2010: Non-Fiction

I did not read much non-fiction in 2010.What I did read, I found very interesting.


Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest

Shiva is an environmental activist and eco-feminist who writes most powerfully on the ways in which the global agribusiness project is negatively affecting the land, the people and the culture


Daniel Radosh, Rapture Ready

Fascinating look at the "rapture" culture among various fundamentalist Christian groups in the U.S.


Barbara Ehrenreich, This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation

Ehrenreich as always delivers provocative insights into the American social, political and economic zeitgeist.

2010: Summary

In 2010, I read 63 books, 60 fiction and 3 non-fiction; 22 of these were re-reads (%). A total of five of these were anthologies, and so have been excluded from the demographic analysis of authorship.

By gender:
Books written by women: 46.7%
Books written by men: 48.3%
One book was co-written by a man and a woman

By nationality:
American: 78.3%
British: 6.6%
Canadian: 8.3%
Other: 1.6%

Book by writers of colour: 6.6%

Not a particularly characteristic year for me in terms of , probably because such a large proportion of this year's reading consisted of re-reads of science fiction by White American men.


Beat reads of 2010:

Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Zahrah the Windseeker
Jo Walton, Half a Crown
Helen S. Wright, A Matter of Oaths
Sarah Zettel, Fools’ War
John Scalzi, Old Man’s War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony
Molly Hite, Class Porn
Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest