Book Networks

The network graphs below show each book's similarity to other book, by genre. Books are deemed "similar" based on Goodread's "Similar Books" page for a book. For example, you can see that Plato's The Republic is similar to other books like The Communist Manifesto, Confessions and Beyond Good and Evil. While I don't really agree with these relations, it makes sense when you understand that these similarity measures are based on Goodreads user behavior: users who read Plato's The Republic also read the books listed above. This may not be the best way to measure similarity, but it provides for access to a very wide and broad book network that we otherwise wouldn't have access to.

The Louvain method is used for community detection and node coloring. Node and label sizing are based on a node's degree (number of "similar" books). Cutoffs for inclusion based on Goodreads counts were made in order to reduce the node/edge counts. The node sorting will automatically begin and stop after about thirty seconds. You can click the "Play" button to continue the animation.

source: Goodreads "Similar Books"