Mayakitten's Cosy Nook

My Goodreads challenge for 2015 was to read 70 'books'. I made it, but only by putting in a concerted effort in the last week of the year (I read about 8 books and comics in a 5 day period). I started the year very slowly and spent most of the year trying to play catch up.

As usual, I've done a gender breakdown based on writers or editors.

Written/Edited by women: 41
Written/Edited by men: 24
Edited by multiple genders: 5

A few more men this year, but still overwhelmingly female. Now for the other stats.

4 Magazines
24 Comics (a combination of trades and single volumes)
1 Audio Dramatisation of a Novel (it was on goodreads, it totally counts)
3 Anthologies (fiction)
1 Individual Author Collection
6 works of Non Fiction (2 were collections)
60 works of Fiction
4 work of both Fiction & Non Fiction
4 Re-reads
66 Previously Unread

This year I have left out the category of short fiction, although there are a couple of works which are considered so, but given I almost entirely avoided the Hugo Short Fiction categories this year, I didn't think it was worth a stat. They're included in the fiction count.

So, a lot more comics in 2015 and a lot less re-reading..

Since I barely made it in 2015, I've kept my target the same at 70 for 2016, though I've already had a much better start. The true challenge this year will be to try and read some work by writers of colour. I have the gender thing down pat, but I'm pretty sure the only work from people of colour I've read is as part of Uncanny Magazine. Ms Marvel is a character of colour written by a Muslim woman, but I'm not sure if G. Willow Wilson identifies as a person of colour. I don't want to assume. I have at least 1 book by an Indigenous Australian buried in my to read shelf, so I had best start there.

I'll report back in 12 months. ;)