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New 2 U Authors 2023January, 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Level: Come What May
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New 2 U Authors Challenge 2023 - COMPLETEDDuration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Level: Devil May Care, 20+ new authors
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1. The Dinner - Herman Koch 1/1/23
2. The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak 1/3/23
3. Brownies and Broomsticks - Bailey Cates 1/5/23
4. The Blind Side - Michael Lewis 1/7/23
5. The Dark Winter - David Mark 1/8/23
6. You Don't Look Your Age...and Other Fairy Tales - Sheila Nevins 1/10/23
7. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle 1/13/23
8. Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays - Phoebe Robinson 1/14/23
9. Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler 1/16/23
10. The Witch of Painted Sorrows - M.J. Rose 1/19/23
11. The Last House on the Street - Diane Chamberlain 1/22/23
12. Killers of a Certain Age - Deanna Raybourn 1/24/23
13. The Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs 1/25/23
14. Solomon's Oak - Jo-Ann Mapson 1/27/23
15. Spare Change - Bette Lee Crosby 1/28/23
16. The Nanny - Gilly Macmillan 3/11/23
17. Angels Burning - Tawni O'Dell 3/19/23
18. The Stone Wall - Beverly Lewis 3/26/23
19. The Expats - Chris Pavone 4/3/23
20. Never Let Go - Elizabeth Goddard 4/24/23
21. To Sir, with Love - Lauren Layne 4/26/23
22. To Scotland with Love - Patience Griffin 5/11/23
23. Here Burns My Candle - Liz Curtis Higgs 6/17/23
24. Touch the Dark - Karen Chance 6/20/23
25. Invisible City - Julia Dahl 6/26/23
New 2U Authors Challenge 2023
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New 2 U Authors Challenge 2023
Devil May Care - 20+ authors
Progress: 6/20
1. Maggie Knox: All I Want for Christmas - 1/4
2. Elizabeth Kilcoyne: Wake the Bones - 1/8
3. Nicola Yoon: Everything, Everything - 1/14
4. Karen Rivers: You Are The Everything - 1/15
5. Dahlia Adler: Home Field Advantage - 1/22
6. Laura E. Weymouth: A Consuming Fire
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Devil May Care - 20+ authors
Progress: 6/20
1. Maggie Knox: All I Want for Christmas - 1/4
2. Elizabeth Kilcoyne: Wake the Bones - 1/8
3. Nicola Yoon: Everything, Everything - 1/14
4. Karen Rivers: You Are The Everything - 1/15
5. Dahlia Adler: Home Field Advantage - 1/22
6. Laura E. Weymouth: A Consuming Fire
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Come What May 18/20
1. Tall Men and Strangers Lizzie Lewis 1/1/23
2. Broom Mates Morgana Best 1/2/23
3. The Secret of Chestnut Hall Olivia Swift 1/2/23
4. His Werewolf's Baby Anya Byrne 1/3/23
5. Read to Death at the Lakeside Library Holly Danvers 1/4/23 (cause why not start at the end of the series lol)
6. Thanks for the Venom Nicole Sobon 1/6/23
7. Savage Hearts Mary E. Twomey 1/6/23
8. Macaron Murder Harper Lin 1/8/23
9. Rise of the Fallen Donya Lynne 1/11/23
10. A Murder in Paris Blake Pierce 1/13/23
11. Witch Happens A.M. King 1/15/23
12. Untamed Magic Alexis Calder 1/16/23
13. Turned Morgan Rice 1/18/23
14. Prowling their Mate Tamsin Baker 1/19/23
15. Inn Over Her Head Dixie Davis 1/20/23
16. Calico Confusion Katherine Hayton 1/21/23
17. Boxes in the Basement Kathi Daley 1/25/23
18. The Ivy Tree Carolyn Brown 1/25/23
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NBRC Challenge: New 2 U Authors 2023Level: devil may care♥
Completed: 21/20+ (completed)
January 7
1. Lukas Volger
2. 它似蜜
3. Cayla Gallagher
4. Morpho
5. Chugong♥
6. rarutori
7. Aloha Zachou
February 14
8. Suyoon Jin
9. Miyako Tsukahara
10. Han SuYeong
11. Joy Harjo
12. 스푼
13. Lysha
14. Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen
15. Melissa Range
16. Yemaro
17. Nabeshiki
18. Jooha Jin
19. Shalean Ghitis
20. Bo
21. Nanako Tsujimura
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For this challenge I will be doing Come What May! Just for a place to start I think I will set my goal at 10 new authors. Now that it is July I think I will change it to 30 new authors!
