Year in review: 2018

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I managed to read a decent number of books in the last year, although my reading fell off quite markedly in the final few months, as my health issues got worse and worse. I haven’t read anything in at least a month now, probably longer. Too much pain and exhaustion.

There were a lot of excellent books on my list for this year. The ones that really stood out for me were, in no particular order:

Patrisse Khan-Cullors, When They Call You a Terrorist
Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives
N. K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky
Nnedi Okorafor, Binti - Home
Martha Wells, The Murderbot Diaries (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy)
Maya Angelou, I Know why the Caged Bird Sings
Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts
Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

And now for the statistics.

In 2018, I read 227 books or novellas - 181 fiction and 46 non-fiction; 9 of these were re-reads.

A total of 11 of these were anthologies or edited non-fiction collections, and so have been excluded from the demographic analysis of authorship, although I will note that among these works, 9 were edited or co-edited by women, and 5 were edited or co-edited by people of colour.

By gender:
Works written by women: 66 percent
Works written by men: 31 percent
Works written by non-binary people: three percent

By author's nationality:
American: 78 percent
British: 13 percent
Canadian: 12 percent
Other: 11 percent

"Other" nationalities included: Malaysian, German, Nigerian, Singaporean, Icelandic, Swedish, Finnish and Irish. .

Works by writers of colour: 31 percent