Unshelved books of favorite authors

[Ednole]

A possible script could output all books for your favorite authors (those rated 4 stars or more) that you have not added to your library. This could be refined to only output recent books (those that have been recently published, or are going to be published in the future). A publication date column would be especially useful so you easily see when you can read the book.

[andre-st]

Which table format would be clearer for you to identify interesting new books as quickly as possible?

Variant 1:

===========================================================================
AUTHORS  |  BOOKS & PUBDATE
===========================================================================
author1  |  [COVER] [COVER] [COVER] [COVER] [COVER] [COVER] [COVER] [COVER]
         |  [title] [title] [title] [title] [title] [title] [title] [title]
         |  2020    2005    2000    1999    1990    1990    1989    1989
         |
         |  [COVER] [COVER] [COVER]
         |  [title] [title] [title]
         |  1989    1980    1979
---------+-----------------------------------------------------------------
author2  |  [COVER] [COVER] [COVER] [COVER]
         |  [title] [title] [title] [title]
         |  1990    1980    1970    1969
---------+-----------------------------------------------------------------

Variant 2:

============================================================================
COVER     |  TITLE       |  AUTHOR     |  PUBDATE  |  ...
============================================================================
[COVER]   |  title1      |  author1    |  2020     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title2      |  author1    |  2005     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title3      |  author1    |  2000     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title4      |  author1    |  1999     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title5      |  author1    |  1990     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title6      |  author1    |  1990     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title7      |  author1    |  1989     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title8      |  author1    |  1989     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title9      |  author1    |  1989     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title10     |  author1    |  1980     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title11     |  author1    |  1979     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title12     |  author2    |  1990     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title13     |  author2    |  1980     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title14     |  author2    |  1970     |  ...
[COVER]   |  title15     |  author2    |  1969     |  ...

[Ednole]

Variant 2 would be best, because it would be easier to sort by AUTHOR + PUBDATE. (I'm not so likely to search for specific authors).