bloodygranuaile

Can be found here: http://agentclaudia.livejournal.com/290325.html

[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.

[Poll #1878893]

It's Magical Happy Fantastic Funfunfun Poll Time!

So this year, I completed the fifty book challenge, although I failed it as a Hundred Book Challenge, largely due to my insistence upon occasionally reading big grown-up books. (The only year I ever completed the Hundred Book Challenge was the year I had a regress-into-childhood meltdown the first half of the year and my friends staged a "Make Clare Discover Graphic Novels Right Now" movement the second half.)

This, of course, does NOT include all the books, ebooks, and textbooks that I read and/or edited for any of my jobs this year, because I don't much keep track of those. If I did, I'd probably have at least five hundred volumes, even without counting repeated readings (like the eighty-odd times I've at least skimmed the entire text of John Macionis' Society: The Basics. Oh mah gawd).

Anyway, please mark any of the following books which you have ever read! I think you can log in to poll using Facebook/Twitter/etc., for my non-LJ-using readers (by which I mean: Hi, Mom!). Let me know if you can't and I will try to fix it.

Rereads are marked with an asterisk.

[Poll #1807515]

By the Numbers (does not include the unfinished one):
63 books: 44 fiction, 19 nonfiction
40 authors: 21 female, 19 male
Rereads: 10

You know what would be awesome? If you left me recommendations for next year! Because my TBR pile isn't, um, big enough. *eyes enormous TBR pile and lengthy Amazon wishlist* Anyway.

[Poll #1300983]