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Top Ten Tuesday - New-to-Me Favorite Authors Read in 2015

12/8/2015

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This weekly frenzy of listing is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
I read quite a lot of books in 2015 by authors I had never read before. It made this list of some of my favorites rather hard to narrow down!
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  • Marissa Meyer (Why did I wait so long to start reading the Lunar Chronicles?)
  • Sarah Jio (Goodnight June had everything I love in a book.)
  • Katie Schuermann (She could have been writing about my little Midwestern town in House of Living Stones!)
  • Andy Weir (The Martian was so good.)
  • Graeme Simsion (I really enjoyed The Rosie Project.​)
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  • Joanna Rakoff (After reading her memoir, My Salinger Year, I feel like I know her.)
  • Alan Bradley (Flavia de Luce is one of the best characters ever.)
  • Charlie Lovett (I devoured The Bookman's Tale this summer, and it will not be long before I read his other books.)
  • Mary Roach (I was both fascinated and disgusted by Packing for Mars.)
  • Mark Mason (I would be remiss if I didn't include the author of one of my top reads of 2015 - Walk the Lines: The London Underground, Overground.​)
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Carrie link
12/8/2015 05:08:23 pm

One of my goals for 2016 is to finally read the Lunar Chronicles! <a href="https://readingismysuperpower.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/top-ten-tuesday-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/">My TTT</a>

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
12/8/2015 08:17:22 pm

And here I thought I was the only one left who hadn't read the Lunar Chronicles! :) Hope you'll enjoy them in 2016!

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Lisa @ Captivated Reader link
12/8/2015 05:18:55 pm

I can't say as I recall reading any of the authors on your Top Ten Tuesday post this week, so I have some new to me authors to check out for sure.

Here's a link to my TTT post for the week: http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2015/12/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-new-to-me.html

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
12/8/2015 08:18:01 pm

Isn't it great that there are always new authors to discover? :)

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Lois link
12/8/2015 06:56:47 pm

I need to read the Lunar chronicles as well. Someday! Hopefully in 2016,

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
12/8/2015 08:19:13 pm

I've only read the first book in the series so far. I think you would really enjoy them, Lois. Totally new spin on classic fairy tales!

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Jade @ Reading With Jade link
12/11/2015 08:36:25 am

Sarah Jio is one of those much loved authors I really need to get round to reading!

This year I discovered Diane Chamberlain and Heather Gudenkauf - both authors have been writing for quite some time with a longish backlist of books, but I see myself reading more and more of their works in the future.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
12/13/2015 04:40:13 pm

Isn't it fun to discover a new author with a backlist? There's more bookish goodness to come!

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