Wednesday, December 26, 2018

#Top10of2018: New-to-Me Authors

NEW-TO-ME AUTHORS

I love discovering new authors, and every year there are a great bunch of debuts or some books, which for some reason I had missed in the past. Either way, I am so happy I finally read books by these authors, because they were all amazing. I loved the books pictured below, and even got to read a little bit of the author's backlist, solidifying my desire to read more of their work. 


Who were some of your favorite new-to-me authors this year?
Let us know in the comments!

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  1. I actually haven't read any of these!I do own Stay Sweet, Love & Gelato and Starfish though. Just need to get to them. Great list!

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    1. I am shocked you have not read any of these. Love & Gelato and Stay Sweet are so fun and cute. Starfish is more emotional, but very, very good.

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  2. Love this list, Sam, and we share several favorites - Akemi Dawn Bowman, Jenna Evans Welch, Ashley Herring Blake, and Sara Barnard.

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    1. I am so glad I gave these books a go, because I have found some new favorite authors.

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  3. Someday I’m going to read A Quiet Kind of Thunder. It’s been on a lot of “best” and “favorites” lists this month.

    Aj @ Read All The Things!

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    1. That book is on a lot of lists, because it just makes people happy. It's a cute, adorable story of first love, and I was so caught up in it.

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  4. These are all new to me! Starfish looks really good and that cover is so pretty!

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    1. Starfish is good if you want something really emotional, but with a lot of beautiful parts, and over all, hopeful.

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  5. Sara Barnard! I loved A Quiet Kind of Thunder and really liked Goodbye, Perfect by her, I can't wait to read all of her books, she's a fantastic writer :) I also loved Starfish! :)

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    1. I am reading Goodbye, Perfect and Fragile Like Us next week, but sadly, not all her books are available in the US. Boo!

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  6. I haven't read any of these, although I know I want to try Siobhan Vivian some day.
    Check out my Top 10 New to Me Authors

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    1. I had tried one of her co-writes and wasn't into it, but I LOVED Stay Sweet, and am definitely on board for her next release.

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  7. I still haven't read A Quiet Kind of Thunder event though it's been on my TBR since you reviewed it. Maybe in 2019... :)

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    1. If you read AQKoT you know what you'll be? Happy. I swear! It just made me feel happy.

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  8. I was super curious about Meet the Sky and Starfish so I'm happy to see it among your top of the year! I want to read them now even more :)

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    1. I really enjoyed both of those books. Starfish is really, really painful at times. The mother is so terrible in that book.

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  9. Thanks for sharing some new to me also authors. :-)
    sherry @ fundinmental

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  10. I really enjoyed Stay Sweet - such a cute book.

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    1. It was adorable. I am hoping Vivian's next book is more like that. It sounds promising.

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  11. Love it when we get to discover new authors! I read A Quiet Kind of Thunder, and it was my first Sara Barnard book too. I'll be reading more!

    Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction

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    1. I am doing a One Old, One New with Barnard, and I am looking forward to reading two of her books in a row.

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  12. I tried lots of new authors this year that I enjoyed from different genres! PA Glaspy, Jon Athan, Jeff Strand, SM Wilson, PK Hawkins, Carolyn McCray, Matthew Reilly, Ryan Graudin, Ernest Cline, Jeff Menapace, Martha Wells, Vivian Shaw, Orlando A Sanchez, Greig Beck, Gerry Griffiths, Russell James and LD Goffigan!

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    1. I have read a few of those authors. I DNFed Ready Player One, and mostly liked the Strand book I read. It was just a little too black comedy for me.

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  13. Oh my gosh, Sam, I actually haven't read any of your new authors! I guess I really should remedy that next year - as it seems we have very similar tastes for books :)
    Lexxie @ (un)Conventional Bookworms

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    1. I did find a lot of my faves on your lists. So, I agree that we definitely share some reading tastes.

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  14. Ivy Aberdeen is on my favorite book of 2018 list and the author was new to me as well.

    Karen @ For What It's Worth

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    1. That book was phenomenal! I really want to get my hands on Blake's next MG book. It also sounds wonderful. I have been on the wait list for Girl Made of Stars, and I am hoping to get to more of her back list too.

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  15. I love picking up new-to-me authors. I will get to Starfish in 2019, haha. Hope you discover even more wonderful authors in 2019!

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    1. I am glad I finally read Starfish. I really enjoyed it.

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  16. There were a few for me this year. I loved Tara Leigh, Julia Kent, Courtney Summers and so many more. It seems like a read a lot of firsts for me and not enough series reads like I should. =) I will try to rectify that with Cassandra Clare books. =)

    Mary

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    1. I have one or two Kent books, and you have me really curious about Tara Leigh (from all your praise). I have not been starting any new series other than in the contemporary romance realm. I think I burned out on them.

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  17. I LOVED Ivy Aberdeen so I definitely need to read more by Ashley in 2019.

    -Lauren
    www.shootingstarsmag.net

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    1. I am trying to do her back list right now, but her MGs book coming out next year sounds amazing.

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  18. So many authors and I haven't read them or even heard of most of them! It's one of the things I love most about the variety of blogs I flick through. There's so many diverse tastes and so very many books and authors waiting to be discovered!

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    1. I did all YA books for this list, but I bet you would have known the ones I would have included if I did my adult books.

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    1. Some are new to me, but not new authors, but I am deeply entrenched YA contemporaries.

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  20. I have read a few of these authors! I really liked Starfish! And I haven't read Love and Luck, but I did like Love and Gelato! I want to read ALL the Sara Barnard books- I own like 3 of them? And Rachel Allen, too. I have enjoyed some of Ashley Herring Blake's stuff too- her debut maybe? I can't remember, but yeah. Glad that these were such wins for you!

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    1. I am reading Goodbye Perfect and it confirms my opinion that Sara Barnard is awesome. I have Fragile queued up for after that. Then, I just have to wait for the rest of her books to get a US release.

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  21. Oh my gosh, LOVE Rachael Allen, Akemi Dawn Bowman, and Ashley Herring Blake. I will read anything any of them write. I need to get to Love & Gelato soon!

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    1. I have read both Bowman's books and am working on the backlist for the others. Their books are great fits for me. The Love books are fun and adorable and I adored them both.

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  22. Thanks for sharing these. Several of them are new to me authors and that's always exciting:)

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  23. I haven't read any of the authors from your selection but I love the feeling of falling for a new-to-me-author! A few years back Sandra Brown was that for me and I went on a binge read of her back log. Fun!

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    1. I have seen so many positive reviews for Brown's books. I think I added a few to my wishlist at the library. They sound great.

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  24. Sara Barnard was also a new to me author when it came to reading A Quiet Kind of Thunder and I enjoyed it so much that I bought her other novel Beautiful Broken Things! I'm looking forward to hopefully reading it next year. I also already knew Rachel Allen from reading The Revenge Playbook. I need to read more of her books as well!

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    1. BBT is Fragile Like Us in the US, and I really enjoyed it. The sequel is coming out this year. It catches up with the girls two years in the future, and I really hope I can get it in the US. I have not read any other Rachel Allen books, but I want to check out her back list, because Taxonomy was so lovely.

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  25. I haven't heard of most of these authors, but I'm glad you found some new ones to enjoy. That's always exciting—especially when they have a nice, long backlist to explore!

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    1. I am late to the party on a few, but happy to finally be reading their books

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