Top Ten Authors New To Me in 2014

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke & the Bookish. It’s awesome. Every Tuesday, the lovely ladies over there give us book bloggers wonderful and fun topics to create our lists! Check out what others have posted by going over there!

http://brokeandbookish.blogspot.com

This week’s topic is –

Top Ten Authors New to Me in 2014

So, looking over the books I have read so far this year, I am disturbed to find that I really did not read many new authors! I feel shame and will try better in 2015!

1. Hannah Kent- Burial Rites

2. Graeme Simsion- The Rosie Project

3. Gabrielle Zevin- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

4. Beatriz Williams- The Secret Life of Violet Grant

5. Matthew Thomas- We Are Not Ourselves

6. Lois Lowry- The Giver

7. Monica McInerney- Hello From the Gillespies

8. Sherman Alexie- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

9. Andra Watkins-To Live Forever- An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis

10. Priya Parmar- Vanessa and Her Sister

Can you recommend a new author for me?

17 thoughts on “Top Ten Authors New To Me in 2014”

I was tempted to re-read The Giver before the movie came out. I may read it before watching it on DVD.

I highly recommend The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To.

http://nashvillebookworm.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/top-ten-tuesday-2014-new-to-me-authors/

December 9, 2014 at 4:45 pm Turn the Page Reviews says:

It was a first time read for me!

Reply

The only book on this list that I’ve read is The Giver. But, I am dying to read Burial Rites. I’ve heard that it’s pretty great. I also want to read The Rosie Project and The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. This is a great list! I’m not sure what authors you’ve read, but I recommend Jodi Picoult and Jojo Moyes!

December 9, 2014 at 4:46 pm Turn the Page Reviews says:

I listened to Burial Rites on audio book and highly recommend it. I can’t wait to read the new Picoult.

Reply

So glad you discovered The Giver this year! It really is a great book.

I read The Giver this year for the first time and loved it too. I thought it was the first Lois Lowry I had read until I realised that she wrote the Anastasia Krupnik books which I loved when I was a kid!

Great list! I’m reading Burial Rites at the moment. 😀

I’m happy to see Hannah Kent on your list!

December 11, 2014 at 11:47 am Turn the Page Reviews says:

Was this her debut? I thought it was wonderful and am actually looking forward to seeing it as a movie- something I never say!

Reply

I still haven’t read the Giver yet. I want to do that before watching the movie! I also keep hearing good things about The Rosie Project

The Giver is an excellent book. It was a great choice for a school read. True Diary of PTI I read in college and enjoyed so much!

December 11, 2014 at 11:46 am Turn the Page Reviews says:

I just read Alexie for a book club held through my kids’ school- they had to read it for summer reading. I loved it!

Reply

I loved Burial Rites, and A. J. Fikry is one of my all-time favorites! Someone else had recommended a Beatriz Willams book to me — I need to check it out!

I read The Giver like two weeks ago, it was good. Few of those books I’ve been wanting to read. Good list!

Here’s mine in case you would like to see it – http://wonderstruck-kcks.blogspot.com/2014/12/top-ten-new-to-me-authors-i-read-in-2014.html

Burial Rites was SUCH a fantastic book – so great that you were able to discover it this year! And The Giver is one of my all time favorites. I pick it up every few years and have been doing so since I was in elementary school. Glad it ended up being a good read even as an adult!