{"id":358,"date":"2014-01-04T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2014-01-04T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T20:00:16","slug":"books-i-read-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Books I read–2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These are not all the books I read, but I did read several on the shelf. And most of them in the past.<\/p><\/div>\n

I was just going to write up a little thing about setting myself a goal to read so many books in the year (52), and how I managed that and then some(74), but then I saw several people posting about reading goals where they tried to read just as many female authors as male authors.<\/p>\n

When this discussion starts, I\u2019ve always said that I don\u2019t pay attention to the gender of the author, and I decided to go through the books I read to determine if that was true, or if I were deluding myself.<\/p>\n

What the numbers tell me is that, on a book by book basis, I read twice as many books written by women as written by men. Then I looked closer at the numbers and realized that, because the majority of the books were in series, I needed to see if the numbers when I looked at just the authors. It did, to an extent. I still read more books by women than by men, though not by as large a margin.<\/p>\n

Other interesting bits of data\u2014The majority of the books I read were urban fantasy, with the next largest number being sci-fi. I read only a small number of epic\/traditional fantasy.\u00a0 All the short stories, novellas, and novelettes that I read were for the Hugo awards, and almost all the graphic novels were as well. The longest audiobook was the Bible at about 91 hours. I think it took me around 4 months to get through.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what the shortest piece was. Seanan McGuire\/Mira Grant was the author I read the most.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a breakdown of all the different numbers:<\/p>\n

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Total\u201474<\/p>\n

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Types<\/span><\/p>\n

55 Novels<\/p>\n

8 Graphic novels<\/p>\n

2 Religious texts<\/p>\n

2 Novellas<\/p>\n

4 Novelettes<\/p>\n

3 Short stories<\/p>\n

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Media<\/span><\/p>\n

36 Audiobooks<\/p>\n

35 Electronic books<\/p>\n

3 Paper books<\/p>\n

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Gender<\/span><\/p>\n

21 male authors<\/p>\n

43 female<\/p>\n

8 collaborations<\/p>\n

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Gender, counting multiple books by a single author<\/span><\/p>\n

17 male authors<\/p>\n

22 female<\/p>\n

4 collaborations<\/p>\n

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Genre and sub-genre<\/span><\/p>\n

24 urban fantasy<\/p>\n

16 sci-fi<\/p>\n

11 paranormal romance\/urban fantasy<\/p>\n

4 traditional\/epic fantasy<\/p>\n

3 historical fantasy<\/p>\n

2 military urban fantasy<\/p>\n

1 paranormal romance<\/p>\n

1 horror<\/p>\n

1 pulp<\/p>\n

1 Neil Gaiman (He really is kinda his own genre.)<\/p>\n

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The breakdowns won\u2019t come out to 74\u2014I didn\u2019t count the Bible or the Book of Enoch for any of them aside from total and types, and I didn\u2019t include the graphic novels in genre\/subgenre.<\/p>\n

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With these numbers in mind, I\u2019ve decided to set a goal of reading 65 novels this coming year.\u00a0 I expect that number to be higher once I factor all the various shorts I\u2019ll be reading for the Hugo awards, and if I manage to get through some of the anthologies I\u2019ve yet to read. Perhaps with those included, I might manage to read 100 stories this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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