Books read in 2015

[luzula]

Total number of books read: 90
Besides this, I also read fic and subscribe to various magazines.

Fiction: 80
Non-fiction: 10

Fiction for YA or children: 11 (not actually counting the four Moomin books--I feel that they are adult books as much as children's/YA books)
Fiction for adults: 69

Book authors by gender (judged by name, so I guess people could've been misgendered)
Female authors: 67
Male authors: 31
Unknown: 1

Yeah, I'm not surprised. I don't consciously try to read more women than men or anything, that's just how it ends up when I don't think about it.

By language read in:
English: 76
Swedish: 14

By original language:
English: 71
Swedish: 12
Norwegian: 2
Spanish: 2
French: 1
German: 1
Japanese: 1

By author's home country:
USA: 45
UK: 17
Sweden: 7
Finland: 4
Canada: 3.5
Norway: 2
South Africa: 1
Germany: 1
France: 1
Japan: 1
India: 1
Argentina: 1
Colombia: 1
Nigeria: 0.5

Oh, this was interesting--I've never sliced up my reading that way before. Hello, behold the dominance of the US of A. Why do I read so many American books? Why do I read so few books from my own country? I don't know. Maybe because many of my fannish friends are American? Is it because my genre of choice is SF/F, and there is less of it from my own country? I think that one of my goals for next year will be to read fewer American books. Also to read more Scandinavian books, maybe.

Genre (roughly; some were hard to categorize):
fantasy: 33
SF: 16
romance: 6
historical: 6
other: 13

Huh. I did not know I read twice as much fantasy as SF. Possibly the explanation is that this year I read several longer fantasy series.

Ten favorite new-to-me books/series (that is, not counting rereads, and in no order):
The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss
Hild by Nicola Griffiths
the Moomin books by Tove Janson
the Inda series by Sherwood Smith
the Elemental Logic series by Laurie J Marks
the Long Price quartet by Daniel Abraham
The Just City/The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Memoirs of Lady Trent series by Marie Brennan
Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson

Comments

[oneiriad]

It's easy to end up reading mostly US and English books. After all, they're the ones internet fandom mostly talks about, the ones that get nominated for yuletide and so forth.

Out of all the books you read last year, which one do you most think I should read?

[luzula]

Out of all the books you read last year, which one do you most think I should read?

Hmm. I'll go with Hild--it's a really interesting historical novel and I'd love to talk about it with you. Or have you read it already?

[oneiriad]

I have not read it, but it sounds interesting. Hmmm. Looks like I'll need to try to get the library to buy it. (Or just buy it myself - decisions, decisions).

[luzula]

I could lend it to you, except that we are in different cities. Or I can just bring it along to the next meet-up (there needs to be a Copenhagen meet-up soon...)

[oneiriad]

We absolutely need a Copenhagen meet-up soon. Just remember your passport or they won't take you back.