Book lending at Paris's Famous Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore

Okay, does this need to be visualized? Maybe not, but I'd love suggestions on how this COULD be interesting, because it's an incredible dataset.

I would have liked to include more book titles in this, but found I couldn't fit them in with 12-pt font. A possible solution to this would be limiting the books shown in the viz.

I also found the color-logic for a sunburst kind of confusing. I ended up just going with gradients for the two main categories (male and female authors), rather than individual colors for each author block, but maybe that would have been better? Open to suggestions.

Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

among most popular female and male authors

Most popular books borrowed from Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore

while serving as a lending library, 1919-1941

Joyce’s books were

the most popular at the store.

In 1922, Joyce’s Ulysses was published

under the Shakespeare and Co. imprint,

putting the bookstore on the map.

James

Joyce

Woolf’s popularity rivaled Joyce.

Of her books, Jacob’s Room and

To the Lighthouse

were borrowed the most.

Virginia

Woolf

E.M. Forster

D.H. Lawrence

Katherine

Mansfield

Dorothy

Richardson

William

Faulkner

Ernest

Hemingway

Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

among most popular

female and male authors

Book lending at Paris's Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore