2011 books: end-of-year statistics
At the beginning of the year, several bloggers made pledges to read more sf/f books written by women. I took a somewhat opposite pledge: to read at least one book a month written (or co-written) by a man! Co-written books equal a 1/2 mark. Re-reads are included.
Female: 59-1/2
Male: 17
I would have to say that I just barely met the goal, and only by including the re-reads. I read 4.5x as many female-written stories as male-written ones. I about equally did-not-finish books by both genders, so that wouldn't have affected the results.
I didn't re-read as much as I'd thought:
New: 51.5 (.5 = short story)
Re-read: 25
but still a 1/3 of the total.
Only two male authors on the to-buy list for next year (previously posted on James Nicoll's blog):
Feb
Paul Kearney, Kings of Morning
Mar
C.J. Cherryh, Intruder
Apr
Mary Robinette Kowal, Glamour in Glass
Sharon Shinn, Shape of Desire (she read from it at WFC; I have some reservations)
May
Ysabeau Wilce, Flora's Fury
Jul
Wen Spencer, Elfhome
Aug
Carrie Vaughn, Kitty Steals the Show
Patricia Wrede, The Far West
Violette Malan, Shadowlands
Sep
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Dragon Ship
Nov
Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (date and title tentative, but the book is turned in)
Secondary list (ones that I have even more reservations about)
Mark del Franco, Undone Deeds
Gail Carriger, Timeless
Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground
Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead (yeah, yeah)
But I do have the rest of the Long Price Quartet to read!
edited 1/1/2012 to add the Wilce and Bujold books (and remove the flash insert--how did that get there?)
Female: 59-1/2
Male: 17
I would have to say that I just barely met the goal, and only by including the re-reads. I read 4.5x as many female-written stories as male-written ones. I about equally did-not-finish books by both genders, so that wouldn't have affected the results.
I didn't re-read as much as I'd thought:
New: 51.5 (.5 = short story)
Re-read: 25
but still a 1/3 of the total.
Only two male authors on the to-buy list for next year (previously posted on James Nicoll's blog):
Feb
Paul Kearney, Kings of Morning
Mar
C.J. Cherryh, Intruder
Apr
Mary Robinette Kowal, Glamour in Glass
Sharon Shinn, Shape of Desire (she read from it at WFC; I have some reservations)
May
Ysabeau Wilce, Flora's Fury
Jul
Wen Spencer, Elfhome
Aug
Carrie Vaughn, Kitty Steals the Show
Patricia Wrede, The Far West
Violette Malan, Shadowlands
Sep
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Dragon Ship
Nov
Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (date and title tentative, but the book is turned in)
Secondary list (ones that I have even more reservations about)
Mark del Franco, Undone Deeds
Gail Carriger, Timeless
Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground
Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead (yeah, yeah)
But I do have the rest of the Long Price Quartet to read!
edited 1/1/2012 to add the Wilce and Bujold books (and remove the flash insert--how did that get there?)