diverse_reading

In progress development of an application to suggest books by international and diverse authors with similar themes to classic reading list books.

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Scraping book lists from Goodreads:

scrape_goodreads_lists.sh is a bash script that calls a package to download book data from Goodreads based on Listopia lists (https://github.com/havanagrawal/GoodreadsScraper.git). The following lists are used:

minority and international lists:

12716.Speculative_Fiction_by_Authors_of_Color

116887.2018_Books_by_Authors_of_Color_Native_Authors

113712.Book_Riot_s_100_Must_Read_Classics_by_People_of_Color

96119._ReadPOC_List_of_Books_by_Authors_of_Color

83339.Women_s_Fiction_by_Strong_Women

22135.Around_the_World_One_Book_from_Each_Country

4283.Around_the_World_in_100_Books

5534.Non_American_books_that_every_American_should_read

90194.Women_in_Translation

71912.Africa_s_100_Best_Books_of_the_20th_Century

73176.African_Writers_Series

95678.Multicultural_Female_Authors

31853.Iranian_Fiction

These are saved in files with names diverse_N_01_25.json where N = 0:12, respectively

young adult minority and international:

104750.Young_Adult_books_with_chronically_ill_physically_or_mentally_disabled_protagonists

84609.South_Asians_in_Contemporary_YA

100873.Anticipated_Diverse_2016_2017_YA_Books

94201.MG_YA_Speculative_Fiction_by_Authors_of_Color

97984.South_Africa_in_YA_Middle_Grade_Fiction

92685.International_YA_Books

104480.Internationally_Minded_YA_Books

These are saved in files with names diverse_ya_N_01_25.json where N = 0:6

likely assigned books lists:

3751.A_Journey_Through_Literary_America

1126.John_Steinbeck

9370.Best_of_Hemingway_

5465.Best_of_Mark_Twain

21652.Best_of_William_Faulkner

74999.Historical_Novels_of_Early_America

36785.WWII_Historic_Fiction

68.Best_European_Literature

10785.The_French_Revolution

3990.Greatest_Eastern_European_Classics

1339.Best_British_and_Irish_Literature

1077.Modern_British_Novels

2457.Best_Books_Of_The_Decade_1880s

4509.Oh_Canada_

2458.Best_Books_Of_The_Decade_1860s

5464.Best_of_Charles_Dickens

These are saved in files with names western_N_01_25.json where N = 0:15

likely assigned young adult:

18678.Best_UKYA_Books

7170.Young_Adult_fiction_by_UK_authors

These are saved in files with names western_ya_N_01_25.json where N = 0:1

Data processing

process_data.ipynb contains a first look at the data from one of the lists. The descriptions have a problem where some lines are duplicated. I'm not sure if it makes sense to try to chop these off or just use unique words, or...?

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diverse_reading

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