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:
- Alan Bradley - Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- Martha Baillie - The Incident Report
- Nancy Springer - I am Morgan Le Fay
- Lisa Lutz - The Spellman Files
- Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop
- Georgette Heyer Why Shoot a Butler?
- Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies
- Charlotte Gray - Nellie McClung
- Jane Johnson - The Tenth Gift
- Nicolas Dickner - Nikolski
- Alison Lurie - Foreign Affairs
- Qiu Xioalong - Red Mandarin Dress
- Stephanie Kallos - Broken For You
- Lawrence Hill - The Book of Negroes
- Joseph Boyden - Through Black Spruce
- Stieg Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
- Jacqueline Winspear - Maisie Dobbs
- Anna Quindlan - Every Last One
- Elizabeth Taylor - Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
- Ngaio Marsh - Vintage Murder
- Susan Wittig Albert - The Tale from Hill Top Farm
- Peter Temple - Truth
- Rachel Ferguson - The Brontes Went to Woolworth
- Elizabeth Enright - Thimble Summer
- Carol Ryrie Brink - Caddie Woodlawn
- Lori Lansens - The Girls
- Kamila Shamsie - Burnt Shadows
- Carolyn Parkhurst - The Nobodies Album
- Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise
- Catherine O'Flynn - The News Where You Are
- Joanne Harris - Five Quarters of the Orange
- Simon Winchester - The Madman and the Professor
- Lisa Moore - February
- David Nicholls - One Day
- Alan Furst - Spies of the Balkans
- Ellen Raskin - The Westing Game
- Wayne Johnston - The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
- Jeff Lindsay - Darkly Dreaming Dexter
- Emma Donoghue - Room
- Johan Theorin - The Darkest Room
- Caroline B Cooney - Code Orange
- Deon Meyer - Thirteen Hours
- Maggie Stiefvater - Shiver
- Oliver Sacks - The Mind's Eye
- Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford
- Jeff Lemire - Essex County
- Antonya Nelson - Bound
- Dawn French - A Tiny Bit Marvellous
- Marcus Chown - We Need to Talk About Kelvin
- tbr: The Man on the Balcony - Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
New Authors: Debut Books
- James Thompson - Snow Angels
- Matthew Hooton - Deloume Road
- Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go
- Helena Simonson - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
- Kathryn Stockett - The Help
- Holly LeCraw - The Swimming Pool
- Eleanor Catton - The Rehearsal
- Ross Raisin - Out Backward
- Drew Hayden Taylor - Motorcycles and Sweetgrass
- Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Sacks
- Doug Harris - You Comma Idiot