It's October! So time to go all out and see how many I can get!
35/10
1. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
2. Decorum at the Deathbed by Josh Malerman
3. Horns by Joe Hill
4. The Quarry Girls by Jess Lourey
5. The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
6. Don't Move by James S. Murray
7. The New Wife by Sue Watson
8. Local Girl Missing by Claire Douglas
9. The Hanging Tree by Irina Shapiro
10. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham (1 Star)
11. The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz (2 Stars)
12. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (1 Star)
13. The Book of Lost Things by (John Connolly
14. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
15. The Hook by Victoria Helen Stone
16. The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
17. Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
18. The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
19. Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
20. The Village by Caroline Mitchell
21. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
22. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
23. Circe by Madeline Miller
24. Ward D by Freida McFadden
25. Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
26. Intercepts by T.J. Payne
27. The Gift by Freida McFadden
28. Matilda by Roald Dahl
29. The Watchers by A.M. Shine
30. Ariadne by Jennifer Saint (2.5 stars)
31. The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn
32. The Troop by Nick Cutter
33. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
34. Paradise-1 David Wellington
35. The Turn of the Screw Henry James (1 star)
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Round one done (post 4), going again! (total for the year so far: 20)1. Mike Anderson - The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial
2. Claire North - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
3. Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy
4. Iris Murdoch - The Sea, the Sea
5. Chuck Norris - The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories
6. Sara Nisha Adams - The Reading List
7. Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley
8. James Thurber - The 13 Clocks
9. Michael Ruhlman - The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America
10. John Banville - April in Spain
11. Elodie Harper - The Wolf Den
12. James Leo Herlihy - Midnight Cowboy
13. Tijan - Enemies
14. Mary Westmacott - The Rose and the Yew Tree (first book read under Agatha Christie's pseudonym)
15. Sean Bloomfield - Adventure North
16. Elton John - Me
17. Graham Norton - A Keeper
18. Deanna Raybourn - Killers of a Certain Age
19. Jon Krakauer - Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
20. Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet
Elizabeth SofiaNew 2U Author's Challenge 2023
Goal Level: Devil May Care 20
As of 1/31/23: 3/20
1. Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff (read 11/12/23)
2. Sandpiper Cove by Irene Hannon (read 1/26-27/23)
3. If Fried Chicken Could Fly by Paige Shelton (read 1/30/23)
NEW 2 U AUTHORS 2023Duration: January 1st - December 31st
Level: Come what may
Progress: 29/?
