Summing up my reading in 2007

[bibliogramma]

I've already posted my "best reads of 2007" list, and now that I've finally posted my last reviews from the books read that year, it's time to sum up.

I have read 235 books in 2007, 27 non-fiction and 208 fiction. Of these, 28 were re-reads. Among the fiction writers, 37 authors were new to me. I was really into reading series this year - 41 authors are represented by more than one book on my list of books read in 2007.

Among these 235, 11 percent were written by men, 11 percent were collections or collaborations with authors of both genders (or books written by persons whose gender identification is neither male nor female), with the balance - 78 percent - of female authorship.

In terms of nationality, 60 percent were written by American authors, 11 percent by authors from the British Isles, 14 percent by Canadian authors and a woeful 6 percent by authors from other countries. Nine percent were collections or collaborations involving authors of more than one nationality.

Some interesting changes from last year - I read a great deal more, most of it fiction, and more of it by women and Americans than the year before. I still suck at reading books from cultures not my own (if we take the whole spectrum of English writing to represent one big uber-culture. I appear to be rather strongly biased in terms of the gender of the authors I prefer, but this doesn't bother me so much because women's voices have traditionally been under-represented in English-language culture, it only seems fair.

On to 2008.

Comments

[calico-reaction.livejournal.com]

Holy CRAP that's a lot of books!

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

Well, it should be noted that because of my various disabilities, I really don't have a lot of options in how I amuse myself when I'm not working. One can only surf the Internet for so long, and I'm finding that there are fewer and fewer movies I want to rent, and I'm no longer all that willing to watch TV that I'm not really all that interested in - why watch crap when you could be reading a good book?

I really have to get at writing up what I've been reading - I've been in kind of a slump, plus I've been working a lot (the January to March period is usually one of the heaviest for me in term of workload) - but I haven't stopped reading, which means I've got 45 books read so far this year to comment on.

Although a lot of them have been series, which I'll likely lump all together in one post, which saves some time and effort.

[calico-reaction.livejournal.com]

That makes sense, but still...HOLY CRAP! :)

Can't wait to see those reviews!