Publisher’s Weekly recently released their Best Books of 2009 list and it didn’t include a single woman author in the top ten.  They half-heartedly acknowledge this in a editor’s note at the top…

We ignored gender and genre and who had the buzz. We gave fair chance to the ‘big’ books of the year, but made them stand on their own two feet. It disturbed us when we were done that our list was all male.

…but it doesn’t change the fact that no woman wrote a book worthy of the top ten, in their minds.  They didn’t go back and change their methods upon realizing this.  In addition, only one of the men in the top ten is a person of color. Read more »