Three Years of Reading 2018 to 2021
I decided to look at where I've been so I could plan where to go
2018 - 53 books written by 30 Authors; 21 American and only 5 non-Native English speakers (16.6%); only 6 out of 30 were females (20%). So 70 % American Authors and 80% of the Authors were male
2019 - I read 106 books written by 57 different Authors. 32 Authors (56%) were Americans; 13 (22.8%) were British while 18 (31.6%) were female. A whopping 91.23% were native English speakers.
2020 - 100 books written by 52 different Authors. 16 were female (30.7%) and 31 were American (59.6%); 12 were British (23 %) and 5 were non-native Speakers (Ireland x2, Iceland, Russia, Poland) for 9.6%
So far in 2021 I have read 29 books written by 22 different Authors. 9 of the 22 have been female (40.9%) and 4 have been non-Native (maybe 5 technically since Ayn Rand was born in Russia) (18.2%); 13 have been American (59%) or 14 if you include Ayn Rand.
235 books from January 2018 until today. Many of course were written by the same authors so there is overlap in the Authors. I looked year to year and not cumulatively. The number of authors won't equal 152 but something less.
So an Author recap:
Male authors range from 59.1% to 80%
Female authors range from 20% to 40.9%
American authors range from 56% to 70%
Native English Speakers range from 91.23% to 81.8%
Non-Native English authors range from 8.77 % to 18.2%
My goal for 2021 is to increase the non-native English authors to at least 25%. The male /female ratio will be what it is since my focus is completing books from the Best Book lists while supplementing with non-Native English authors.
Have you ever considered the background of the authors you are reading?