January ~ 7 completed
A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy ~ 01/02
Dirty Love by Bethany Winters ~ 01/09
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides ~ 01/10
Doubletalk by Teralyn Mitchell ~ 01/17
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ~ 01/17
Return to Shelter Beach by Terence Gray ~ 01/18
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah ~ 01/22
February ~ 6 completed
Claimed by Lena Little ~~ 02/03
Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant ~ 02/06
Second Sight by Amanda Quick ~ 02/14
The Perfect Wife by Blake Pierce ~ 02/22
Driver's Obsession by Flora Ferrari ~ 02/24
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs ~ 02/28
March ~ 6 completed
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev ~ 03/06
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry ~ 03/13
Devoted & Deserted by Cami Checketts ~ 03/23
Christmas at Copper Mountain by Jane Porter ~ 03/23
Among the Living by Jordan Castillo Price ~ 03/25
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman ~ 03/30
April ~ 10 completed
The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles ~ 04/05
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan ~ 04/11
Sisters in Love by Melissa Foster ~ 04/12
Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken ~ 04/13
Broody Brit by Naima Simone ~ 04/15
The V Girl: a Coming of Age Story by Mya Robarts ~ 04/19
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews ~ 04/22
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus ~ 04/26
It's A Wonderful Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman ~ 04/27
Slade by Kade Boehme ~ 04/29
May ~ 6 completed
Danger Zone by Brooke Blaine ~ 05/10
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood ~ 05/10
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen ~ 05/12
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin ~ 05/19
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano ~ 05/21
Throttled by Lauren Asher ~ 05/26
June ~ 4 completed
Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn ~ 06/05
Frey by Melissa Wright ~ 06/10
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi ~ 06/11
Well Met by Jen DeLuca ~ 06/30
July ~
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman ~ 07/09
Sidetracked by R.L. Kenderson ~ 07/12
Nothing But Reading ChallengesNew 2U Authors Challenge 2023
Duration: 1/1/2023 - 12/31/2023
Progress: 14 out of 20+
Levels
Come What May = Let's see how many I read.
Fresh Face = 5
Adventurer = 10
Risk Taker = 15
Devil May Care = 20 or more!
Reoccurring every year, but start fresh from January to December.
(If you start after January, you may back-post from the beginning of the year.)
Rules
Read books by authors that are New 2 U (new to you).
• If an author writes under a pseudonym, you may use that, provided it is a different genre (or sub-genre, writes Historical Romance under one name and Paranormal Romance under another) and you have NOT read any of those books.
• Anthologies are always a wonderful way to try someone new, so as long as one of the stories has been written by a New 2 U author, they are permitted.
• Audiobooks are fine.
• Novellas are fine.
• You can set your goal now, or adjust as the year progresses.
• Feel free to make a special comment, if you found a real winner.
(★Stars★ or ♥hearts♥ indications welcome!)
January
1. Part of Your Nightmare by Vera Strange - *** - 1/5/2023 - 218 Pages
2. Bad Blood by L.A. Banks - **** - 1/7/2023 - 342 Pages
3. InvestiGators by John Patrick Green - **** - 1/9/2023 - 208 Pages
4. Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman - ***** - 1/15/2023 - 352 Pages
5. Passion on Park Avenue by Lauren Layne - **** - 1/15/2023 - 279 Pages
6. Surrender Bay by Denise Hunter - ** - 1/16/2023 - 298 Pages
7. The Mayor of Noobtown by Ryan Rimmel - **** - 1/20/2023 - 226 Pages
8. If Only It Were True by Marc Levy - ***** - 1/30/2023 - 216 Pages
February
9. Star Wars: Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brown - **** - 2/10/2023 - 160 Pages
10. The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree by Susan Wittig Albert - **** - 2/11/2023 - 290 Pages
11. Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath - ***** - 2/14/2023 - 384 Pages.
12. The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger - ** - 2/20/2023 - 157 Pages
13. The Deep by Rivers Solomon - **** - 2/20/2023 - 166 Pages
14. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni - ***** - 2/27/2023 - 448 Pages
New2U Author's Challenge 2023January 1 - December 31, 2023
Come What May = Let's see how many I read.
1. Elaine Murphy - I Told You This Would Happen
2. Sophie Hannah - The Couple at the Table
3. Janice Hallett - The Appeal
4. Gillian McAllister - Wrong Place Wrong Time
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Here's a question for everyone. I read a book by two authors, both of whom are new to me. Do I count them separately?
