This week’s theme is the top ten new to me authors I’ve read this year. So, with the help of Goodreads, here goes!
- Kerry Greenwood. Actually technically not new to me, because I’d read Cocaine Blues before. But I hated it, for some reason, and didn’t read the whole thing the first time. This time, I devoured it and went on to eat up the rest of the series too (something I’m still in progress with). So I’m going to pretend the first time didn’t happen. I was clearly cranky at the time.
- Leigh Bardugo. I know I’m late to the party, but I finally read Shadow and Bone, and found myself unexpectedly riveted.
- Ann Leckie. Again, rather late to the party, but at least it meant that I got to read the whole trilogy more or less at once, with just a couple of months waiting for the last one!
- K.J. Parker. I’m not just late to the party, I crashed in after several hours. But I read the Tor.com novella and now I know I need to get round to more of Parker’s work.
- Freda Warrington. Her vampire novels are just ridiculously addictive. Hurrah for Titan rereleasing them so they came to my attention.
- Patricia Briggs. I have some problems with her books, but they’re also dead fun.
- Elizabeth Bear. Rather late to the party again, but Karen Memory made me want to read more of her work.
- Seth Dickinson. The Traitor Baru Cormorant was awesome.
- Zen Cho. I enjoyed Sorcerer to the Crown.
- Greg van Eekhout. I really need to get round to the third book in his trilogy, Dragon Coast.
I’ll be interested to see what other people have discovered this year! A couple of mine were actually debut authors, but as you can see from where I’ve been late to the party, a lot of them were discoveries of authors who’ve been going a while.
These are all new-to-me, which scares me a little (am I slipping?)
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz recently posted…Authors I Read for the First Time in 2015
A genre thing, perhaps! They’re mostly sci-fi/fantasy?
The only one I’ve heard of is Patricia Briggs and I love her wolf books!
chucklesthescot recently posted…Chuckles on Tour: Lake District Day Four
I do enjoy them! They’re a lot of fun.
I love Patricia Briggs… Haven’t read any of the others, but for a couple, that’s a timing thing: I decided to hold off on Ann Leckie until the whole trilogy was available. Now I have all three books and just need to get started! Same w/Elizabeth Bear — I want to read Karen Memory and preordered the paperback, coming in January. 🙂
Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies recently posted…Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read In 2015
Yeah, Briggs’ books are fun! Anne Leckie and Elizabeth Bear are lots of fun, hope you enjoy those!
I haven’t read many of the authors on here, but I do love Leigh Bardugo a lot, so it’s nice to see her make the cut 🙂
Allyson recently posted…Top Ten Tuesday: 2015 New Favorites
I can’t believe it took me so long to try her work!
Someone else that was late with Leigh Bardugo and enjoyed her! I only read her books this year as well and i have no idea why i waited so long because i really enjoyed her. So happy to her that ti isn’t the last person to only start reading her this year!
Fantastic list 🙂
Dawnie recently posted…Top 10 Tuesday: 10 New-to-me authors i fell in love with in 2015
Yep, same here! I need to finish the Grisha trilogy and get my hands on Six of Crows.
I can’t say as I recall reading any of the authors on your Top Ten Tuesday post this week, so I have some new to me authors to check out for sure.
Here’s a link to my TTT post for the week: http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2015/12/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-new-to-me.html
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Ooh, I do recommend them! I had fun this year with reading.
Haha, I totally know what you mean with K.J. Parker. He made my list too! So we both crashed his party hours after doors opened 😀
Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum recently posted…Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten New-To-Me Favorite Authors I Read For The First Time In 2015
Well, at least I’m in good company then!
Great list! I really wanted to read a Patricia Briggs book this year as well as the Grisha trilogy. I’m still hopeful that I will have the time to read the Grisha trilogy this year, or at least start it!
Well, there’s still time! You can do it!
I just recently read Sharps by KJ Parker and I really enjoyed it. Still need to read Bardugo.
I have that on my list, too! And I need to finish reading the Grisha trilogy. I’m halfway through.