Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week the theme was Top Ten Authors New-To-Me in 2016. And it was definitely a good year for discovering new-to-me authors!
- Marissa Meyer – I know, I know. What took me so long? I read almost all of her books this year: Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, Winter, Fairest, and Heartless.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – It took years for me to build up the courage to read a classic I was expecting to hate. I was pleasantly surprised. I LOVED The Great Gatsby.
- Victoria Schwab – I thought A Darker Shade of Magic was fascinating, and quickly picked up the second one, A Gathering of Shadows. I can’t wait for the release of A Conjuring of Light in February!
- Jamaica Kincaid – I discovered Jamaica Kincaid when I was looking for Caribbean authors to read while on vacation in Nevis this past August. Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, and I really enjoyed her novel Annie John, a coming of age novel about a girl growing up in Antigua.
- Rainbow Rowell – I just read Eleanor & Park recently, and I can’t wait to read more by Rowell soon!
- Gayle Forman – I wasn’t in love with Leave Me when I read it, but I definitely liked Gayle Forman’s writing enough to want to read more of her books!
- Bryan Stevenson – I am in awe of Bryan Stevenson’s career, and all that he has accomplished as director of the Equal Justice Initiative. His book Just Mercy, along with Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, really opened my eyes this year to the deep, institutional inequalities that remain in America’s criminal justice system.
- Anthony Doerr – I am very selective about the World War II era novels that I read. I can only handle reading one or two a year, at the most, since it hits too close to home (my husband’s side of the family is Jewish, and lost family members in the Holocaust). I am glad All The Light We Cannot See made the cut, it was an excellent read.
- Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca is fantastic! It has just the right blend of gothic atmosphere and intrigue.
- Tahereh Mafi – I really enjoyed Mafi’s writing style in Furthermore. She writes in a way that is whimsical and fun, the way that she plays with language and words is delightful.
What authors have you discovered this year?
4thhouseontheleft 
I’m thinking I may also give this a go this week. Shocking but true I also have Victoria Schwab on my list as well as Patrick Ness and Victoria Aveyard 🙂
I haven’t read either Patrick Ness or Victoria Aveyard!
Would definitely recommend both.
Cinder was good. I love Victoria Schwab! And All The Light We Cannot See is sitting on my shelf, staring out at me, wondering when I’m going to read it.
Great list! Marissa Meyer and Victoria Schwab are on my list as well 🙂 Rainbow Rowell, Gayle Forman and Tahereh Mafi are some of my all-time faves as well! And Anthony Doerr is still on my TBR.
Oh my gosh, over here I thought I was the only person who’s read Annie John! I was hesitant to try Furthermore because I didn’t like Mafi’s “Shatter Me” but maybe I will end up reading it. I hear good things about it. I discovered Adam Silvera and Nicola Yoon this year and now I’m in love with them!
I included Schwab and Meyer on my list too 🙂 I still haven’t read The Lunar Chronicles (I know, shame on me) but I read Heartless last month and loved it. I read Gayle Forman’s If I Stay and Where She Went a couple of years ago and definitely recommend them if you’re looking for more of her books to check out!
Here’s my TTT if you’re interested: https://kourtnireads.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/top-ten-new-to-me-authors-i-read-during-2016/
Interesting choices – most of them other than Doerr (which I didnt much like) and Scott Fitzgerald I’ve not read most of these authors. My own TTT list just got published https://bookertalk.com/2016/12/07/new-authors/
I haven’t read any books by these authors although I have definitely heard about some of them like Rainbow, Kincaid and Mafi. I will try check out some of their books.