A poll for the gents on reading

[netmouse]

Please only participate in this poll if you self-identify as having a male gender.
I know it's hard to remember what-all you've read recently, but please try.

UPDATE: for anthologies, please count them as the gender of the majority of the authors.
FURTHER UPDATE: Please don't eliminate books from reporting in this poll based on their topic or genre, then comment afterward to tell me how the stats would be different if you hadn't done that. The poll is not intended to be aimed only at fiction, or SF - the question at the end is an add-on. The goal of the poll is to survey the genders of the authors of ANY BOOKS you read in the past 2 months.


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Comments

[delosd.livejournal.com]

The males squeezed out a bare majority in novels (which were all I counted) but interestingly enough, the three anthologies I read the last two months were all *edited* by women. I'm not sure I've seen enough anthologies lately in Fantasy/SF to spot a trend, but it seems that female anthology editors have become much more common.

Another interesting factoid is that the percentage seems to hold fairly steady. Sitting on my "waiting to be read" shelf are 32 books, 13 of which are by female authors, or 40%. (Of course, if we were talking not just SF/F, there's about another six by Janet Evanovich on the same shelf...)