The Riddle
Of Literary Quality

News Reviews Data and R Package The 401 Books Figure 2.1: Number of books respondents indicated to have read per year Additional figure: Number of read books per year per age group Figure 2.2: Number of books read (left) and number of books rated (right) Figure 2.3: Number of books read per category Additional figure: Number of books read per category Figure 2.4: Mean scores for all 401 books Figure 2.5: For all 401 books the mean score for literary quality per category Figure 2.6: For all 401 books the mean score for general quality per category Figure 2.7: Ratings of Tatiana de Rosnay, Haar naam was Sarah (Sarah’s Key) Figure 2.8: Number of books read, by gender author and gender reader Figure 2.9: Number of books rated, by gender author and gender reader Figure 3.1: The ten novels with the highest and lowest scores for literary quality Figure 3.2: Ratings for the literary quality of E.L. James, Vijftig tinten-trilogie (Fifty Shades Trilogy) Figure 3.3: Fifty Shades and Romance Figure 3.4: E.L. James, the Fifty Shades Trilogy and Suspense written by female authors Additional graphs: Fifty Shades and Suspense witten by male authors Additional graphs: Fifty Shades and Literary novels Figure 3.5: Translated Literary novels written by male authors and three Suspense novels by Mankell Figure 3.6: Literary novels by female authors written in Dutch and translated from English Figure 3.7: Conjunctions in Literary novels by female authors written in Dutch and translated from English Figure 4.1: Ratings of Nicole Krauss, Het grote huis (Great House) Figure 4.2: Ratings of Elizabeth Gilbert, Eten, bidden, beminnen (Eat, Pray, Love) Figure 4.3: Translated Literary novels written by female authors Figure 4.4: Ratings of Emma Donoghue, Kamer (Room) Figure 4.5: Ratings of Heleen van Royen, De mannentester (*The Tester of Men) Figure 4.6: Dutch Literary novels written by female authors (1) Figure 4.7: Dutch Literary novels written by female authors (2) Figure 5.1: Ratings of Julian Barnes, Alsof het voorbij is (The Sense of an Ending) Figure 5.2: Translated Literary novels written by male authors Figure 5.3: Ratings of Erwin Mortier, Gestameld liedboek (Stammered Songbook) Figure 5.4: Ratings of Mart Smeets, De afrekening (*The Reckoning) Figure 5.5: Dutch Literary novels written by male authors Figure 5.6: Ratings of Kluun, Haantjes (*Alpha Males) Figure 5.7: Ratings of Herman Koch, Zomerhuis met zwembad (Summerhouse with Swimming Pool) Figure 5.8: Kluun versus Koch Figure 5.9: Grunberg and Shopaholic Figure 6.1: Mean sentence length for all 401 books and Figure 6.2: Sentence length variation for all 401 books Figure 6.3: Literary quality top 10 of Dutch-language novels by female and male authors Figure 6.4: Literary quality top 10 of Dutch-language novels by female and male authors (1) Figure 6.5: Literary quality top 10 of Dutch-language novels by female and male authors (2) Figure 6.6: Mean sentence length (in words) of Dutch-language Literary novels

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