And wrapping up 2012....

So it's my traditional end of year wrap-up. For 2012. Written in June of 2013. Yeah, I'm late.

Best reads of the year:

Terry Bisson, Fire on the Mountain
Maureen McHugh, Nekropolis
Thomas King, Medicine River
Nicola Griffith, Ammonite
Jo Walton, Lifelode
Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon's Arms
Ken Macleod, The Intrusion 
Kameron Hurley, Brutal Women
Nnedi Okorafor, African Sunrise
N. K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
J. M. Frey, Tryptych

Special Mentions: 
Glenda Larke's Stormlord trilogy and the first volume of her Mirage  Maker's trilogy
Nicola Griffith's Aud Torvington novels


And the annual stats:

In 2012, I read 167 books, 156 fiction and 11 non-fiction; 13 of these were re-reads (8%). A total of four of these were anthologies, and so have been excluded from the demographic analysis of authorship.

By gender:
Books written by women: 83%
Books written by men: 17%
Two books were co-written by a man and a woman

By nationality:
American: 66%
British: 16%
Canadian: 16%
Other: 3%

Book by writers of colour: 18%

Goals:

Pretty much same as last year. The stats suggest that I have done a bit better in terms of reading more diversely (i.e., more books by writers who are not white Americans) last year, and I hope to continue the trend this year.

I didn't do all that well with clearing the to-be-read pile, but I'm working on that again, too.