- Although still very low for me compared to previous years, the number of female authors read in this 100 comprise 14% of the total
- 17% of the books read were in Spanish and an additional 4% were in Italian
- 31% were re-reads
- 8% were books read in English translation from the original German, Hebrew, Italian, and Portuguese
- 12% have a ©2009 notice
- 1% is poetry from the 20th century and is by a Catholic priest
- 2% of the books were written by the current Pope
- 9% were anthologies or short story collections
- 16% were graphic novels or illustrated stories
- 0% are by authors whose debut work was released in 2009
- The 200th book was China Miéville's The City & The City, which was a surprisingly disappointing read for me, since I've enjoyed his other fiction much more than I enjoyed reading this novel.
And those are the facts and figures for now. Might do the same whenever I reach 300 books read for this year.
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I didn't much like the Miéville either. The prose was fairly lifeless, and the characterization absent.
I am at 129 books for 09, though I do not count re-reads unless there is something very different about them (different language vs first read, or big time reassessment of the book)
I re-read quite a few books several times, most recently Nights of Villjamur (originally read twice when I got my pdf rv copy in March, and now re-read on getting the hc)
About 70+ are 2009 releases including quite a few debuts
Of the 122 authored books (leaving aside anthologies)the split is 82-40 male/female, assuming of course that KJ Parker is of gender F (read 7 novels by her so far in 09) and knowing that despite the name, Morgan Howell is of gender M (read 4)
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