{"id":6,"date":"2015-01-06T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/?p=6"},"modified":"2015-01-17T22:07:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T22:07:50","slug":"books-i-read-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/2015\/01\/06\/books-i-read-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I Read in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previous Years:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cultoflincoln.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/2010-in-books-bfb-indicates-book-that.html\">2010<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cultoflincoln.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/2011-in-books-bfb-indicates-book-that.html\">2011<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cultoflincoln.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/2012-in-books-january-charitable.html\">2012<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cultoflincoln.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/books-i-read-in-2013.html\">2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I created the list of books I read in 2013, I was horrified at the low number of books I read that featured female protagonists. &nbsp;My goals for 2014 were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more books, period.<\/li>\n<li>Read more books by and starring women and people of color<\/li>\n<li>Read more books written before my birth<\/li>\n<li>Continue to read a diverse selection of nonfiction subjects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>To that end, I succeeded where women and nonfiction were concerned, but I continue to fall hideously short where authors and protagonists of color are concerned. &nbsp;Reversing that needs to be a primary goal of 2015.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The books I read were:<\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Urban Fantasy:<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<div><i>Ashes of Honor<\/i>, Seanan McGuire<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Chimes at Midnight<\/i>, Seanan McGuire<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Indexing<\/i>, Seanan McGuire<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Skin Game<\/i>, Jim Butcher<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Sparrow Hill Road<\/i>, Seanan McGuire<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>The Winter Long<\/i>, Seanan McGuire<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Legion: Skin Deep<\/i>, Brandon Sanderson<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Fantasy:<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/div>\n<div><i>Glamour in Glass<\/i>, Mary Robinette Kowal<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Without a Summer<\/i>, Mary Robinette Kowal<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Words of Radiance<\/i>, Brandon Sanderson<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Raising Steam<\/i>, Terry Pratchett<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>The Slow Regard of Silent Things<\/i>, Patrick Rothfuss<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Valour and Vanity<\/i>, Mary Robinette Kowal<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Monstrous Regiment<\/i>, Terry Pratchett<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Cinder Spires #1: The Aeronaut\u2019s Windlass<\/i>, Jim Butcher<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>The Stupidest Angel<\/i>, Christopher Moore<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Sci-Fi:<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/div>\n<div><i>Parasite<\/i>, Mira Grant<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Lock In<\/i>, John Scalzi<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>The Gone-Away World<\/i>, Nick Harkaway<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Annihilation<\/i>, Jeff VanderMeer<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Superheroes:<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/div>\n<div><i>Ms. Marvel, vol 1: No Normal<\/i>, G. Willow Wilson<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Captain Marvel, vol 1: Higher Further Faster<\/i>, Kelly Sue DeConnick<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Mystery:<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/div>\n<div><i>The Silkworm<\/i>, Robert Galbraith<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Non-Fiction:<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(Anthologies)<\/div>\n<div><i>If This Isn\u2019t Nice, What Is?,<\/i> Kurt Vonnegut<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(Memoir\/Humor)<\/div>\n<div><i>Let\u2019s Pretend This Never Happened<\/i>, Jenny Lawson<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Yes Please<\/i>, Amy Poehler<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(Filmmaking &amp; Writing)<\/div>\n<div><i>Writing the TV Drama Series<\/i>, Pamela Douglas<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>Difficult Men<\/i>, Brett Martin<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(Science)<\/div>\n<div><i>The Pluto Files<\/i>, Neil DeGrasse Tyson<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><i>The Violinist\u2019s Thumb<\/i>, Sam 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Like half of that was from rereading Sandman.