#TopTenTuesday New-To-Me Authors I Read In 2020

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post. Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists. Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2020. I love being introduced to new authors, especially if they have a back catalogue of other titles for me to explore. Here are just ten I discovered in 2020. Links from the titles will take you to my review.

Joseph O’Connor (Shadowplay)
Ocean Vuong (On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous)
Celia Rees (Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook)
Sarah Hawkswood (River of Sins)
David Young (Stasi Winter and The Stasi Game)
Carol Shields (The Stone Diaries)
Jodi Picoult (Small Great Things)
C.S. Quinn (The Scarlet Code)
Christine Dwyer Hickey (The Narrow Land)
Lucy Adlington (Summerland)

Which new authors did you discover in 2020?

#TopTenTuesday Books I Meant To Read In 2020

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post. Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists. Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Books I Meant to Read In 2020 but Didn’t Get To. So, so many…but here are just ten, all books I purchased in 2020 but still haven’t found time to read. 

Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
The Diver and the Lover by Jeremy Vine
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
The Night Raids by Jim Kelly
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Those Who Are Loved by Victoria Hislop
The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan