2015 Reading Summary

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And, somewhat belated, here is my 2015 year-end summary. This is the first year that my reading selections were influenced by the Hugo Awards, and the Sadly Rabid Puppies in particular, in that I read a number of works by people I would not ordinarily read, simply because they were nominated for the 2015 Hugos. The practical reflection of that is that i read more work from Americans, white people and men than I otherwise might have.

My favourite books of this year were:

Katha Pollitt, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows
Ann Leckie, The Imperial Radch Trilogy
Chesya Burke, Let's Play White
N. K. Jemisin, Fifth Season
Nnedi Okorafor, The Book of Phoenix
Zen Cho, Sorcerer to the Crown
Naomi Novik, Uprooted
Jo Walton, The Just City
Jo Walton, The Philosopher Kings
Jo Walton, My Real Children
Samuel Delany, The Motion of Light in Water
Usman Malik, The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings



On to the statistics:

In 2015, I read 164 books or novellas - 141 fiction and 23 non-fiction; 37 of these were re-reads (I had a miserable year health-wise and needed much comfort reading). A total of 15 of these were anthologies or edited non-fiction works, and so have been excluded from the demographic analysis of authorship.

By gender:
Works written by women: 76.5 percent
Works written by men: 23.5 percent

By author's nationality:
American: 73.2 percent
British: 10.7 percent
Canadian: 8.1 percent
Other: 8.1 percent

"Other" nationalities included: Iranian, Palestinian, German, French, Malaysian, Chinese, Peruvian, Nigerian, Pakistani, Icelander, Barbadian.

Works by writers of colour: 21.5 percent