Round two done (post 63), going again! (total for the year so far: 40)1. Magda Szabó - The Door
2. Randy Travis - Forever and Ever, Amen: A Memoir of Music, Faith, and Braving the Storms of Life
3. Jane Mount - Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
4. Joe White - The Nox
5. Carole Matthews - The Chocolate Lovers' Club
6. Tomasz Jedrowski - Swimming in the Dark
7. Jane Johnson - The Sea Gate
8. Wilbur Smith - When the Lion Feeds
9. Jill Mansell - It Started with a Secret
10. Libby Page - The Island Home
11. James Tiptree Jr. - Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
12. Elizabeth Gilbert - City of Girls
13. Gene Wolfe - The Shadow of the Torturer
14. Christina Lauren - The Soulmate Equation
15. Walter M. Miller Jr. - A Canticle for Leibowitz
16. Cliff Richard - The Dreamer: An Autobiography
17. Sophie Mackintosh - The Water Cure
18. Neil Lancaster - The Night Watch
19. Christopher Fowler - Hot Water
20. Max Porter - Lanny
This sounds fun!NU2 Me Authors
Level: Devil May Care, 20+
30 of 20+ Completed!
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Nikki Erlick, The Measure2.
Elin Hilderbrand, Golden Girl3.
Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book4.
Ann Patchett, The Dutch House5.
Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt6.
Jon Steele, The Watchers7.
Emily St John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility8.
Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting9.
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing10.
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We11.
Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age12.
, Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us13.
, Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole14.
, Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons15
, Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk16
, Alix E Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January17
, Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places18
Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester19
Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night20
, Candice Millard, River of the Gods21
, Madeline Miller, Song of Achilles22
, Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait23
, Jon Acuff, All It Takes Is a Goal24
, Claire Lombardo25
, Gabrielle Lyon26
, Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D Perry27
, Hernan Diaz28
, Jenny Jackson29
, Jack Kornfield30
, Xinran Xue
Finished!Nothing But Reading Challenges
New 2U Authors Challenge 2023
Duration: 1/1/2023 - 12/31/2023
Progress: 20 out of 20+
Levels
Come What May = Let's see how many I read.
Fresh Face = 5
Adventurer = 10
Risk Taker = 15
Devil May Care = 20 or more!
Reoccurring every year, but start fresh from January to December.
(If you start after January, you may back-post from the beginning of the year.)
Rules
Read books by authors that are New 2 U (new to you).
• If an author writes under a pseudonym, you may use that, provided it is a different genre (or sub-genre, writes Historical Romance under one name and Paranormal Romance under another) and you have NOT read any of those books.
• Anthologies are always a wonderful way to try someone new, so as long as one of the stories has been written by a New 2 U author, they are permitted.
• Audiobooks are fine.
• Novellas are fine.
• You can set your goal now, or adjust as the year progresses.
• Feel free to make a special comment, if you found a real winner.
(★Stars★ or ♥hearts♥ indications welcome!)
January
1. Part of Your Nightmare by Vera Strange - *** - 1/5/2023 - 218 Pages
2. Bad Blood by L.A. Banks - **** - 1/7/2023 - 342 Pages
3. InvestiGators by John Patrick Green - **** - 1/9/2023 - 208 Pages
4. Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman - ***** - 1/15/2023 - 352 Pages
5. Passion on Park Avenue by Lauren Layne - **** - 1/15/2023 - 279 Pages
6. Surrender Bay by Denise Hunter - ** - 1/16/2023 - 298 Pages
7. The Mayor of Noobtown by Ryan Rimmel - **** - 1/20/2023 - 226 Pages
8. If Only It Were True by Marc Levy - ***** - 1/30/2023 - 216 Pages
February
9. Star Wars: Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brown - **** - 2/10/2023 - 160 Pages
10. The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree by Susan Wittig Albert - **** - 2/11/2023 - 290 Pages
11. Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath - ***** - 2/14/2023 - 384 Pages.
