It's not just you. It's a difference between what English and American men read in general. American reading patterns are much more "gendered" than English (which I say based both on broad publishing surveys and close observation of an extended family in the U.K.). Take two women who once were both winning major prizes: Anita Brookner and Anne Tyler. Englishmen would be much more like read Anita Brookner b/c she won a Booker than American men would be to read Tyler b/c she won a Pulitzer.

My sense is that this relates to the different educational systems: specifically, that England has major female authors (Eliot and Austen) whom students must read to pass A-levels or individual exams for Oxbridge colleges. For similar tests American male students might read, say, Hawthorne, Twain, Poe, etc. along with Shakespeare and other English male titans. They traditionally haven't had to read women, though this is changing.

Those patterns stick and influence film and book publishing more in the U.S. than in the U.K. b/c those industries are more powerful here. (I'm speaking specifically of England--not the U.K. in general--b/c the Scots have their own educational system.) It's disappointing, but publishing has opened up vastly to minority authors recently, and some of that redounds to the benefit of women as to men.