This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is: Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read For The First Time In 2016. To make this a little more difficult I am not including authors who had debut books in 2016 – because they’re new to everyone, not just to me.
1. Pierce Brown – Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star. You all know my love for him and the Red Rising series by now. I can’t wait to read what he writes next!
2. Julie Buxbaum – Read: Tell Me Three Things. So far this is the only book I’ve read by her, but I definitely want to read more.
3. Beth Kendirck – Read: Cure for the Common Breakup, New Uses for Old Boyfriends, Put a Ring on It. I found a new fun chick lit series this year. I will be reading a lot more from her.
4. Holly Black – Read: The Curse Workers trilogy, The Darkest Part of the Forest. I ended up really enjoying The Curse Workers series and while The Darkest Part of the Forest wasn’t exactly my cup of tea, I still absolutely love her writing.
5. Black Crouch – Read: Dark Matter. Though I didn’t think Dark Matter really lived up to the hype, I was very impressed with his writing. I watched most of the first season of Wayward Pines and really liked it until it got really weird, but it did make me really want to try the book series.
6. Vince Flynn – Read: American Assassin, Kill Shot. My brother, who is not a big reader, became obsessed with the Mitch Rapp series and gave me the first couple of books to read and I enjoyed them. I definitely plan on continuing to read the rest of the series. Sadly, Vince Flynn has passed away. A new author has taken over the series, though, so there should still me more Mitch Rapp stories to come.
7. Tamara Ireland Stone – Read: Every Last Word. I’m not really sure if I’m interested in her other books, but Every Last Word will always be a very important book to me. I have never related to a character as much as I did with the MC in that book.
8. Lisa Jewell – Read: The Girls in the Garden. I really liked The Girls in the Garden and already have I Found You from NetGalley.
9. Denise Hunter – Read: Many, many of her books! So I’ve probably read more books by Denise Hunter this year than any other author and I don’t feel like listing them all. There have been several that I really, really enjoyed and a couple that I really hated or even DNF-ed. Despite the bad ones, I still have more books from her on my TBR.
10. Ruth Ware – Read: The Woman in Cabin 10. The Woman in Cabin 10 definitely had some creepy, hard-to-put-down moments and I want to check out more from her.
Lisa Jewell is a new author for me this year as well. I Found You is at the top of my favorites list for this year:)
I’m really looking forward to I Found You! I’m trying to save it for early next year.
Lisa Jewell was new to me this year as well and Ruth Ware is great!
I’m really glad I discovered both this year!
A few of mine: Eric Lindstrom, J. Daniels, Ann Omasta, Nicole Archer, Martina McAtee, Anna Banks, Renee Carlino, Liza Weimer, Shae Ross. This year I really went out of my way to read new authors.
Wow I haven’t read any of those. I will need to check them out!
I’ve only read a couple of these authors! I’ve been curious about Pierce Brown, though. Seeing him on here makes me want to read one of his books.
My TTT.
Pierce Brown is AMAZING! I can not recommend him enough.
A lot of new ones! I’ll have to check some of these authors out :).
They are all great! 🙂
I want to read Tell Me Three Things. I’ve heard great things about it!
I really enjoyed it! I hope you get to read it soon!
I really enjoy Blake Crouch and Pierce Brown’s books as well.
I can’t believe it took me so long to read Pierce Brown. The Red Rising series has become one of my favorites.
Lisa Jewell definitely! I liked The Girls in the Garden a lot and will definitely be checking out I Found You. Dark Matter is on my short list to read too, hopefully soon. And I’ve heard good things about Tell Me Three Things as well.
I’m really looking forward to I Found You. I keep hearing it’s really good. While Dark Matter didn’t live up to the hype for me, it’s worth the read and Tell Me Three Things is so cute!
Julie Buxbaum is on my list too! Tell Me Three Things is really cute and adorable <33 I also want to read Pierce Brown's books since I heard many good things about it. Nice list!
It really is! I need to read more from her!
I love Tamara Ireland Stone. You have to read her time travelling series. SOOOO good!
I’ll need to look into it!
Lots of good ones on your list!! I love several of these authors. Hey Pierce Brown…think I need to read his series soon. 😉 Lol.
Yes, Pierce Brown!! I will never stop recommending him!
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