12. The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger - ** - 2/20/2023 - 157 Pages
13. The Deep by Rivers Solomon - **** - 2/20/2023 - 166 Pages
14. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni - ***** - 2/27/2023 - 448 Pages
March
15. Dead Man's Hand by James J. Butcher - ***** - 3/6/2023 - 384 Pages
16. Hilda and the Hidden People by Luke Pearson - ***** - 3/7/2023 - 216 Pages
17. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles - *** - 3/16/2023 - 377 Pages
18. Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster - ***** - 3/17/2023 - 400 Pages
19. The Witches of New York by Ami McKay - ***** - 3/23/2023 - 529 Pages
20. You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin - 3/28/2023 - 215 Pages
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New 2 You Challenge
🛰️🛸🌌Duration: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2023
Level: Devil May Care = 20+
Progress: 20/20
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🪐01 » Caroline Peckham& Susanne Valenti ➤ The Awakening ➤ 4/6/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✦
🛰️02 » Kate Canterbary ➤ In a Jam ➤ 6/7/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✦
🪐03 » Chloe Liese ➤ Two Wrongs Make a Right ➤ 6/6/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✦
🛰️04 » Lucy Score ➤ Rock Bottom Girl ➤ 4/29/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✦
🪐05 » Abby Jimenez ➤ The Friend Zone ➤ 6/1/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✦
🛰️06 » Jeanine Bennedict ➤ Midnight Kisses ➤ 5/24/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✧
🪐07 » Lilian T. James ➤ Meet Me Halfway ➤ 5/22/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦½
🛰️08 »Veronica Eden ➤ Iced Out ➤ 5/21/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✦
🪐09 » Pippa Grant & Lili Valente ➤ Hosed ➤ 5/3/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦½✧
🛰️10 » Suzanne Winslow ➤ Burned ➤ 5/17/2023 ➤ ✦✦½✧✧
🪐11 » Hannah Bonam-Young ➤ Next of Kin ➤ 5/16/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✦
🛰️12 » Heather K. Carson ➤ The Witch's Wolf ➤ 5/12/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✧
🪐13 » Judy Corry ➤ It Was Always You ➤ 5/8/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦½✧
🛰️14 » Kristen Ashley ➤ The Hookup ➤ 5/5/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✧
🪐15 » Grace Reilly ➤ First Down ➤ 4/20/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✦
🛰️16 » Kel Carpenter & Aurelia Jane ➤ Reject Me ➤ 2/15/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✦
🪐17 » Gina Chen ➤ Violet Made of Thorns ➤ 2/11/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✧
🛰️18 » Kathryn Ann Kingsley ➤ The Unseelie Prince ➤ 2/5/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✦
🪐19 » Jillian Graves ➤ Blood Moon ➤ 2/8/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✧
🛰️20 » Ashley Poston ➤ Geekerella ➤ 2/8/2023 ➤ ✦✦✦✦✧
Round three done (post 70), going again! (total for the year so far: 60)1. Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
2. Tom Watson - Metronome
3. J.L. Bourne - Day by Day Armageddon
4. Laird Barron - Lovecraft's Monsters
5. Justin Cronin - The Passage
6. Alex Callister - Winter Dark
7. Edward Rutherfurd - The Forest
8. Sally Rooney - Normal People
9. Juliet Marillier - Daughter of the Forest
10. C.J. Carey - Widowland
11. Pip Williams - The Dictionary of Lost Words
12. Natalie Zina Walschots - Hench
13. Tiffany Reisz - The Red
14. Viet Thanh Nguyen - The Sympathizer
15. Ruth Ware - The Death of Mrs. Westaway
16. Junot Díaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
17. Jennifer Bohnet - Villa of Second Chances
18. T.E. Kinsey - An Act of Foul Play
♥19. Annabel Streets - 52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time ♥
20. D.B.C. Pierre - Vernon God Little
Updated message #19 and finished with 20 new authors.
