Countries I Have Visited Through Books

I want to improve the geographical diversity of the books I read.

Goodreads doesn't show me where my book list authors are from, so I exported my data and wrote a bit of Python code to map the books to countries.

This is not a plug-and-play solution but a starter for people who want to do the same.

Prerequisites

python -m venv .venv
source ./.venv/bin/activate  # On Windows use `venv\Scripts\activate`
pip install -r requirements.txt

Export your Goodreads data as CSV and save it in the data/sources folder.
Work in the create_datasets.ipynb Jupyter notebook to get the countries of the authors of the books you read.
Manually adjust the /data/sources/author_country_corrections.csv file to your needs.
run the Jupyter notebook country_distribution.ipynb to get the distribution of the countries of the authors of the books you read.
run the Jupyter notebook gender_distribution.ipynb if you want to diversify beyond the nation state borders :)