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Format:<\/b> 24 audiobooks,&nbsp;1 print book (<i>Writing the TV Drama Series<\/i>), 1 ebook (<i>Indexing<\/i>), 2 graphic novels (<i>Ms. Marvel<\/i> and <i>Captain Marvel<\/i>), 2 beta texts (<i>The Slow Regard of Silent Things <\/i>and <i>The Aeronaut&#8217;s Windlass<\/i>).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Total Authors:<\/b> 21<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Gender of Author:<\/b> Parity! 15 by women and 15 by men! Yes, I read the first volume of <i>Captain Marvel<\/i> on New Year&#8217;s Eve to bring it into balance. And yes, I&#8217;m counting J.K. Rowling&#8217;s male pseudonym as a woman, because I wouldn&#8217;t have read the book if I hadn&#8217;t known she&#8217;d written it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Race of Author: <\/b>A whopping 29 books by white authors, with Neil DeGrasse Tyson as my lone author of color. &nbsp;What the HELL, Priscilla. No, having white Muslim woman G. Willow Wilson among those 29 does not make this figure any less shameful.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Gender of Protagonists:<\/b> 5 starring men, 14 starring women, and 4 with multiple protagonists of mixed gender (or in the case of <i>Lock In<\/i>, a protagonist of indeterminate gender&#8211;though I listened to the Amber Benson audio performance, which biased me towards female). HELL TO THE YES. &nbsp;This nicely compensates for last year&#8217;s galling revelation that I read almost nothing with a female protagonist!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Race of Protagonists: <\/b>Again a poor showing with 20 books with white protagonists, 2 with protagonists of color (<i>Lock In<\/i> and <i>Ms. Marvel<\/i>), with maybe-kinda <i>The Stupidest Angel<\/i> slipping in with Mixed Protagonists, as one of the viewpoint characters is Latina.<\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Publication Date:<\/b> Almost half (14) were published in 2014 (or 2015 for&nbsp;<i>The Aeronaut&#8217;s Windlass<\/i>), and the same number (14) came out within the last ten years. &nbsp;Only two came out pre-2005: <i>Monstrous Regiment<\/i> (2003) and <i>The Stupidest Angel<\/i> (2004).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And man, I&#8217;m just realizing I left Jim Butcher&#8217;s &#8220;Ghoul, Goblin&#8221; and &#8220;War Cry&#8221; off this list. &nbsp;Whoops. &nbsp;Comics and betaing make everything complicated.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><u>Reflections<\/u><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m frankly gobsmacked that despite my massive efforts to read as many female authors as possible, I ended the year at parity. Why am I not gravitating more toward the amazing women writing in fantasy? &nbsp;I&#8217;m reminded of those studies where grade school teachers thought they were giving boys and girls equal speaking time, when they were really giving girls 1\/6 of the speaking time, and when speaking time was actually equal, the boys complained the girls were doing all the talking. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What do I need to do to make parity feel natural and effortless? &nbsp;I need to look through recs of female authors and discover some new favorites, so they&#8217;ll take up more space on my &#8220;unquestioned auto-buy&#8221; list. &nbsp;The auto-buys are where the guys are getting their edge. &nbsp;They&#8217;re also dominating my nonfiction choices.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I also need to read more authors of color. Roxane Gay&#8217;s <i>Bad Feminist<\/i> was high on my To Read list, but I didn&#8217;t get to it this year. &nbsp;I utterly adore N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor&#8211;I really need to catch up on their recent work. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve been meaning to pick up a Murakami book for years. &nbsp;There are a couple Octavia Butler books I&#8217;m curious about, despite my wildly differing opinions on two of her books (adored <i>Kindred<\/i> and was thoroughly skeeved out by&nbsp;<i>Fledgling<\/i>). &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Other authors of color for me to keep in mind: Salman Rushdie, Isabel Allende (really enjoyed her&nbsp;<i>Zorro<\/i>), Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sherman Alexie, Samuel R. Delany, Malala Yousafzai, Nalo Hopkinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Malinda Lo, and Charles Chestnutt. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Who am I missing?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So yes! &nbsp;Goals for 2015 are only slightly modified from previous years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more books, period. &nbsp;My 2014 Goodreads goal was 26, and my 2015 goal is 30.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Read more books by and starring women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and other marginalized groups<\/li>\n<li>Read more books written before my birth<\/li>\n<li>Continue to read a diverse selection of nonfiction subjects, but with more books by women<\/li>\n<li>Read more screenplays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous Years:2010201120122013 When I created the list of books I read in 2013, I was horrified at the low number of books I read that featured female protagonists. &nbsp;My goals for 2014 were: Read more books, period. 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