Who better to advise you on your 2016 book purchases than The Millions, a website lauded by the New York Times for being an "indispensable literary site"? We were excited to dive into this list, and our first step was to break it down in the GA Tally. Out of 93 titles, 44 were written by women. 47% of The Millions' novels to look forward to were written by women!
Read MoreThe Telegraph has already released a Best Books of 2015 list. If this is what we can look forward in this year's batch of year end lists, we can't wait. 48% of the books on The Best Books of 2015 list were written by women, landing The Telegraph in the GA Hall of Fame!
Read MoreThe prestigious Man Booker Prize recently released their long list for 2015. We're thrilled that this year's long list features 54% books by women! Out of 13 books, seven are by women authors.
Read MoreDoes this sound modern to you?
- Modern Library Board's 100 Best Novels: 9% are novels by women. (Edith Wharton appears twice. Because finding 9 women authors was just too much.)
- Modern Library Board's Top 100 Best Nonfiction: 12% books by women.
The list criteria doesn't get much more generous than "Best"---there's no time limitations, no genre restrictions, and there are 100 slots to fill. So it seems unbelievable that out of 200 books in Modern Library's lauded "Top 100" lists, only 21 are by women.
Read MoreAudible.com just released their list of The Best Books of the Century So Far, featuring multiple books per year as well as contenders for the best books of 2015. Out of of 133 books, 54 were written by women. That means 40% of Audible's picks for future classics from this century were by women authors.
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