Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
This week’s topic is New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2018. This means the author doesn’t have to be new, but I hadn’t read anything by them until 2018. These are all books that I really enjoyed, so I will definitely keep an eye out for more books by the authors.
Top Ten Tuesday: New-To-Me Authors I Read (and Loved) in 2018. Do we have any in common? #ontheblog #bookbloggers #toptentuesday Click To TweetNew-To-Me Authors I Read in 2018
- J.L. Merrow – read the first 5 books in the Plumber’s Mate Mysteries (and I need more!)
- C.J. Tudor – read their debut, The Chalk Man
- Mackenzi Lee – read Gentleman’s Guide and Lady’s Guide
- Barry Lyga – finally read the Jasper Dent trilogy
- S.E. Harmon – read The Blueprint and the sequel A Deeper Blue
- Tiffany Reisz – read The Lucky Ones
- Ashley Herring Blake – read Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World
- Charlie Donlea – read all of his currently released books
- Sarah Crossan – read Moonrise
- Julie Berry – read All the Truth That’s In Me
Don’t forget – I’m giving away a book of your choice (not to exceed $15) on Twitter, if you’d like to enter. It’s open Internationally if The Book Depository ships to you. There is an extra entry in the comments of the Tweet to scroll down if you want another shot to win. Giveaway ends on January 31. Win a book here!
It sounds like 2018 was a good year for you. How do you decide what you want to read next?
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I really want to read The Chalk Man! Especially now that I know it became a fav authors of yours! Hope I love it as much as you did “)
I haven’t read any of these authors’ books, but I am planning on reading Mackenzi Lee’s Gentleman’s Guide this year.
Sounds like it was a good reading year! I recently read The Gentleman’s Guide as well. Happy reading!
Great group of new-to-you authors!
I have read Sarah Crossan before, but the rest of these are new to me.
I love that you found new authors in 2018. That’s what I want to find more of in 2019. I actually found Matt Haig in 2018 (who actually isn’t so new but new to me) and I loved his works. If you haven’t read any of his books, I’d give him a try. My favourite of his so far is How To Stop Time
I read ONE by Sarah Crossan this year. It’s an intriguing one about conjoined twins. I’ve read several of Julie Berry’s books and enjoyed most of them. She’s got a new one coming out — LOVELY WAR — that sounds really good.
Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier. Happy TTT!
I’ve never heard of any of these authors, but Chalk Man sounds really good. Just added it to my TBR! Also, how was I not already following you on Twitter?! Just corrected that too!
No, not authors I’ve heard of … until now that is.
What a great idea.
Thanks for hosting the giveaway. I really enjoyed the chalk man, that’s the first book I read this year.
Tori @ In Tori Lex
Thanks for sharing these! It’s always neat to see if there are any that I might have already known, or else find new authors for myself. I am reading a book right now that I think you would probably like for your LGBT+ reviews, it’s called the The Princess of Baker Street. It’s a middle school story, but it’s really good so far!
Mackenzie Lee was a new one for me in 2018, too. I still need to read The Lady’s Guide, though.
I love the Jesper Dent Trilogy. It’s one of the most gruesome YA series I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading.
Ashley Herring Blake really impressed me with Ivy Aberdeen. I need to read many more of her books. My intro to Julie Berry was The Passion of Dolssa. I never knew I would like a book like that, but I did, and went to really enjoy Truth as well. I read my first Crossan book last year. Moonrise was really powerful.
The Gentleman’s and Ladies’ Guide books look good to me- I’ve had my eye on those for a while actually- and seems like I saw good things about The Lucky Ones too!
Yessss to Jasper Dent! Those books were dark but so good.
The Gentleman’s Guide was awesome! I can’t wait to try the sequel this year. 🙂
Lauren @ Always Me
Well I haven’t read any of those authors!! I also read quite a few new-to-me authors this past year. Looking forward to reading even more this year!
Looks like you have found many new authors last year that I’d like to check out.
Happy reading to you in 2019!! I hope you find more new to you authors this year.
Here’s a link to my TTT post this week: https://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2019/01/top-ten-tuesday-new-to-me-authors-i.html
Great list. I really love Ashley Herring Blake’s books and Mackenzi Lee’s.
I loved All the Truth That’s in Me and The Lucky Ones! Glad to hear you did, too, Lauren!
Wow! The only one of your authors I’ve read is Julie Berry. I had Chalk Man on my TBR list last year, but just never got to it.
I’ve only heard of three of these authors. I read both One by Sarah Crossan and All the Truth That’s In Me in 2017 and I want to read The Chalk Man. I will have to look up the rest since you liked them so much.
I LOVED the Jasper Dent series! Great addition!
The lucky ones is on my list! I’m off to a slow reading start in January.
Way to go! I have got to increase my reading list for this year!
Wow! Lots of new authors… I tend to keep sticking with the same ‘ol ones adding in a few new ones here and there. I’ll have to look back at all my lists from last year and see if I read more than a handful of new ones.
I love Sarah Crossan! She’s one of those authors that sneaks up on you and before you know it, you’ve read all of her titles. I love verse and she’s one of the few young adult authors brave enough to write entirely in verse for her novels. I loved Moonrise but I hope you can get around to reading Apple and Rain, it was a book that broke me.
Thank you for sharing this list! I’m always looking for new authors to dig into!
Isn’t that exciting to find new to you authors you love? I just finsihed a book from an author last night that I was happy to find out had other books!
These are all new to me authors too! I need to get to discovering new authors.
I’m so excited for Lady’s Guide! I need to get with the program, stat!
Wow, this is quite a list. You’ve done exceptionally well in discovering new authors in 2018. I couldn’t have done that. plus, I fall back on my favorites too much. 😛 Thanks for sharing these, Lauren. I’ll be looking into some of these on GoodReads.
It is thanks to you I started reading books by B A Paris after you mentioned a book of hers (The Breakdown) last year. Always great discovering new Authors 🙂
Amazing giveaway, Lauren, and keeping fingers crossed! Also such an impressive and comprehensive list of books you have! Thank you for sharing; you know I’m always looking for new-to-me authors and you’ve shared so many over the years that I’ve absolutely loved. Hope you’re having a great week!
I love discovering new authors, though it often doesn’t leave enough time to revisit anyone!
I read Gentleman’s Guide in 2018 for the first time too! I still need to read the sequel. Amazing list! 🙂 I hope in 2019 you discover so many amazing authors.
I’ve seen a ton of blogs mention Mackenzi Lee. I haven’t read her novels yet but I’ve heard some good things about them. I hope you discover a ton of new authors in 2019.
Oh Ashley Herring Blake was also a new author to me in 2018! I read How To Make A Wish by her and I really, really loved it, can’t wait to read more 🙂
I havent read any of these authors but I keep meaning to read Mackenzie Lee!
I’ve only read Mackenzie Lee from your list and really liked the Gentleman’s Guide.
Ashley Herring Blake is an excellent author – I think I read one of hers at the tailend of 2017. Definitely a few on your list I’ve been meaning to read from! Thanks for stopping by and commenting on my blog
Always nice to try a new-to-you author 🙂 I’ve read Reisz before.