Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point, ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic. Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.
Looking back on my 2020 reads, I saw that I added a good number of authors I never read before, and that some of them introduced me to series I either did not know about, or had not started yet.
So, without further ado, here are (in no particular order) the ten new authors who brightened my TBR in the past year:
Becky Chambers, Michael Connelly and Vivian Shaw get the lion’s share in this department, since the covers I listed are simply place-holders for the rest of their respective series, two of which still have several books to explore… But that’s for the (hopefully near) future! 😉
Space and Sorcery 
Chambers was my start end end of 2020. It‘s been a couple of years since I read Bennett‘s Divine Cities, but those were amazing, and I‘m missing Sigurd.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Divine Cities is on my “wanted” list – which is just as crowded as my actual TBR but… who’s counting? 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
what’s the difference of these two lists?
LikeLiked by 1 person
The TBR is my to-be-read list, i.e. books I already own and are (more or less patiently) waiting to be read, while the books in the “wanted” list are just wishful thinking – for now 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
so, “wanted” is even further away (other than compulsive buys) from reading. How many do you have on the tbr? a year’s worth of reading or more?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Probably more… Since I do practically all or my reading through ebooks, there is no problem with storage space, and I tend to accumulate books like squirrels do with acorns 😀
Then I get distracted by NetGalley ARCs, and the books in my TBR have to wait…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Don’t talk about the Netgalley drug! I read twice as many eBooks than dead trees and still have far too many unread.
LikeLiked by 1 person
The 54 days time limit does offer an incentive, though…
LikeLike
I don’t care about that. Stripping the DRM relieves me from that additional stress.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I would love to read Ring Shout. It’s one of those books that I really regret not getting on board with and have now added it to my list to pick up a copy. I’m sure I read somewhere that it had been optioned for adaptation – but I might have made that up!
Lynn 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
It would be interesting to see an adaptation of Ring Shout – maybe as a mini-series, since it’s just a novella, so there’s hope that Netflix or some such will truly option it! 🙂
LikeLike
Jeremy Szal and P. Djeli Clark were highlights for me too! I love discovering new authors and I’d love to add Becky Chambers to this year’s list😁
LikeLiked by 2 people
I waited a long time before tackling Chambers, and now I need to read more, since another book will be soon added to the other two that I still have to read… 🙂
LikeLike
An excellent list! P. Djeli Clark is a huge one for me too. Hopefully, I can also discover Robert Jackson Bennett’s books in the very near future! 😮 Would you be able to note down ONE author you HAVE to discover this year though? 😛
LikeLiked by 1 person
The year is still young, who knows? 😀 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well this is an amazing list! Becki Chambers is on my TBR!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I badly need to move forward with her Wayfarers series 🙂
LikeLike
I completely agree about Robert Bennet Jackson and Becky Chambers – and I’m very intrigued about Lina Rather! I think I’ve got P. Djeli Clark on my TBR… Cracking list here, Maddalena:))
LikeLiked by 1 person
And I’m certain there are many more waiting to be discovered – too many for the time we have, but we are resigned to that, are we not? 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hm. I’m not as resigned to that state of affairs as I ought to be!
LikeLiked by 1 person
😀 😀 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
What a treat to have added Becky Chambers to your list last year! For me, Luke Arnold was also a first 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Arnold turned out to be a very pleasant surprise, and now I need to hunt down the second book in the series… 🙂
LikeLike
I see a couple of my favorite authors on there–namely Shaw and Chambers. 🙂 I also see a couple that I’ve been meaning to read for a while. Oops! Great list!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I hope that Shaw will not stop here with the Greta Helsing series, because I had great fun with these novels 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I know that she was working on some other things (she used to be very local to me before she moved to Arizona with her wife so I went to a reading of hers at our local con before stuff was shut down) so I’m hopeful we’ll see some interesting things from her in the future!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Great news, thank you! Even if she does not continue with the Helsing series, I will more than welcome her new work, because I enjoy her narrative style very much 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
How many amazing books!! Becky Chambers and Bennett’s were new toe authors too, and I loved them both! Now I just have to read the sequels!! (and the other books by them!)
LikeLiked by 1 person
I have Bennett’s Shorefall and the other Chambers books in my TBR, all that’s left is for me to pick them up and start reading! 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
Becky Chambers is one I’ve been meaning to, and failing to try since 2018 😭
LikeLiked by 1 person
I have been shuffling her books down the queue for a while as well, but now that I have… broken the ice, I hope to keep reading her novels 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Where would you suggest I start?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Before tackling the Wayfarers series with “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet”, I read the novella “To Be Taught, if Fortunate”, that is a standalone and gave me a good idea of Chambers’ style and themes, so I wonder if that might work for your as well… 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’ve been enjoying throwing novellas into my reading to break up the larger novels. So I think that sounds like a good place
LikeLiked by 1 person
Happy reading then! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I hadn’t thought about looking for how many reads were by authors new to me. I’ll have to take a look. I did thoroughly enjoy Sisters of the Vast Black, and only recently got into Robert Jackson Bennett, though by way of his Divine Cities books. There are several others here I’d love to read.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’ve been looking at Bennett’s Divine Cities with great interest: one of these days I will get there – hopefully… 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person