Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week’s topic is Authors I Haven’t Read, But Want To (Submitted by Deanna @ A Novel Glimpse).
Ursula K. Le Guin
Robert Jordan
Rebecca Roanhorse
Kwame Mbalia
Akemi Dawn Bowman
Graci Kim
Sarwat Chadda
Lori M. Lee
J. C. Cervantes
Anna James
What authors would you like to read for the first time?
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week we talk about our top ten with a different topic provided by Jana. This week’s topic is ten authors that I haven’t read but would like to.
Jenn Lyons I have the first four books in the Chorus of Dragons series and I really want to read them this year.
Emily Tesh I have Silver in the Wood as an ebook. I am eager to read it and I’m also very much looking forward to her 2023 novel, Some Desperate Glory.
Alexandria Bellefleur I’ve heard great things about her Written in the Stars series. I’ve been on the lookout for new romance. So, I have added this author to my collection.
C.J. Tudor On a trip to Barnes & Nobel, I found The Burning Girls. I almost bought it but added it to my library TBR instead. I’ve since seen some good reviews for Tudor’s other books as well and I’d like to try the audiobooks sometime soon.
Martha Wells I want to read the Murderbot Diaries so badly.
Octavia E. Butler I bought Parable of the Sower last year. It’s definitely higher up on my TBR list.
Robin Hobb I don’t know that I’ll actually read Hobb any time soon, but I do want to eventually try some of her fantasy stories.
Mariana Zapata Target compelled me to buy some books from them and I found From Lukov with Love while browsing. I’ve seen great reviews for Zapata’s books.
Nina Varela I want to read Crier’s War and its sequel. I have the ebook and I’m pretty sure my library has the sequel.
Ann Leckie I really want to take some time to read some older science fiction like Ancillary Justice.
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week’s topic is New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2021.
Elizabeth May Seven Devils
Laura Lam Seven Devils
Roshani Chokshi Aru Shah and the End of Time Aru Shah and the Song of Death Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes The Gilded Wolves
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week we talk about our top ten with a different topic provided by Jana. This week’s topic is ten new to me authors I read in 2021. We did a post for this topic for Blogmas which you can find here, so I’m going to share 10 new to me authors I read in 2021 that I won’t be reading again.
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine I just didn’t love this. I don’t plan to continue the series.
Axiom’s End by Lindsey Ellis This had the potential to be right up my alley. But the second book was worse than the first and I don’t see myself reading more of Ellis’ books in the future.
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave I didn’t love how the story played out. This was a book club pick, so I have other mystery/thriller authors that I’ll continue to seek out instead in the future.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng I genuinely didn’t like this book.
The Graces by Laure Eve I couldn’t put this series down, but in a ‘staring at a car accident’ as you pass by kind of way.
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson Another book club pick that I didn’t love. The parents were all horrible.
Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah One last book club choice that I didn’t care for. I wanted this to actually be about aliens, but it wasn’t.
So, I’ll never say never, but these are the authors I read for the first time in 2021 that I don’t forsee myself seeking out again in the future. What authors did you have on your list this week?
Hello, bookworms! The last few years we’ve shared authors that we’ve read for the first time in that year and we’ve really enjoyed that. It’s fun to look back and see which authors we loved that were brand new to us this past year. So, this year we will be doing it again. Some of these are debut novels, but we’re going to be making a whole different post for 2021 debut authors, so if there are debut novels on here, they’re backlist titles.
Amanda’s New Authors
Sarah Gailey Upright Women Wanted When We Were Magic
Dahlia Adler Cool for the Summer
Andrea Stewart The Bone Shard Daughter The Bone Shard Emperor
Hanna Alkaf The Girl and the Ghost
Tessa Bailey Fix Her Up Love Her or Lose Her Tools of Engagement
Holly Jackson A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Good Girl, Bad Blood
Akemi Dawn Bowman The Infinity Courts Summer Bird Blue
A.K. Larkwood The Unspoken Name The Thousand Eyes
Fonda Lee Jade City Jade War Jade Legacy
Emily Lloyd-Jones The Bone Houses
Simone St. James The Sun Down Motel The Broken Girls
Hafsah Faizal We Hunt the Flame We Free the Stars
Kameron Hurley The Light Brigade
Tess Sharpe Far From You The Girls I’ve Been
Sarah Hogle You Deserve Each Other Twice Shy
Antonia’s New Authors
Elizabeth May Seven Devils
Laura Lam Seven Devils
Roshani Chokshi Aru Shah and the End of Time Aru Shah and the Song of Death Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes The Gilded Wolves
S.A. Chakraborty The City of Brass
Micaiah Johnson The Space Between Worlds
Maria V. Snyder Poison Study
Adalyn Grace All the Stars and Teeth
These are the authors that we read for the first time in 2021 and loved. These are all authors that we will absolutely be reading more books from in the future.
Who’s books did you read for the first time this year?
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week we talk about our top ten with a different topic provided by Jana. This week’s topic is authors that I read for the first time in 2020. (We did this for blogmas here.)
Pierce Brown
Seanan McGuire
Alisha Rai
Talia Hibbert
Katy Rose Pool
Tehlor Kay Mejia
Somaiya Daud
N.K. Jemisin
Leah Johnson
Bethany C. Morrow
These are all authors that I read for the first time in 2020. What authors were new to you last year?
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week’s topic is New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2020 (If you didn’t read 10 new authors, that’s fine! Just do what you can.)
Rin Chupeco
Jen Deluca
Kristen Ciccarelli
Amal El Mohtar
Max Gladstone
I only read five new authors last year but I’m making it a priority to branch out more this year. What authors did you discover in 2020?
Hi, bookworms! After going back through last years blogmas posts, we got a few ideas that we wanted to repeat. Today’s post is one of those. We’re going to talk about ‘new to us’ authors, meaning that these are all authors we read for the first time in 2020. Here’s Amanda’s list from last year.
Authors New to Amanda
Red Rising by Pierce Brown Middlegame by Seanan McGuire The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia Mirage by Somaiya Daud The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool
Authors New to Antonia
Well Met by Jen Deluca The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone Seven Devils by Elizabeth May and Laura Lam
These are the authors that we read for the first time in 2020. What authors are new to you this year?
Another day, another bookish list. Today’s list is going to talk about the books we’ve read this year written by authors that are new to us. We’ve read a fair bit of books by authors we’ve never read before. This list is going to include new authors that we liked and plan to read more of their writing.
Amanda’s Authors
Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman Illuminae Files
Becky Albertalli Simon vs. the Homo Spaiens Agenda
Taylor Jenkins Reid The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Marisha Pessl Neverworld Wake
Samantha Shannon The Bone Season
Hank Green An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Naomi Novik Uprooted
Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus
Sylvain Neuvel The Themis Files
Liane Moriarty Big Little Lies
Rin Chupeco The Bone Witch
Elise Kova Air Awakens
Antonia’s Authors
Kendare Blake Three Dark Crowns
Renee Ahdieh The Wrath and the Dawn
Sarah J. Maas A Court of Thorns and Roses
Josie Jaffrey The Gilded King
W. Bruce Cameron A Dog’s Purpose
Elise Kova Air Awakens
Charlie N. Holmberg Paper Magician
Amy Plum Die For Me
Leigh Bardugo Shadow and Bone
Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles
K.M. Shea Beauty and the Beast
What authors did you read for the first time this year?