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January 28, 2025


top ten authors i discovered in 2024
posted by soe 2:40 am

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl invites us to share the best new-to-us authors we read last year. In 2024, I read 52 books, which had 51 distinct authors/editors. Of those, 30 were either debut authors or authors whose work I hadn’t yet read. Here are the ten whose works I liked best:

  1. Carsten Henn: The Door-to-Door Bookstore
  2. Katya Balen: October, October
  3. Simon Van Booy: Sipsworth
  4. Karen Hesse: Out of the Dust
  5. Emily Habeck: Shark Heart
  6. Rufi Thorpe: Margo’s Got Money Troubles
  7. Valérie Perrin: Fresh Water for Flowers
  8. Nadi Reed Perez: The Afterlife of Mal Caldera
  9. E. Alix Harrow: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
  10. Sarah Hogle: Just Like Magic

Half of those are realistic fiction and half are speculative fiction/fantasy.

How about you? Which authors did you discover last year whom you would recommend?

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