I feel like I read a lot of new authors, but they're only new for the first book! So, 20 to start but I'd like to try and read a few new authors each month. And, since I'm late to the party, I'll only start using author's I've read this month. 1. Spring of the Wolf by Iris Foxglove (♥♥♥)
2. Galen by Jaclyn Osborn
3. Alpha's Rejection by Blake R Wolfe
4. Leave It All by April Kelley
5. Loki and His Master by Rhys Lawless (-_-)
6. Hunt the Wood by Anna Fury (♥♥♥)
7. Dealer of Secrets by Davidson King
8. Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick
9. Alpha Dragon's Tiger by Hawke Oakley
10. Extraordinary Insects: The Fabulous, Indispensable Creatures Who Run Our World by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson (meh)
11. His Fae Lord by Aramis Jordan
12. Tuyo by Rachel Neumeier
13. Devil's Dance by Garrett Leigh
14. Famous Crimes the World Forgot: Ten Vintage True Crime Stories Rescued from Obscurity by Jason Morrow
15. Murder at Pirate's Cove by Josh Lanyon
16. His Mafia Prince by Leo Rivers
17. Brutal by Morticia Knight
18. Artifact by Joshua James (♥♥)
19. Handy Man by CJ Matthewson
20. Infamous Heart by Ryder O'Malley (♥)
21. Alpha's Kiss by Shannon West (♥)
22. Scepters & Scrolls by SR Meadows (meh)
23. Team's Omega by Lacey Daize
24. Bring the Fire by Zarah Detand (♥♥)
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New 2U Authors Challenge 2023Current Level: Fresh Face = 5
Progress: 0/5
Book Choices:
1. Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
2. Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
3. The Fisherman by John Langan
4. Night Film by Marisha Pessl
5. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
If I get through these five I'll move onto another level
New 2U Authors Challenge 2023Total: 62
Pt. 2
Pt. 1: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
April: 15
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May: 17
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Late joining after a terrible reading slump, but have read some great new authors so far in 2023!New2U Authors Challenge
01 January - 31 December 2023
Level: Devil May Care = 20 or more!
READ: 34/20+
Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger 4/1/23
Cover Story by Susan Rigetti 4/24/2023
The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti 4/23/2023
Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum 4/28/23
The Book of Virtue by Ken Bruen 4/30/23
A Sincere Warning About the Entity in Your Home by Jason Arnopp 5/5/23
The Long Weekend by Gilly Macmillan 5/20/23
Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild 5/21/23
Murder at the Mousetrap by Helena Marchmont 5/23/23
Makeup & Murder by Stephanie Damore 6/4/2023
Rest in Pizza by Patti Benning 6/4/2023
The Kensington Kidnap by Katie Gayle 6/6/23
A Pizza the Action by Gretchen Allen 6/9/23
Undone by Blake Pierce 6/14/23
Open House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell 6/17/23
One By One by Freida McFadden 6/23/23
55 slightly sinister stories by Racha Mourtada 6/23/23
Lady Stuff: Secrets to Being a Woman by Loryn Brantz 6/24/23
The Collective by Alison Gaylin 6/29/23
Death and Croissants by Ian Moore 7/5/23
Catch of the Day: A Newfound Lake Cozy Mystery by Virginia K. Bennett 7/11/23
Don't Read This or You Might Die by Wendy Dalrymple 7/11/23
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill 7/16/23
They: A Sequence of Unease by Kay Dick 7/28/23
Uzumaki by Junji Ito 7/29/23
Murder on the Caribbean - A Riveting Mystery Suspense Novel by Bryan Shortle 7/30/23
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam 8/13/23
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth 8/17/23
White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi 8/27/23
That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye 8/30/23
Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca 8/31/23
Rivalry Gone Wrong by L.C. Turner 9/9/23
Poison in the Pastries by Susan Harper 9/10/23
By Book or By Crook Eva Gates 9/12/23
Challenge completed 6/14/23 with All the Truth That's In Me by Julie Berry
