New-to-me authors read in 2018

Ah, the TBR. We all have our huge to-be-read piles. I’ve always felt that anyone giving my books a chance has done so because they’re kind enough to pull a new-to-them author’s book out of their pile, and now I’m very aware of doing the same, when deciding my next read. Many of them on this list are not new authors, and come highly recommended by friends, so the qualifier is “new to me.” Warning: this strategy opens up worlds of beauty; it does not reduce the number of books to be read.

Here are my new-to-me authors in 2018: (Full books/novellas only, and those I did not help publish. Does not include new-to-me authors in anthologies, short stories online, fanfic, zines, comics anthologies. I have not been documenting those as precisely, ugh.)

Mia Hopkins

Sarah Wendell

Talia Hibbert

Charlotte Stein

Jackie Lau

Jasmine Guillory

Elizabeth Acevedo

Kate Clayborn

Hulyen

Cecil Wilde

Sandhya Menon

Katrina Jackson

Helen Hoang

C.B. Lee

Aisha Malik

Nyrae Dawn

Cat Sebastian

Angel C. Aquino

Nicola Davidson

Sherry Thomas

Ruby Lang

Elise Estrella

Lara Madrid

Chace Verity

Tiffany Reisz

Ibi Zoboi

Naima Simone

Therese Beharrie

Reese Ryan

Zoey Castile