So Publishers Weekly put out a list of the top 10 books for 2009 and didn’t include any women writers on it. Everyone is in an uproar, at least according to some sources.

As I have written before on here, I am torn about this issue. I don’t want women to get special treatment, and yet lists like these clearly show that there is a bias against women writers in the publishing industry. And since gender has nothing to do with whether writing is good or bad, it suggests that the people who control these lists either ignore anything written by a woman or they don’t like the subjects women tend to write about.

Troublesome indeed. Still, in this case, I just can’t bring myself to care that much. Why? Well, it’s Publishers Weekly.