It’s Tuesday again, and you know what that means! It’s when everybody in the book blogging world gets together for Top Ten Tuesday! Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating. But Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is a lot of fun. Today’s Topic is “Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2019” but I’m going to go with authors I discovered last year, so I retitled it “New to Me Authors from 2019”. Let’s get started!
VE Schwab: I started wanting to read her books back in 2018, and I finally got around to reading one of her books. She was probably the author that I owned the most books of yet had never read her. Her books always went on sale and they always looked good. Now I just have to read another one of her books!
Sandhya Menon: When I found out Sandhya Menon was speaking at the Colorado Teen Literature Conference last year, I knew I wanted to read one of her books before I went. Not only did I read When Dimple Met Rishi, but I also got on her street team! It’s such an honor. And you’ll definitely want to look for her books in the future ;-).
Jodie Lynn Zdrock: 2019 was Jodie Lynn Zdrock’s debut year, and I’m so happy to have been able to get an ARC for her first (and now second) book! And she’s such a nice lady too.
Laura E. Weymouth: I bought Ms. Weymouth’s debut, The Light Between Worlds, in 2018, but I didn’t get around to reading it until 2019. It’s funny, we started chatting on Twitter before I even knew she was publishing a book. I have her sophomore book, but I haven’t read it yet either. But soon!
Maggie Stiefvater: Ms. Stiefvater was another one of those authors that I talked about reading months before I actually did. I’ve read five of her books now, and plan to read The Scorpio Races in November.
Astrid Scholte: Another debut author from last year was Astrid Scholte, author of Four Dead Queens. Her next book comes out on March 3 (along with half the other books in the universe I want to read) so I’m getting it on audiobook.
C.G. Drews: C.G. Drews, AKA Paperfury, was not a new-to-me person, as I read her blogs and Twitter comments before 2019, but I read her 2018 debut, A Thousand Perfect Notes, last year.
Jessica Brody: It wasn’t until a few months ago that I realized that Jessica Brody was, in addition to writing one of my favorite books from last year, the author of Save the Cat Writes a Novel. I still haven’t read Save the Cat, but she was a new-to-me author last year.
Jenn Bennett: I had seen Jenn Bennett’s books around for a while, but when I saw Alex, Approximately on sale last year, I had to pick it up. Then I had the opportunity to read an ARC of The Lady Rogue.
Jennifer L. Armentrout: My first Jennifer L. Armentrout book was Storm and Fury, but it wasn’t the last book I read of hers. I still have to read more of her Lux series, but I’ll get there someday.
2019 was the year that I read most of the authors that I’d been saying “oh I really need to read” for months and months. Even though we’re only a couple weeks into 2020, I’ve already read a new author. Hopefully this will be a good reading year too!
I love SCORPIO RACES. It is one of my favorites,for sure. I’m off the board this week with my favorites of the decade
Yay! I don’t think I’ll forget to read it in November, but I’ll probably put it in my bullet journal once I get the future log page for November up.
Astrid scholte is someone I definitely want to try, after hearing good things about Four Dead Queens. And I’ve been curious about Schwab too after playing the Bookish Games edition that was based on her books. Jenn Bennett’s another one.
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I couldn’t pass on that beautiful cover of Ms. Scholte’s last year… I was drooling over it for half of 2018! I hope you get the chance to read these three.
It is always great to discover new authors. Great list!
Thanks! I think, even though I may not have a huge list of authors that I “have to” read anymore, there will always be new authors to read, because there are always people like me writing books and hoping to be published someday, and also authors that stop writing for one reason or another.
YAY for Maggie!! I love her– and her writing is so good!! I need to read CALL DOWN THE HAWK very soon. Jessica Brody is one of my favorite authors!! If you want to read more from her, I loved A WEEK OF THE MONDAYS and IN SOME OTHER LIFE.
Thanks for the suggestions! It’s funny, my boy was reading the Spirit Animals series last year, and he read a Maggie Stiefvater book before I did! He only beat me by a couple of weeks though, because it was right before I started reading The Raven Boys.
Sandhya Menon certainly was a find for me as well — and I am looking forward to her next one. I’d love to know though: what does being on her street team mean?
A street team fora book helps with the launch of the book by promoting it, sharing info on their blog, reviewing the ARC, etc. I’m one of her career street team members, so I get to review all of her books. It’s pretty awesome. We have monthly chats, she shares stuff with us that I can’t share here, etc. She only lives about a half hour away from me so I’ll be going to her Of Curses and Kisses book launch next month.
I personally love Storm and Fury and JL Armentrout is everywhere. She’s got fantasy, contemporary romance, paranormal and a bit of sci-fi (Lux is kinda sci-fi slash paranormal), and they may be YA or NA or Adult (?) so a lot to choose from if you’re trying to get into her other books. I hope you have fun though! VE Schwab is definitely the author I have yet to read more books of.
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I have a few more of her books… I won an ARC from a friend (that I have yet to read because I want to finish the Lux series first)… but I see them on sale and pick them up when they’re $1.99. I do that with VE Schwab took. I get all these books on sale and… someday I’ll read them!
Jenn Bennett is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. The Light Between Worlds was such a lovely book, I can’t wait to read Weymouth’s next one!
A Treason of Thorns is on my winter TBR, so I hope to get to that one soon!
Great list! Sandhya Menon is an author I really want to try this year. =)
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She has several series to choose from now! I still haven’t read From Twinkle with Love, even though that one has at least one scene that takes place in my local library!
Wow, you found a lot of new authors this past year. How cool.
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Thanks. 🙂
So glad you discovered Sandhya Menon in 2019. I’m really looking forward to her 2020 releases. Enjoy your week!
Thank you, you too!
So glad you got into both Maggie Stiefvater and V.E. Schwab – they’re two of my favourites! I definitely recommend A Darker Shade of Magic as a future Schwab read. 🙂
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Hopefully I’ll get to all of them eventually!
I love VE Schwab! She’s one of my favorite authors. I got Spectacle for Christmas, so I’ll be reading that one in 2020.
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I’m sure I’ll read more of Schwabs books this year! I hope you like Spectacle.
So happy to see you love Maggie Stiefvater! She’s one of my top authors. And The Scorpio Races is so very good. Enjoy!
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Thanks! Looking forward to reading it in November!