User-Selected Classic Books across Douban and Goodreads

This dataset includes parallel book review data (e.g., URLs, book titles, numbers of reviews, average book ratings) about 144 classics selected by book reviewers on Goodreads (Walsh & Antoniak, 2021) and 141 classics selected by book reviewers on Douban (Hu et al., 2023) across the two platforms.

Our findings based on this dataset will be pubslihed in the forthcoming article:

Hu, Y., Underwood, T., Layne-Worthey, G., & Downie, J. S. (in print). Comparative Analysis of Classics Book Review Data Created by Users Across Douban and Goodreads. Digital Scholarship in Humanities.

References:

Hu, Y., LeBlanc, Z., Diesner, J., Underwood, T., Layne-Worthey, G., and Downie, J. S. (2024) ‘Complexities of leveraging user-generated book reviews for scholarly research: Transiency, power dynamics, and cultural dependency’, International Journal on Digital Libraries, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00376-z.

Walsh, M., and Antoniak, M. (2021) ‘The Goodreads “Classics”: A Computational Study of Readers, Amazon, and Crowdsourced Amateur Criticism’, Journal of Cultural Analytics, 6(2), https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.22221.