2013 Book Survey!
Jan. 1st, 2014 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodygranuaile[Poll #1950497]
You all know the drill.
2013 may have sucked in a lot of ways, but I read some really great books! Readercon in particular resulted in discovering a wealth of awesome books by awesome authors, and I've barely made a dent in my Readercon TBR list so far.
Anyway. SOME STATS:
60 books read total!
All in all, I read 46 books by 22 female authors, and 14 books by 12 male authors. Sorry dudes!
22 of the authors I read were new discoveries for this year.
Only 18 books this year were rereads, of which 17 were by Tamora Pierce.
Only three books were nonfiction. Whoops!
As far as I can tell I only read four authors of color this year. What the fuck, self? All four were women.
I read at least one book each of 23 different serieses this year. I am counting In Search of Lost Time as a series because what the fuck is a seven-volume novel anyway.
The longest book I read was Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. The shortest books I read was Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton, which is so short I read the whole thing before I'd even realized that was what I was doing.
Next year, I aim to read more nonfiction, more books by authors of color, and a nonzero number of books by men of color.
You all know the drill.
2013 may have sucked in a lot of ways, but I read some really great books! Readercon in particular resulted in discovering a wealth of awesome books by awesome authors, and I've barely made a dent in my Readercon TBR list so far.
Anyway. SOME STATS:
60 books read total!
All in all, I read 46 books by 22 female authors, and 14 books by 12 male authors. Sorry dudes!
22 of the authors I read were new discoveries for this year.
Only 18 books this year were rereads, of which 17 were by Tamora Pierce.
Only three books were nonfiction. Whoops!
As far as I can tell I only read four authors of color this year. What the fuck, self? All four were women.
I read at least one book each of 23 different serieses this year. I am counting In Search of Lost Time as a series because what the fuck is a seven-volume novel anyway.
The longest book I read was Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. The shortest books I read was Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton, which is so short I read the whole thing before I'd even realized that was what I was doing.
Next year, I aim to read more nonfiction, more books by authors of color, and a nonzero number of books by men of color.