Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week we're talking about 2012 author discoveries. Here are my favorite new-to-me authors of 2012, in no particular order.
Amor Towels - Rules of Civility
Junot Diaz - This is How You Lose Her
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
Anne Bronte - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None
Jennie Wingfield - The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
Junichiro Tanizaki - The Makioka Sisters
Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Siobhan Fallon - You Know When the Men Are Gone
Jennifer Egan - A Visit From the Goon Squad
Which authors have made your 2012 brighter?
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I have read Agatha Christie but not the others. So many good authors out there, glad you found these.
ReplyDeleteHarvee - I've had a great year with new authors. It was very hard to narrow this list down to just ten.
DeleteOh, so many good ones this year: John Green, Hari Kunzru, Marie Semple...
ReplyDeleteAmy - Maria Semple was so hard to leave off this list... I almost did a Top 11 Tuesday!
DeleteYay for the classics!
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Sophie - I enjoyed seeing classics on your list, too!
DeleteA wholehearted YES on those last three. On a side note, I'm listening to the biography of Steve Jobs and he dated a woman named Jennifer Egan...I'm wondering in my head if it is the same one...
ReplyDeleteSandy - Hmmm, wonder if that the same Jennifer Egan...
DeleteSo many great authors on that list, some I have read, while others are still waiting to be experienced!!!
ReplyDeleteStaci - This has been a great year in terms of new-to-me authors!
DeleteGreat list! Agatha Christie is fantastic. I need to read more by her.
ReplyDeleteLoni - I do, too!!
Deleteinteresting titles. Junot Diaz is one I would want to read.
ReplyDeleteNana - I was very impressed with Diaz loosely connected stories in This is How You Lose Her. I've downloaded Oscar Wao and hope to listen soon.
DeleteLove your list! I liked The Tenant of Wildfell Hall quite a bit when I read it back in high school - Anne was my next favorite Bronte sister after Charlotte. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteCecelia - I will definitely be reading more by and about the Brontes in 2013! Thanks for visiting.
DeleteYes, Elizabeth Gaskell is worth getting to know better. I remember the surge of joy when I discovered her myself--a new author with a slew of novels to explore!
ReplyDeleteJaneGS - I'll definitely be spending more time with Elizabeth Gaskell next year!
DeleteI'd really like to read Junichiro Tanazaki next year.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite 'new to me' authors this year have been Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Jenkins and Mary Stewart.
Anbolyn - I've enjoyed several of Barbara Pym's novels, too, and really want to read Elizabeth Jenkins soon.
DeleteI really need to get around to reading some Junot Diaz. I've had The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao on my TBR for a few years now but haven't picked it up.. Great list!
ReplyDeleteBenna - This is How You Lose Her was a really good audio read by the author. Not sure I would have appreciated it as much in print. I recently downloaded Oscar Wao.
DeleteGreat list of authors! I, too love Rachel Joyce and Jennie Wingfield! And I need to stop putting off and read Rules of Civility!
ReplyDeleteLisa - I think you would really enjoy Rule of Civility, too!
DeleteI think the only one I've actually read on your list was Christie, although several others are on my to-read list.
ReplyDeleteCarol - Agatha Christie is excellent. have several more of her books on my to read list, too!
DeleteThe only one I've read of those is Agatha Christie! I enjoyed discovering Toni Morrison and Sarah Jio this year :)
ReplyDeleteStacybuckeye - I 'discovered' Toni Morrison last year...wonder why it took us so long, lol! Hope to read Sarah Jio next year :-)
Deletegreat list! I need to put some of these on my 2013 to-read list. Two new authors I am glad to have discovered this year are Sere Prince Halverson (The Underside of Joy) and Jennifer Miller (The Year of the Gadfly).
ReplyDeleteBooksnyc - I'm not familiar with either of those authors... off to look them up now. It was great meeting you at Random House on Friday. What a weekend!
DeleteJenny Wingfield is one of my favorite new-to-me authors too. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake was such a good book.
ReplyDeleteVasilly - And Jenny seems like such a nice person, too. I've enjoyed talking to her on twitter.
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