Revisiting the relevance of traditional genres: a network analysis of fiction readers' preferences

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05080v1
• Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 07:31:56 GMT
• Title: Revisiting the relevance of traditional genres: a network analysis of fiction readers' preferences
• Authors: Taom Sakal, Stephen Proulx
• Abstract summary: We investigate how well traditional fiction genres like Fantasy, Thriller, and Literature represent readers' preferences. Using user data from Goodreads we construct a book network where two books are strongly linked if the same people tend to read or enjoy them both.
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• Abstract: We investigate how well traditional fiction genres like Fantasy, Thriller, and Literature represent readers' preferences. Using user data from Goodreads we construct a book network where two books are strongly linked if the same people tend to read or enjoy them both. We then partition this network into communities of similar books and assign each a list of subjects from The Open Library to serve as a proxy for traditional genres. Our analysis reveals that the network communities correspond to existing combinations of traditional genres, but that the exact communities differ depending on whether we consider books that people read or books that people enjoy. In addition, we apply principal component analysis to the data and find that the variance in the book communities is best explained by two factors: the maturity/childishness and realism/fantastical nature of the books. We propose using this maturity-realism plane as a coarse classification tool for stories.

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