Summing up my reading in 2007

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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.