Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten New-To-Me Authors

It’s time for Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. Do visit this fun blog and read all the other lists. It’s a lot of fun and you’ll be sure to add books to your TBR pile. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is: Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read For The First Time In 2016. I’ve listed the author and the books that introduced me to them. Also, if you click on their name I’ve linked to either their Goodreads page or their website.

So, in no particular order, here is my list of favorite new-to-me authors who I read for the first time ever this year.

Megan Abbott :          

Josh Malerman:                     

Elena Ferrante:                      

Ron Rash:                                  

Ruth Ware:                                 

Emily St John Mandel:             

Téa Obreht:                                   

V.E. Schwab:                                 

Madeline Hunter:                         

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:    

 

Who are your top ten new-to-you authors? What do you think of my list?  Let me know what you think  in the comments below. Be sure to leave a link to your Top Ten Tuesday list so I can visit your blog.

 

November Wrap-Up

November is finally over. For so many reasons this month has lasted forever. I think it’s due to the closeness of the end of the year. And because I want this truly awful year to be over. My reading life has suffered a bit as well. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life premiered on Netflix  over Thanksgiving weekend, so I spent much of the time I usually spend reading instead watching Gilmore Girls episodes and reading Gilmore Girls think pieces across the web to prepare for the new episodes. Someday I may write about my love of this particular show, but today is not that day. Today, I present my reading life for the past month.

Read:

Left-Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin*^

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff*^

Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver* ^

His Wicked Reputation by Madeline Hunter  [Library eBook]

The End of Everything by Megan Abbott  [Library eBook]

* Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2016 book

^ #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks Challenge book

Favorite Read in November: 

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*

Started Reading (but didn’t finish) :

Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys*^

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey [Library eBook]

Quarterly Book Box:

This is a literature box that I subscribe to and so receive a box quarterly. I should have received this box in mid October, but they forgot to send me my box. This is the second time this has happened. Interestingly, they don’t forget to charge my credit card. In addition to the three books listed below, the box included a coffee cup with a quotation from The Mothers  and a sticker. Is it worth the price of the subscription? I’m not sure that it is, so I will write about my thoughts sometime in January.

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

Sula by Toni Morrison

Books to Read in December:

Most of this list includes books I am reading for the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2016. I only have three books to read to finish it this year, so I’m put them on the top of my list. And  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is the pick for my Skype book club.

Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Across the Web:

I love Harry Potter and that world so much. I love it so much that I love to read analysis of the Harry Potter world. In light of the recent US election, a lot of writers are seeing similarities to HP and the world today. Here is a really nice analysis of one of the worst villains of the series:  Dolores Umbridge.

This article is a holdover from my interest in female driven thrillers like Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. Why are there so many? FYI, Paula Hawkins’, author of The Girl on the Train,  next book has been announced. Click here to read. 

So how was your November? Did you read as much as you wanted to? Did Gilmore Girls interrupt your life as it did mine? Let me know in the comments below and leave a link to your wrap up. Happy Reading in December!