#TopTenTuesday 10 New Authors I Discovered In 2021

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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 Discovered in 2021. Here are just ten of the authors whose books I read for the first time last year, many with backlists for me to explore.

Lesley Glaister, author of Blasted Things
Edward Carey, author of Little

Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures
Ingrid Persaud, author of Love After Love

 

Claire Keegan, author of Small Things Like These
Brian Keaney, author of The Alphabet of Heart’s Desire

 

Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory
Anne Holt, author of A Memory For Murder

 

Nadifa Mohamed, author of The Fortune Men
Christy Lefteri, author of Songbirds

Which new authors did you discover in 2021?


#TopTenTuesday 2021 Releases I Was Excited To Read But Didn’t Get To

Top Ten Tuesday new

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 2021 Releases I Was Excited to Read But Didn’t Get To. Here are just some of the 2021 releases in my TBR pile that are hoping to get a look-in in 2022 and saying to themselves, ‘Please don’t let us be on the same list next year’. Links from the titles will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

April in Spain by John Banville
The Manningtree Witches by A. K. Blakemore
The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
Silverview by John le Carre
The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
Still Life by Sarah Winman