Publisher's Weekly's Gender Problem

Publisher's Weekly announced its 2009 list of best books. Here they are:

Cheever: A Life
Blake Bailey (Knopf)

Await Your Reply
Dan Chaon (Ballantine)

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Neil Sheehan (Random House)

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Daniyal Mueenuddin (Norton)

Big Machine
Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes (Pantheon)

Stitches
David Small (Norton)

Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford (Penguin Press)

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Geoff Dyer (Pantheon)

Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann (Doubleday)

The problem? There are no female writers on the list. And to be honest, I'm kind of not all that concerned. It's a list of the ten best books for 2009. It's not like women haven't been on the list before. I sometimes wonder if political correctness really needs to be as inclusive as it is sometimes.

Oh well. I didn't make the list either, so I'm thinking there's a legospaceman bias as well, but that's just me.

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