Reading in 2008

My older brother has a pie-chart to tell the world about his expenditure. I have a list of percentages to tell the world about the sorts of things I read last year. Here you go.

Novel, genre (i.e. detective stories, romance novels and the execrable Twilight series): 22.2%
Novel, literary (e.g. Christopher Isherwood): 19.5%
Criticism (e.g. Janet Malcolm and Slavoj Zizek): 18.3%
Poetry (read Katia Kapovich if you have a poetry slot in your schedule): 18.3%
Plays: 6.0%
Biography/Memoir (e.g. Christopher Reid's edition of Ted Hughes's letters): 3.9%
Art (books of pictures): 2.9%
Books of short stories: 2.4%
Novel, graphic: 1.7%
Religion (e.g. Jeremy Taylor's The Marriage Ring): 1.2%
Science (e.g. some books by some guys named Steve): 1.2%
History: 1.0%
Miscellaneous: (e.g. Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information): 1.0%
Journals: 0.2%
Food & Drink: 0.2%

22.2+19.5+18.3+18.3+6.0+3.9+2.9+2.4+1.7+1.2+1.2+1+1+0.2+0.2 = 100% right on the nubbin.