#TopTenTuesday New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2023 #TuesdayBookBlog

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Top Ten TuesdayTop 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 2023. Looking back at the books I read in 2023, I’m quite pleased to find many of them were by new-to-me authors. (I’ve excluded debut authors on the basis they’re new to everyone!) Links from the title will take you to my review.

  1. The Binding by Bridget Collins
  2. The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead
  3. The Traitor by Ava Glass
  4. Adama by Lavie Tidhar
  5. The Well of Saint Nobody by Neil Jordan
  6. Held by Anne Michaels
  7. The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan
  8. The Scarlet Papers by Matthew Richardson 
  9. The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry
  10. The Settlement by Jock Serong

What authors did you discover in 2023?

My Week in Books – 28th January 2024

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MyWeekinBooksOn What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I published my review of History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund.

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Books I Meant to Read in 2023.

Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading. 

Thursday – I published my review of To Kill a King by David Gilman.

New arrivals

book cover of The Mountain in my Shoe by Louise BeechThe Mountain in my Shoe by Louise Beech (Orenda)

A missing boy. A missing book. A missing husband. A woman who must find them all to find herself.

On the night Bernadette finally has the courage to tell her domineering husband that she’s leaving, he doesn’t come home. Neither does Conor, the little boy she’s befriended for the past five years. Also missing is his lifebook, the only thing that holds the answers. With the help of Conor’s foster mum, Bernadette must face her own past, her husband’s secrets and a future she never dared imagine in order to find them all. 

Little Fires EverywhereLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Penguin)

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned — from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.

Enter Mia Warren — an enigmatic artist and single mother — who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.

When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town — and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.

On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

  • Book Review: Perfume River by Robert Olen Butler
  • Book Review: The Slowworm’s Song by Andrew Miller
  • Book Review: Other Worlds Were Possible by Joss Sheldon
  • Book Review: His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet