Saturday, December 19, 2009

CHALLENGE: New Author Challenge


Hosted at Literary Escapism, you pick the level of new authors you hope to read next year - 15, 25 or 50 new authors.

The Guidelines: the authors must be new to you and, preferably from novels. Anthologies are a great way to try someone new, but only a third of your new authors can be from anthologies.

All the details are at this post. I'll keep track of up to 25 new authors, but I want them to be authors of more than one book, if possible.

I'll start keeping track here:
  1. Alan Bradley - Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
  2. Martha Baillie - The Incident Report
  3. Nancy Springer - I am Morgan Le Fay
  4. Lisa Lutz - The Spellman Files
  5. Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop
  6. Georgette Heyer Why Shoot a Butler?
  7. Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies
  8. Charlotte Gray - Nellie McClung
  9. Jane Johnson - The Tenth Gift
  10. Nicolas Dickner - Nikolski
  11. Alison Lurie - Foreign Affairs
  12. Qiu Xioalong - Red Mandarin Dress
  13. Stephanie Kallos - Broken For You
  14. Lawrence Hill - The Book of Negroes
  15. Joseph Boyden - Through Black Spruce
  16. Stieg Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
  17. Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
  18. Jacqueline Winspear - Maisie Dobbs
  19. Anna Quindlan - Every Last One
  20. Elizabeth Taylor - Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
  21. Ngaio Marsh - Vintage Murder
  22. Susan Wittig Albert - The Tale from Hill Top Farm
  23. Peter Temple - Truth
  24. Rachel Ferguson - The Brontes Went to Woolworth
  25. Elizabeth Enright - Thimble Summer
  26. Carol Ryrie Brink - Caddie Woodlawn
  27. Lori Lansens - The Girls
  28. Kamila Shamsie - Burnt Shadows
  29. Carolyn Parkhurst - The Nobodies Album
  30. Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise
  31. Catherine O'Flynn - The News Where You Are
  32. Joanne Harris - Five Quarters of the Orange
  33. Simon Winchester - The Madman and the Professor
  34. Lisa Moore - February
  35. David Nicholls - One Day
  36. Alan Furst - Spies of the Balkans
  37. Ellen Raskin - The Westing Game
  38. Wayne Johnston - The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
  39. Jeff Lindsay - Darkly Dreaming Dexter
  40. Emma Donoghue - Room 
  41. Johan Theorin - The Darkest Room
  42. Caroline B Cooney - Code Orange
  43. Deon Meyer - Thirteen Hours
  44. Maggie Stiefvater  - Shiver
  45. Oliver Sacks - The Mind's Eye
  46. Elizabeth Gaskell  - Cranford
  47. Jeff Lemire - Essex County
  48. Antonya Nelson - Bound
  49. Dawn French - A Tiny Bit Marvellous
  50. Marcus Chown - We Need to Talk About Kelvin
  51. tbr: The Man on the Balcony - Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo


 New Authors: Debut Books
  1. James Thompson - Snow Angels
  2. Matthew Hooton - Deloume Road
  3. Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go
  4. Helena Simonson - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
  5. Kathryn Stockett - The Help
  6. Holly LeCraw - The Swimming Pool
  7. Eleanor Catton - The Rehearsal
  8. Ross Raisin - Out Backward
  9. Drew Hayden Taylor - Motorcycles and Sweetgrass
  10. Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Sacks
  11. Doug Harris - You Comma Idiot