#TopTenTuesday New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2024 #TuesdayBookBlog

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 Top Ten Tuesday topic is New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2024. Looking down the list of books I read in 2024 I was pleasantly surprised by how many were by authors I’d never read before. Here are just ten of them. Links from each title will take you to my review.

  1. The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
  2. His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
  3. Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf
  4. Clear by Carys Davies
  5. The Wager by David Grann
  6. A Better Place by Stephen Daisley
  7. James by Percival Everett
  8. Mania by Lionel Shriver
  9. The Paris Peacemakers by Flora Johnston
  10. Afterlight by Jaap Robben, trans. by David Doherty

What new authors did you discover in 2024?

#TopTenTuesday Most Recent Additions To My Book Collection #TuesdayBookBlog

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 Top Ten Tuesday topic is Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection. My list is a combination of gifts from others, gifts to myself, prize wins and recent NetGalley approvals (denoted by asterisks). Links from each title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

  1. A Year in a Small Garden by Frances Tophill (BBC Books)
  2. The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor (Harvill Secker)
  3. The Midnight Hour by Eve Chase (Penguin)
  4. A Maigret Christmas And Other Stories by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
  5. The Mouthless Dead by Anthony Quinn (Abacus)*
  6. Woman in Blue by Douglas Bruton (Fairlight)*
  7. The Paris Dancer by Nicola Rayner (Aria)*
  8. The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins (William Morrow)
  9. The Spoiled Heart by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker)
  10. Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall (John Murray) *

What’s new on your bookshelves or wishlist?