1) List the authors that were new to you this year, regardless of year of publication.Now...I've read about 180 books this past year, and I'm always on the search for new authors. I sat up last night going through my book journal and making a list of all the new-to-me authors I'd read in 2008. The final tally was 85. Before I start typing up my gargantuan list, I'm going to get the other two rules of the meme out of the way. I have few 2008 debut novels in the list, so I won't overload the boldface. As for the third rule about tagging people, I choose to tag no one, but if someone reads this post and wants to join in--you're more than welcome! Here goes nothin'....
2) Boldface those which were debuts (first novel published in 2008).
3) Tag as few or as many others as you’d like.
New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2008:
- Duane Swierczynski, The Blonde
- Shane Gericke, Cut to the Bone
- Rosemary Harris, Pushing Up Daisies
- Naomi Hirahara, Summer of the Big Bachi
- Jessica Speart, Gator Aide
- Joyce Holms, Hot Potato
- Carolyn Haines, Them Bones
- Suzanne Arruda, Mark of the Lion*
- Jo Walton, Farthing
- Kit Ehrman, At Risk
- Judith Merkle Riley, A Vision of Light*
- Scott Westerfeld, Uglies*
- Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish*
- Benjamin Black, Christine Falls
- Kris Nelscott, A Dangerous Road*
- Kevin Brookmeier, A Brief History of the Dead*
- Simon Beckett, The Chemistry of Death
- Rennie Airth, River of Darkness*
- Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life as we knew it*
- Shirley Tallman, Murder on Nob Hill
- Brunonia Barry, The Lace Reader*
- Deborah Crombie, A Share in Death
- Carrie Young, Nothing to Do but Stay
- Wendy Roberts, The Remains of the Dead
- Mark Z. Danielewski, The Whalestoe Letters*
- Mary Saums, Thistle and Twigg
- Peter Robinson, Gallow's View
- Lois Phillips Hudson, The Bones of Plenty*
- Kate Morton, The House at Riverton
- David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself
- Kathy Hogan Trocheck, Every Crooked Nanny
- Carol Bugge, Who Killed Blanche Du Bois?
- Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time*
- Lauren Willig, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
- Carol Goodman, The Ghost Orchid
- Donna Ball, Smoky Mountain Tracks
- George D. Shuman, 18 Seconds
- Curt Colbert, Rat City
- Sharon Kay Penman, The Queen's Man*
- Ake Edwardson, Sun and Shadow
- Susan Goodwill, Brigadoom
- Kate Furnivall, The Russian Concubine
- Jean Hegland, Into the Forest*
- John Harvey, Flesh and Blood*
- Caroline Graham, The Killings at Badger's Drift*
- Richard Guy, The Mysterious Receding Seas
- Sheila Roberts, On Strike for Christmas
- William Dietrich, Napoleon's Pyramids
- Dolores Stewart Riccio, Circle of Five
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
- David Stinebeck & Scannell Gill, A Civil General
- Jerry Spinelli, The Library Card
- Sally Gunning, The Widow's War*
- Susan Kelly, The Lone Traveller*
- Diane Wei Liang, The Eye of Jade
- Kate Collins, Mum's the Word
- Dale E. Basye, Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go
- Robert M. Eversz, Shooting Elvis*
- Will Ferguson, Happiness*
- Deborah & James Howe, Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery*
- Clea & John Adams, The Dragonfly Secret
- Octavia E. Butler, Kindred*
- Chris Roberts, Heavy Words Lightly Thrown
- P.D. James, Cover Her Face*
- Cornelia Read, A Field of Darkness*
- Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels*
- Penny Rudolph, Listen to the Mockingbird
- Ann Purser, Murder on Monday
- Kathi Appelt & Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer, Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky*
- Heather Henson, That Book Woman
- Peter C. Brown, The Fugitive Wife
- Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo* (US debut 2008)
- Steven Rinella, American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
- Johan Theorin, Echoes From the Dead*
- Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know*
- Gene Stratton, Killing Cousins
- Kate Horsley, Confessions of a Pagan Nun*
- Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
- Clare Walker Leslie, Drawn to Nature
- Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl*
- Linwood Barclay, No Time For Goodbye*
- David Grann, The Lost City of Z* (US debut 2009)
- Christine Goff, A Rant of Ravens
- Anne Seagraves, Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West*
- MaryAnn Easley, I Am the Ice Worm
Oh Wow! I always knew you read a lot but I guess it takes a list like this to bring it home. Thank you for being involved.
ReplyDeleteSo much reading, such beautiful photographs and a wonderful writing style - to be called your friend is an honour.
A special Happy New Year from one desert to another.
Happy New Year! You sampled some great authors in 2008.
ReplyDeleteWow, that is a lot of new authors! Happy New Year!
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