Hey guys! Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week’s topic: new-to-me authors I read in 2020
What I’m going to do: list all of the new authors I read in 2020, which book(s) I read by them, and how I discovered them. Click on the book titles to see my review!
- Richard Falken – The Flaming Wrath of Árelor; several short stories
- Review request
- Gloria Chao – American Panda; Rent a Boyfriend (review coming soon)
- Both were free reads on Riveted Lit
- Alwyn Hamilton – Rebel of the Sands
- Random library pick up
- Liz Braswell – Once Upon A Dream; As Old As Time
- Ordered both online because they were retellings
- Leigh Bardugo – Six of Crows; Crooked Kingdom
- Random library pick up…I actually was unaware of the hype surrounding these books until after I read them. While I knew the Shadow and Bone series was popular, I didn’t know this one.
- Margaret Owens – The Merciful Crow
- Random library pick up. Though to be fair, I followed her on Twitter way before I read this…
- Jenna Evans Welch – Love & Luck
- Free read on Riveted Lit. Yes, I started in the middle of the series. No, that did not change what I thought of this book. I really hope to pick up the first and third one eventually!
- Sarah Enni – Tell Me Everything
- Thrift store purchase because it sounded interesting.
- L.G. Cullens – Togwotee Passage
- Review request
- Lexa Hillyer – Spindle Fire
- Purchased because it was a retelling
- Lily Webb – First three Magic & Mystery cozy mystery series (not reviewed)
- I needed a book for a readathon that featured an occult… This book was free on Kindle, and the cover was pretty… then I ended up finding the audiobook for the first three.
- Indrajit Garai – The Bridge of Little Jeremy
- Review request by a friend of the author
- Matsuri Hino – MeruPuri Vol. 1 (manga, not reviewed)
- Sister gave this to me
So I discovered 13 new authors in 2020! For having only read 38 book, that’s pretty good!
Have you read any of these authors? Who is your favorite author you discovered in 2020? Chat with me in the comments!
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Leigh Bardugo was also an author I discovered in 2020!
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So many people somehow discovered Leigh Bardugo in 2020, and I am here for it!
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You discovered so many new authors last year! I’m not sure how many I discovered so that will be my issue later when I do my own TTT post! Also the title Rent a Boyfriend has me intrigued so I can’t wait to read your review!
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Actually, I think “Rent a Boyfriend” sounds really, really bad… it has very slippery connotations 😛
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I honestly had no idea I found this many until I looked at my reading list. I was very surprised, since I thought I had been reading a lot of rereads, but apparently not as many a I thought. And yeah, it’s an interesting title! Apparently the book is inspired by a real life practice where Asian women hire dates for the holidays to avoid questions and such, and it was really neat!
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oo that’s really interesting actually!
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Spindle Fire does sound good.
My post.
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I couldn’t really get into it, but I know many people who loved it, and it is a bit unique as far as Sleeping Beauty retellings go.
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A lot of people have got into Leigh Bardugo this year – I did with Ninth House. These are the fifteen authors who were new to me last year – quite a few outside my usual reading genre.
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I know! I can’t believe so many people discovered Leigh Bardugo this year and are hyping up her books, and here I was thinking I was just so behind when I found the SoC duology! I can’t wait to look at your post!
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I made it to a list in a prestigious blog. I must be a year away of placing my books in a Best Seller list!
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Haha, I appreciate this way of looking at it. Here’s hoping very good things for your books’ future!
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