I'm going to try from June-December 2023. I am working on the "1001 Books you must read" list so I'm going to try for 20 new authors for the rest of the year :)✅1. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin
✅2. Reads Well With Others
✅3. Katherine Bolger Hyde: Arsenic with Austen
✅4. Elizabeth O'Roark: No One But Us
Round four done (post 74), going again! (total for the year so far: 80)1. Gillian McAllister - How to Disappear
2. Mick Wall - Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica
3. Jasper T. Scott - From Beyond
♥4. K.W. Glennie - Desert of Southeast Arabia (totally biased here, but all the hearts for my grandfather, lol) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
5. Hugh Bonneville - Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru
6. James Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small
7. Brian Clegg - Ten Short Lessons in Time Travel
8. Sam Knight - The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
9. Graham Allcott - How To Be A Productivity Ninja
10. Carian Cole - Don't Kiss the Bride
11. Thich Nhat Hanh - Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
12. Conn Iggulden - The Gates of Athens
13. Laurie R. King - The Beekeeper's Apprentice
14. Ranulph Fiennes - Shackleton: A Biography
15. Ryū Murakami - In the Miso Soup
♥16. Karen Kirton - Great People, Great Business: Your HR handbook for creating a business that’s ready to scale and grow ♥ (also no bias there at all! ;) )
17. Michael Robotham - Suspect
18. Frank Muir - Eye for an Eye
19. Peter J. Bentley - 10 Short Lessons in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
20. Jaime Castle - Black Talon
I have made it past 20+ already! am still going strong
New 2U Authors 2023Devil May Care
1 Abby Jimenez The Friend Zone
2 Victoria Aveyard Red Queen
3 Joanne M. Harris The Gospel of Loki
4 Benjamin Alire Sáenz Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
5 Adam Kay This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
6 Steven D. Levitt Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
7 Richard Yates Revolutionary Road
8 Ruth Ware The Woman in Cabin 10
9 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
10 Laura Dave The Last Thing He Told Me
11 Colleen Hoover Verity
12 Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
13 Neil Gaiman Norse Mythology
14 Jennette McCurdy I'm Glad My Mom Died
15 Axie Oh The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
16 Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
17 Delia Owens Where the Crawdads Sing
18 David Sedaris Calypso
19 Elissa R. Sloan
20 Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles
Completed!
January 01 - December 31, 2023
Devil May Care = 20 or more!
Progress: 22/20
1. Seth Grahame-Smith - How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills 🍇🍇🍇🍇 1/14/23
2. Andrew J. Morgan - Noah's Ark 🍇🍇 1/25/23
3. April Henry - Two Truths and a Lie 🍇🍇🍇 1/27/23
4. Isaac Asimov - I, Robot 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇 2/3/23
5. Lamar Giles - The Getaway 🍇🍇🍇🍇 2/4/23
6. Alex Finlay - The Night Shift 🍇🍇🍇🍇 2/12/23
7. Darcy Coates - The Whispering Dead 🍇🍇🍇 2/20/23
8. Adrian McKinty - The Island 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇 2/25/23
9. Erin Bowman - Contagion 🍇🍇🍇 3/5/23
10. Adam Cesare - Clown in a Cornfield 🍇🍇🍇 3/15/23
11. Jennette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mom Died 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇 4/2/23
12. Natasha Rhodes - Final Destination #1: Dead Reckoning 🍇🍇🍇 4/13/23
13. Benjamin Stevenson - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇 4/16/23
14. Lisa Unger - Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six 🍇🍇🍇 5/5/23
15. Craig DiLouie - Episode Thirteen 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇 5/15/23
16. William H. Armstrong - Sounder 🍇🍇🍇 6/6/23
17. S.A. Chakraborty - The City of Brass 🍇🍇🍇 6/8/23
18. David Sakmyster - Jurassic Dead 🍇🍇 6/8/23
19. The Library Book - Susan Orlean 🍇🍇🍇 7/15/23
20. Howl’s Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones 🍇🍇🍇 7/19/23
21. Chocolate Raspberry Magic - Tena Stetler 🍇🍇🍇 7/20/23
22. On the Line - Fern Michaels 🍇🍇🍇 7/21/23
Round five done (post 83), going again! (total for the year so far: 100)1. Karen Swan - The Last Summer
