Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. It's been a while since I last participated, but this week's topic of newly discovered authors had me instantly composing a mental list . As it turns out, new-to-me authors comprised the majority of my reading this year so making this list was no easy task.
Favorite New-to-Me Author of 2013
(in no particular order, click on title for my review if available)
1. John Williams: Stoner was my favorite book of 2013.
2. Hillary Jordan: I'm glad my book club selected Mudbound.
3. Angela Thirkell: High Rising, the first of her Barsetshire novels
4. Claire Messud: The Woman Upstairs was a 5 star novel for me.
5. Beatriz Williams: A Hundred Summers was a perfect summer read.
6. Jojo Moyes: Me Before You certainly deserves all the hype.
7. David Nasaw: His Joseph P. Kennedy biography, The Patriarch, is outstanding.
8. Elinor Lipman: The View From Penthouse B... now on to her backlist!
9. Ken Follett: Fall of Giants kept me turning pages for two weeks.
10. Carol Rifka Brunt: Tell the Wolves I'm Home is simply amazing.
Have you read any of these authors? Who have you discovered this year?
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I'm so behind - the only one I've read is Moyes.
ReplyDeleteKathy - Your review made me push Me Before You up to the top of my audio pile!
DeleteOnly Angela Thirkell. I went back and looked at my reading list and I did read mostly all new authors to me too! Kathleen Kent, Hannah Kent, Morgan Callam Rogers and Kate Chopin were probably my favorites.
ReplyDeletePeggy - I want to read Hanna Kent's Burial Rites next year. Funny how we both read so many new authors this year!
DeleteJojo Moyes was one of my discoveries this year, too. I just finished reading The Girl You Left Behind and loved it. Another find for me is Sarah Jio.
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Catherine Healey - The Girl You Left Behind is near the top of my wish list now!
DeleteI love that we have two favorites in common -- and that I have eight new authors to discover!
ReplyDeleteAudrey - Thirkell and Lipman, right? ;-)
DeleteNew to me this year were Beatriz Williams and JoJo Moyes. Others on your list, I have not read, but they sound terrific.
ReplyDeletePat - It's been a great year for new authors!
DeleteThree of your authors were new to me as well (Williams, Moyes and Brunt).
ReplyDeleteNise' - So many great new authors... I wonder who we'll discover next year.
DeleteI've only read Ken Follett, but Angela Thirkell is worming her way onto my TBR shelves so it's only a matter of time. I love this time of year for the reflection, reviewing and list-making for next year!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful holiday season!
JaneGS - This is my favorite time of year as far as blogging goes. Not only do I get a chance to reflect, but reading everyone else's lists has me madly adding to my own tbr!
DeleteI loved Carol Rifka Brunt, Hillary Jordan and Claire Messud, but haven't tried any of the other authors. I need to try to get to as many as possible in 2014 :-)
ReplyDeleteJackie - So good to know we always have next year… I'm adding to my own lists as everyone posts their favorites.
Deletethank you for stopping by, but mostly thank you for your prayers, you can't know how much I appreciate them. I haven't read any of your books, but I'm putting some on my TBR pile.
ReplyDeleteIrene - I'll keep you and your family in my prayers throughout this holiday season.
DeleteInteresting. I've only read two: I did not care for Messud's The Emperor's Children and I couldn't get through Follett's Pillars. I quit at page 600 or so.
ReplyDeleteCare - Strange how polarizing The Woman Upstairs seems to be… now I'm learning The Emperor's Children had the same effect on readers. I didn't get very far in Pillars, but really liked Follett's Fall of Giants.
DeleteExcellent list! Hillary Jordan would definitely be on my list for Mudbound.
ReplyDeleteAndi - I'm so glad my book club decided to read Mudbound. It might have taken me a few more years to get to it otherwise.
DeleteSame here! And I have When She Woke waiting on my TBR now, too.
DeleteAndi - Mine, too… I understand it's very different from Mudbound.
DeleteI read Me Before You and borrowed the author's next book, The Girl You Left Behind, from the library. Lots of new authors I discover every week!
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Harvee - I can't wait to read The Girl You Left Behind!
DeleteI really loved Wolves and Me Before You, and well, you know how I felt about The Woman Upstairs!!! Ugh!!! Most of the others are already on my list!
ReplyDeleteSandy - Ha! I know The Woman Upstairs was not a hit with you… funny how polarizing that book turned out to be>
DeleteI keep hearing good things about Stoner - you've got me intrigued.
ReplyDeleteAnd well done for getting through a Follett chunkster! Did you read the entire series?
Brona - Oh, you've GOT to read Stoner. It's been years since I read writing that beautiful! I read Fall of Giants on vacation last January and am considering continuing with Winter of the World next month.
DeleteI'm impressed with your list of new-to-you authors. I'm sorry to say Ken Follett is the only I've read. I really liked his earlier books better than his super long historical tomes.
ReplyDeleteMargot - I'm putting off reading more Follett simply because of their length… will have to check out his earlier, shorter work.
DeleteAll but Thirkell and Follett are still new-to-me :<)
ReplyDeleteNan - I wish Thirkell's books weren't so hard to find.
DeleteI found Jojo Moyes in many of these lists! I've heard great things about Me Before You. I also want to read Tell The Wolves I'm Home next year (or maybe I can still squeeze it in this year) :)
ReplyDelete5eyedbookworm - Jojo Moyes certainly deserves to be on so many lists! I read Tell the Wolves I'm home in just a few days… couldn't put it down.
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ReplyDeleteI've read a lot of Elinor Lipman but not the one you mention. By far my favorite is the first of hers that I read, The Inn at Lake Devine.
ReplyDeleteThomas - On your recommendation, that is next on my list!
DeleteI discovered Jojo too and have read Follet's tome Pillars of the Earth and that kept me reading for more than a month!
ReplyDeleteStacybuckeye - Follett's books are so darn long… that's why I haven't read another one of his novels yet!
DeleteMoyes was new to me, too, this year. Definitely an author I'll be reading again. I haven't yet "met" any of the other authors on your list. Several are already on my plans to read but several others clearly need to be added.
ReplyDeleteLisa - I'm glad Moyes has other books available. Think The Girls You Left Behind will be next for me.
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