I will say that when you (I) look at my reading for this year... there's a lot of romance. I did a very rough genre breakdown and came up with the following numbers:
Historical Romance: 10
Contemporary Romance: 10
Historical fiction that is not strictly romance: 2
SFF: 9
YA (I know, it's not a genre): 1
School Stories: 1 (only one?)
Self help: 5
History: 2
Some other things of note:
- all female authors but one and a half (Max Gladstone is half of This is how you lose the time war)
- all authors but three are white, and this is something I really want to work on next year. I have a goal of reading at least twenty books by non-white authors in 2020.
- Some of the SFF could just as easily have counted as Romance, and vice versa. In fact, I've switched the Heather Rose Jones books from Historical Romance to SFF and back a couple of times: they're not strictly historical (being Ruritanian) and they're not strictly Romance, either, which is why I've finally left them in SFF.
- There is at least one long-form fic counted in here - Telanu's Truth and Measure. I went on a massive re-read of fics after finishing Casey McQuiston's Red, White and Royal Blue, and earlier in the year I went on a massive NCIS re-reading spree, but for some reason the only one I went looking for (and found) on Goodreads was T&M. Might try to do better with that next year?
As for the 30 (oh, help!) books on my Currently Reading list... there's actually quite a lot of NF History there. A couple library books I need to finish sooner rather than later - and some that have already gone back to the library. Must update the list...
Hopefully I'll be a bit better at updating this blog in 2020. Wouldn't that be nice?
