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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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Yes, Alix E. Harrow is one of my favorites. Great picks this week.

Comment by Lauren @ A 01.28.25 @ 9:24 am

I read Alix Harrow’s Starling House and really enjoyed it. Have to pick up some of her other stuff soon.

Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you.

Comment by Cholla 01.28.25 @ 11:07 am

When I was a teen librarian I always meant to read a book or two by Karen Hesse but never did. Sigh.

Comment by Anne@HeadFullofBooks 01.28.25 @ 2:00 pm

I really liked OUT OF THE DUST. It’s depressing, but also the kind of book that really sticks with you. Have you read THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah? It’s similar. I’m glad you found some great new authors to love in 2024!

Happy TTT!

Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com

Comment by Susan (Bloggin' 'bout Books) 01.28.25 @ 3:49 pm

I’m glad you enjoyed reading The Door-to-Door Bookstore. I loved that story and can’t wait to read more by Henn.

Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/authors-i-read-multiple-times-in-2024/

Comment by Pam @ Read! Bake! Create! 01.28.25 @ 4:08 pm



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