comparisons
O
BT: -4.69
159 comparisons
A
BT: -4.82
188 comparisons
S
BT: -4.84
159 comparisons
N
BT: -5.12
106 comparisons
F
BT: -5.27
132 comparisons
