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.
- Sara Barnard - A Quiet Kind of Thunder
- Rachel Allen - A Taxonomy of Love
- Stacie Ramey - The Secrets We Bury
- Jenna Evans Welch - Love & Gelato, Love & Luck
- Siobhan Vivian - Stay Sweet
- McCall Hoyle - Meet the Sky, The Thing with Feathers
- Ashley Herring Blake - Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
- Akemi Dawn Bowman - Starfish, Summer Bird Blue
- Mia Garcia - The Resolutions, Even If the Sky Falls
- Stephanie Tromly - The Trouble Series
Who were some of your favorite new-to-me authors this year?
Let us know in the comments!
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!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
DeleteLove this list, Sam, and we share several favorites - Akemi Dawn Bowman, Jenna Evans Welch, Ashley Herring Blake, and Sara Barnard.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad I gave these books a go, because I have found some new favorite authors.
DeleteSomeday I’m going to read A Quiet Kind of Thunder. It’s been on a lot of “best” and “favorites” lists this month.
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
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.
DeleteThese are all new to me! Starfish looks really good and that cover is so pretty!
ReplyDeleteStarfish is good if you want something really emotional, but with a lot of beautiful parts, and over all, hopeful.
DeleteSara 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! :)
ReplyDeleteI am reading Goodbye, Perfect and Fragile Like Us next week, but sadly, not all her books are available in the US. Boo!
DeleteI haven't read any of these, although I know I want to try Siobhan Vivian some day.
ReplyDeleteCheck out my Top 10 New to Me Authors
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.
DeleteI still haven't read A Quiet Kind of Thunder event though it's been on my TBR since you reviewed it. Maybe in 2019... :)
ReplyDeleteIf you read AQKoT you know what you'll be? Happy. I swear! It just made me feel happy.
DeleteI 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 :)
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed both of those books. Starfish is really, really painful at times. The mother is so terrible in that book.
DeleteThanks for sharing some new to me also authors. :-)
ReplyDeletesherry @ fundinmental
Always glad to add more books to your TBR. =)
DeleteI really enjoyed Stay Sweet - such a cute book.
ReplyDeleteIt was adorable. I am hoping Vivian's next book is more like that. It sounds promising.
DeleteLove 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!
ReplyDeleteNicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
I am doing a One Old, One New with Barnard, and I am looking forward to reading two of her books in a row.
DeleteI 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!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
DeleteOh 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 :)
ReplyDeleteLexxie @ (un)Conventional Bookworms
I did find a lot of my faves on your lists. So, I agree that we definitely share some reading tastes.
DeleteIvy Aberdeen is on my favorite book of 2018 list and the author was new to me as well.
ReplyDeleteKaren @ For What It's Worth
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.
DeleteI love picking up new-to-me authors. I will get to Starfish in 2019, haha. Hope you discover even more wonderful authors in 2019!
ReplyDeleteI am glad I finally read Starfish. I really enjoyed it.
DeleteThere 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. =)
ReplyDeleteMary
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.
DeleteI LOVED Ivy Aberdeen so I definitely need to read more by Ashley in 2019.
ReplyDelete-Lauren
www.shootingstarsmag.net
I am trying to do her back list right now, but her MGs book coming out next year sounds amazing.
DeleteSo 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!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
DeleteWow, all of these are new to me!
ReplyDeleteSome are new to me, but not new authors, but I am deeply entrenched YA contemporaries.
DeleteI 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!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
DeleteOh 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!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
DeleteThanks for sharing these. Several of them are new to me authors and that's always exciting:)
ReplyDeleteI am always looking for new authors to read!
DeleteI 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!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
DeleteSara 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!
ReplyDeleteBBT 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.
DeleteI 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!
ReplyDeleteI am late to the party on a few, but happy to finally be reading their books
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