One of my (as yet to be finalised) aims for this year is not just to keep up my reading, but to increase the number of books by female writes I read.
To put this in perspective, and because I'm sad enough to have kept track, last year I completed 44 books. Of these, 28 were by men, 15 by women and 1 was an anthology; in percentage terms this breaks down as 64%, 34% and 2%. When it comes to different authors, I read books by 19 male authors and just 6 different female authors - a 73% to 23% split. (The difference is down to the fact that I'm reading (listening to) a number of book series, including the Miss Marple and Ripley books.)
So, this year, a supplementary aim to that of reading 40 books is to achieve gender balance overall, and to improve that secondary split as well.
There are a number of good candidates already on my list - but I've always operated on the basis that a book list can never be too long...
P.S. If you want to see more of my book reading habits, you'll find my goodreads page here.