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Around the World in 80 books (mostly) by female authors
Inspired by themis-athena's own post and challenge. I also need to read more books from different authors than I usually do, so I decided to try this out, albeit with a couple changes.
For the first half of 2020, here's how many authors I've read:
Dark red indicates a book from a female author, blue a book from a male author, and green that I've read at least a book from a male and a book from a female author from that country.
Books read (so far) in 2020:
America (North)
USA
Octavia Butler - Parable of the sower
Naomi Novik - His Majesty's Dragon
Asia
Japan
群 ようこ - 無印親子物語 (Youko Mure - Unlabelled parent-and-children stories)
Europe
Italy
Anna Maria Ortese - Il cardillo addolorato
UK
Agatha Christie - Cat among the pigeons
Josephine Tey - The daughter of time
Surprisingly for me, this year I've already been able to read through more books than usual - shorter ones, sure, but still. I tend to stick mostly to authors from the United Kingdom and the United States, but lately I managed to also add books from a Jordanian/Saudi author, which is a good start. But most important for me, I'm also going through a book in Italian by a female author, which is a bit of a change of pace for me.
Let's compare with how many books I've read since I started this account on Booklikes (I'm considering my old account as well):
Books read from 2018 to 2020:
America (North)
Canada
Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven
USA
Octavia Butler - Parable of the sower
Kristina Cook - La plus douce des victoires (originally in English, I read the French translation)
Tessa Dare - Various romance novels (originally in English, I read the French translation)
Diane Duane - The door into fire
Mary Hoffman - Stravaganza Series (City of Masks; City of Stars; City of Flowers)
Eloisa James - Le couple idéal (originally in English, I read the French translation)
N. K. Jemisin - The Hundred Thousand Kingdom
Naomi Kritzer - Fires of the Faithful; Turning the storm
Naomi Novik - His Majesty's Dragon
Asia
Japan
群 ようこ - 無印親子物語 (Youko Mure - Unlabelled parent-and-children stories)
田島列島 - 子供はわかってあげない (Rettou Tajima - Kids don't understand) [comic]
惣領冬実 - 太陽のイヂワル (Fuyumi Soryou - Damned sun) [comic]
Europe
France
Céline Rouillé - Demain n'attend pas
Ireland
Marian Keyes - The woman who stole my life
Italy
Anna Maria Ortese - Il cardillo addolorato
UK
Agatha Christie - Cat among the pigeons
Josephine Tey - The daughter of time
Sarah Waters - Affinity
Breaking it down in stats:
Books read in 2020
Books by female authors: 6
Books by male authors: 4
Books read since 2018
Books by female authors: 24
Books by male authors: 14
Overall I definitely read a lot of literature written by women, especially fantasy novels. I definitely need to read more from authors that aren't American, however.
And since playing with mapchart.net is pretty fun, I also decided to make another map to see, out of curiosity, how many books with female main characters I've read this year:
Books read in 2020 with female main characters:
America (North)
USA
Tom Sweterlitsch - The Gone World
Octavia Butler - The Parable of the Sower
Asia
Japan
群 ようこ - 無印親子物語 (Youko Mure - Unlabelled parent-and-children stories)
Europe
France
Jean Echenoz - Cherokee (has an ensemble cast and among them there are women, so it counts)
UK
Agatha Christie - Cat among the pigeons (technically a Poirot adventure, but it counts)
3
 by female authors)