2013: summary

[bibliogramma]

Well, this is probably the latest i've been in finishing up the prior year's reading. i'll try to catch up faster this year.

In any event, hhere are my favourite reads of 2013, and the 2013 statistics.

Best Works I Read in 2013

Elizabeth Bear, In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns
Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons
N. K. Jemisin, The Broken Kingdoms
N. K. Jemisin, Kingdom of the Gods
Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Johanna Sinisalo, Birdbrain
Jo Baker, Longbourn
A. S. Byatt, Possession
Drew Hayden Taylor, Fearless Warriors
Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage



In 2013, I read 185 books or novellas 161 fiction and 14 non-fiction; 12 of these were re-reads. A total of eight of these were anthologies, and so have been excluded from the demographic analysis of authorship.

By gender:
Books written by women: 86.9%
Books written by men: 14.1%
One book was written by multiple authors, male and female.

By nationality:
American: 52.2%
British: 31.8%
Canadian: 10.2%
Other: 5.1%

Books by writers of colour: 12.9%