Data on 1M+ reviews from 13K+ books, collected in late 2017 from users' public shelves on goodreads.com. The "works" table contains metadata on each book, including details like the author, publication date, genres, and ratings. The "reviews" table contains a subset of English text reviews for the books in the "works" table, with spoilers flagged as part of the raw text.

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• What are the most popular books and authors? What about the most controversial?

• Which genres have the highest reader engagement? What are their most popular books?

• Who are the highest-rated authors? How have their works trended by publication year?

• Do longer reviews get more "helpful" votes? What about reviews with extreme ratings (1 or 5 stars)?