Top Ten Tuesday: New to Me Authors Discovered in 2025

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s prompt is:

Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2025: New to Me Authors Discovered in 2025

I actually read a surprising amount of new authors last year. Here are my ten favourites:

Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill

Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

The Bone Raiders by Jackson Ford

This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara

No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes

No Women Were Harmed by Heather Mottershead

Too Old For This by Steve Jones

By Blood by Salt by JL Odom

Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2026

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s prompt is:

Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2026

This week is so easy.  I have so many books that I’m looking forward to that the only problem now is reining myself in.  I may have already demonstrated my excitement for some of these books but a little more can’t hurt can it and I cannot tell a lie – this is a banging list!

Nightshade and Oak by Molly O’Neil

Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett

Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher

Steel Gods by Richard Swan

Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence

The Children by Melissa Albert

The Summer Fun Massacre by Craig DiLouie

The Tinder Box by MR Carey (cover to be revealed)

The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno Garcia

The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty

Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I read in 2025

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s prompt is:

Best Books I read in 2025

This is my first Top Ten Tuesday for 2026 so although I’ve actually already covered this topic (here) and also looked at my highlights for 2025 (here), I thought I might take a look at both posts and see if I could see which books coincide or not and maybe choose another ten books from my highlights.  Here goes:

Grave Empire by Richard Swan

A Far Better Thing by HG Parry

My Ex, the AntiChrist by Craig DiLouie

Senseless by Ronald Malfi

It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest

No Women Were Harmed by Heather Mottershead

Paladins Grace by T Kingfisher

Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham

Paved With Good Intentions by Peter McLean

The Last Witch by CJ Cooke

Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Winter 2025-2026 to-Read List

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s prompt is:

Books On My Winter 2025-2026 to-Read List

I’ve split this into two groups.  Books that are on my shelves and books that are on my wishlist:

Books on my Shelves:

Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis

A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St James

Nightshade and Oak by Molly O’Neill

A Forest Darkly by AG Slatter

Temple Fall by RL Boyle

Books on my Wishlist:

The Storm by Rachel Hawkins

My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney

Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett

Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward

The Wolf and the Crown of Blood by Elizabeth May

Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set in Snowy Places 

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s prompt is:

Books Set in Snowy Places

1. The Shining by Stephen King

2. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

3. The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel

4. The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

5. The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy) by Katherine Arden

6. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

7. The Gathering by CJ Tudor

8. A Haunting in the Arctic by CJ Cooke

9. Shiver by Allie Reynolds

10. The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky

I have to say there are some excellent books above and I had quite a few more that I could have shared.  I highly recommend all of these.

What about you? Do you have any other books that you would add to this list?

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