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What’s the male author / female author split of your library?
#poll
Slight female leaning
Slight male leaning
Heavy female leaning
Heavy male leaning
Around 50/50
205 votes
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Anonymous 3w

Thought you meant my local public library and I was like how tf am I supposed to know

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Anonymous 3w

Female authors are writing absolute fire murder mysteries these days but I’m amassing a small collection of male investigative thriller authors finally 😌

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Anonymous 3w

I don’t read men’s books. Not consciously, they just don’t cater to my taste or what I look forward too. Descriptions just don’t hook me in or anything.

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Anonymous 3w

I don’t think a single one of my books has been written by a man

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Anonymous 3w

I read a lot of fantasy, which tends to be written by men, but also a lot of romance, which tends to be written by women. I also do fantasy romances, again often written by women. But I also do a lot of MM romance (because I’m a queer man) and even though the vast majority of them are also written by women, I do go for the ones written by men, so I have a small but growing amount of romance books by men too. Overall women leaning but not heavily

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Anonymous 3w

Okay I just went and looked at my shelf and I think it’s about 50/50, but mostly because I have a lot of classics (male biased from my pretentious days in middle school when I thought I was too good to read contemporary fiction) and I have a lot more books by prolific male authors than prolific female authors (King, Sanderson, Grisham, Jordan, and Backman vs Schwab, French, and Slaughter)

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Anonymous 3w

I’ve genuinely never considered this in my life. I’d have to look, I have no clue

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Anonymous 3w

I genuinely don’t rlly know any male authors who right books where the target audience isn’t strictly for men. The only ones I can think of are Rick Riordan and John Green

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

Except for one man (for me personally):

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

Never read it but it finally might be time

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

Do ittttttttt. Be warned that it is middle grade so it can read a little juvenile at times (because Percy is 12 and it’s meant for 12yo) but I reread it a couple years ago (college) and I thought it held up!

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

This is valid. Some genres are so dominated by one or the other you can’t really help it

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 3w

maybe a little more male leaning bc I have all of Rick Riordan and John Green’s books. but I feel most of my books in general are women ? so actually maybe more female leaning bc I have all Emily Henry and Taylor Jenins Reid and Sally Rooney

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 3w

I’d add Hank Green, Sanderson, King, Grisham, Pierce Brown, Eugenides, Ken Liu, Cixin Liu, Dinniman, Brendan Slocumb, Hosseini, Blake Crouch, and Backman, plus most of the male authors of nonfiction on my shelf to that list (these are just the male authors I have on my shelves that I’ve read. I can’t think of many books I’ve read where the target audience is exclusively male tbh)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Oooh grisham’s one I forgot. His books are def more accessible than his peers (baldacci, Haley, hell even Archer)

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