Charmed, delighted and enchanted – top 10 new-to-me authors from 2017
12 December 2017
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Tags: The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten New to Me Authors, Top Ten Tuesday
Every Tuesday over at The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic. I’ve swapped this week’s topic – it should be ‘Top Ten Favorite Books of 2017’ – but I never do a favourites list until the New Year – still time to fit a few more books in don’t you know. So, I’m using the topic scheduled for the New Year – 2nd Jan:
Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read In 2017
I read quite a lot of new authors this year and this was a difficult list to narrow down (I had over 20 on my first draft). there are some great books on here and I highly recommend them:
- Defender by GX Todd (Voices #1)
- Skullsworn by Brian Staveley
- The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden
- The Court of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Spark
- Blackwing by Ed McDonald
- Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
- Devil’s Call by J Danielle Dorn
- The Punch Escrow by Tal M. Klein
- Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill
- The Nine by Tracy Townsend
Books and travelling with Lynn 
I see at least three here I plan to read soon (or need to make time for) – Devil’s Call, Sea of Rust and Spoonbenders. I am about 70 pages into The Prey of Gods and love it so far! So many debut authors – how great. I love finding new authors to love.
I had well over 20 new to me authors and it was so difficult to narrow this list down. I wanted to pick them all.
Lynn 😀
Excellent list! A lot of these will make my list as well. If I had to pick my favorite one here I’d pick The Nine and Spoonbenders (oops that’s two!)
So difficult to narrow things down isn’t it. The Nine and Spoonbenders – so good.
Lynn 😀
Lynn, I have also skipped this week’s topic as I don’t do my Top 10 till later in the year either. Although I didn’t think to do one of the other week’s topics. Doh!
Yeah, I thought I could swap them over – plus I might do a couple of extra lists this year because I’ve had a lot of good books and it’s nice to spread the word.
Lynn 😀
I look forward to them 🙂
2017 has indeed been a great year for debuting authors and for those who were new to me – some of whom are part of your list. It reminds me of an old Sinatra song that went “it was a very good year”… 🙂
Haha – yes, it has indeed been a very good year and I seem to have had such a lot of good books.
Lynn 😀
It has been a great year for new authors for me too – I’ll second your choice regarding Spoonbenders and Sea of Rust – but I want to get hold of The Nine and The Punch Escrow.
I really strongly recommend both of those – The Nine was just brilliant and The Punch Escrow – well, I hardly know what to say, so unexpected and gripping.
Lynn 😀
Part of my New Year’s resolution – to read these two!
I won’t be doing this list until the new year, but I think it will be tough for me to narrow it down as well. I may have to split the list into “best debuts” and “best new-to-me authors who have been around for a while” in order to cover them all “D
Yeah – I didn’t want to pick my ultimate ‘best of’ list yet because there’s still a couple of weeks. I was thinking that I might do a couple of lists this year because it’s so difficult to narrow down to 10.
Lynn 😀