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Number-crunching: books
Jan. 1st, 2012 12:24 pm1. NPR's top 100 SF/Fantasy books. Bold if you've read, italicise ones you fully intend to read, underline if it's a book/series you've read part but not all of.
[Bold & italics indicates things I've read since first doing this meme.]
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Of the authors mentioned in that meme, fourteen (23%) are women and sixty (77%) are men (none, to my knowledge, are non-binary). Of the women, one (7%) gets multiple mentions; 13 (21%) of men are mentioned more than once. Four (29%) of women get mentioned for series; twenty-one (35%) of men get mentioned for series. Also, everyone on that list is white, as far as I can tell. (Spreadsheet available on request.)
2. My books
By way of comparison, I tracked the books I read this year. I read somewhere in the region of 90-100 books, by 24 authors. 9 (38%) of the authors are male. One (4%) of the authors is trans.[1] One (4%) of the authors is non-white. Most of the books were series written by women.
My goal for the year was to actually read some books written by women, and I'm really glad of that: I read a bunch of stuff I really enjoyed but might not have got around to if I hadn't been ~being political~. This year: attempt to read (a) ANYTHING AT ALL IN GERMAN, and (b) books by people who aren't white.
[1] This would have been 2/25 - 8% - but circumstances intervened and I couldn't face it
[Bold & italics indicates things I've read since first doing this meme.]
( Read more... )
Of the authors mentioned in that meme, fourteen (23%) are women and sixty (77%) are men (none, to my knowledge, are non-binary). Of the women, one (7%) gets multiple mentions; 13 (21%) of men are mentioned more than once. Four (29%) of women get mentioned for series; twenty-one (35%) of men get mentioned for series. Also, everyone on that list is white, as far as I can tell. (Spreadsheet available on request.)
2. My books
By way of comparison, I tracked the books I read this year. I read somewhere in the region of 90-100 books, by 24 authors. 9 (38%) of the authors are male. One (4%) of the authors is trans.[1] One (4%) of the authors is non-white. Most of the books were series written by women.
My goal for the year was to actually read some books written by women, and I'm really glad of that: I read a bunch of stuff I really enjoyed but might not have got around to if I hadn't been ~being political~. This year: attempt to read (a) ANYTHING AT ALL IN GERMAN, and (b) books by people who aren't white.
[1] This would have been 2/25 - 8% - but circumstances intervened and I couldn't face it