Ratings from open sources
Open Library, Google Books, Hardcover and Wikidata — data we can point the reader back to.
Case 02 live openbookrank.com
A book ranking you can check.
Instead of an editorial list — a number and a method in the open. Ratings from open sources mapped onto one scale, counted so that popularity does not lose to coincidence.
- rankings
- series and order
- 32 categories
- 6 languages
- open data
Open openbookrank.com The build
01 The task
Ratings are everywhere.
A shared scale is not.
The same book scores 4.3 on one site, 8.7 on another and 82% on a third. None of them says how many ratings sit behind the result.
On top of that, the classic ranking failure: a title with thirty enthusiastic ratings lands above a novel half a million people have read.
02 The build
One scale,
a method in the open.
Four open sources, a shared scale, and the full calculation described on a page you can reach from the menu.
A ranking that resists flukes
A title with forty ratings does not outrank a classic with four thousand.
Series and reading order
243 series ranked and volume order for over a thousand — publication order versus in-world chronology.
Six languages, 32 categories
Every category gets its own list and its own URL. Every language gets its own version.
03 Numbers
The scale of it.
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books ranked
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ratings behind the rankings
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pages on the site
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languages running in production
As of 10 September 2026, taken straight from the live site.
Check the ranking and the method.
The most interesting page is not the number one spot but the methodology — that is where you find out whether the ranking can be trusted.
Open openbookrank.com