By the Numbers
The club, measured
Everything we could count about 75 books.
- pages in the average book
- 348
- different authors
- 73
- days between meetings
- 59
- of our books are fiction
- 57%
The Knights Compared
| Knight | Picks | Pages | Avg. length | Avg. year published | Fiction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | 19 | 7,188 | 378 pp | 2010 | 37% |
| Brian | 18 | 6,267 | 348 pp | 2014 | 67% |
| Eric | 19 | 5,437 | 302 pp | 2002 | 68% |
| Ryan | 19 | 6,885 | 362 pp | 2013 | 58% |
Bold marks the highest in each column. Publication years are for the edition we read.
Records
- Longest The House of Leaves 709 pages
- Shortest Robert E. Lee and Me 150 pages
- Oldest The Thirty Nine Steps Published 1915
- Newest The Wager Published 2023
Year by Year
Books discussed each year.
When They Were Written
Books by the decade they were published. Dates come from the edition we read, so reissues skew newer.
Fiction & Nonfiction
- Fiction 43 (57%)
- Nonfiction 32 (43%)
Pace
- days on average
- 59
- shortest gap, in days
- 20
- longest gap, in days
- 149
The longest wait was between The Hike and The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
Encore Authors
- Andy Weir 2 books: The Martian, Artemis
- David Grann 2 books: Killers of the Flower Moon, The Wager