2. Erica James - Coming Home to Island House
3. Piers Anthony - On a Pale Horse
4. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
5. Lucy Diamond - One Night in Italy
6. Frieda Fordham - An Introduction to Jung's Psychology
7. Peter Benchley - Jaws
8. Ali Hazelwood - The Love Hypothesis
9. Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars
10. Stephen Reynolds - Just Off For A Walk
11. Tamsyn Muir - Gideon the Ninth
12. Michael Cunningham - A Home at the End of the World
13. Kate Manning - My Notorious Life
14. Benjamin Stevenson - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
15. Portia MacIntosh - Your Place or Mine?
16. Paul Gallico - Mrs Harris Goes to Paris & Mrs Harris Goes to New York
17. Kerri Maniscalco - Kingdom of the Wicked
18. Shelby Van Pelt - Remarkably Bright Creatures
19. Alison Weir - Innocent Traitor
20. Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Well, I discovered this challenge really late in the year, but I would really love to share the books that I've read so far this year from some really good writers and storytellers that are new to me. Level: Devil May Care - 37/50 so far
1. Joshua Moehling***
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...2. Blake Pierce****
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...3. Debra Webb****
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...4. Barbara Nickless*****
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...5. Lucy Connelly****
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...6. Joe Lansdale****
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...7. Bianna Labruskes****
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...8. Kerry Wilkinson****
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...9. Michelle Gagnon****
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...10. Ann Cleeves****
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...11, James Byrne*****
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...12, S.A. Cosby*****
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...13. Shannon Hollinger*****
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...14. Bill Schweigart****
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...15. Matt Goldman***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...16. Kathleen Donnelly***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...17. K.L. Murphy****
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...18. Nick Pirog****
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...19. Mary Doria Russell****
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...20. Charlotte Duckworth**
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...21. D.S. Butler***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...22. Mary Ann Miller***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...23. Lloyd Richards****
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...24. Sally Hepworth***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...25. Robert Bailey***
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...26.
Jennett Meagan*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...27. Melinda Woodhall***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...28. M.L. Stedman***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...29. Michelle Cruz***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...30. Sulari Gentill***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...31. Katy Brent***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...32. Alice Hoffman***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...33. Gillian McAlister**
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...34. Kelly Ford**
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... 35. Tracy Carter***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...36. Ken Jaworowsky***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...37. Dallas B Coffield III***
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...So far, I've discovered 37 new authors to me. I've enjoyed many of these authors work so much, that I have already added some of their other work onto my to-read list. After a quick look at my to-read list, I feel like most of the rest of the year will include many of my fave authors so I probably won't be adding a lot more new authors, but rather delving more into the ones that I have discovered. I'm going to set my goal at discovering 50 new authors.
Edit: Sept 4th
I just wanted to add a co
38. Faith Gardner****
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New 2 U Authors 2023Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Level: Devil May Care
Read: 20/20+
1 Alex Michaelides
❤️ 01/02/23 2 Robert Bailey
01/30/233 Edgar Allen Poe
02/4/234 Mary Ellen Taylor
03/18/235 Jeff Garvin
❤️ 03/29/236 Jennifer Hunter
❤️ 04/09/237 WalterMarks
04/13/238 Allen Eskens
❤️ 04/26/239 Rob Kaufman
❤️ 05/17/2310 Catherine Ryan Hyde
❤️ 05/24/2311 Freida McFadden
06/02/2312 Charles Belfoure
❤️ 07/07/2313 Lucinda Berry
07/09/2314 John Marrs
❤️ 07/14/2315 Benjamin Smith
07/20/2316 Angel van Atta
❤️ 08/01/2317 Alice Feeney
❤️ 08/02/2318 S E Green
❤️ 08/02/2319 Joe Simple
08/04/2320 JD Barker
07/14/23
Round six done (post 86), going again! (total for the year so far: 120)1. Cheryl Strayed - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
2. Alan Rickman - Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
3. John Sweeney - Elephant Moon
4. Josie Silver - One Day in December
5. Claire Tomalin - Charles Dickens: A Life
6. Judy Leigh - The Golden Girls' Getaway
7. Toni Morrison - Beloved
8. Stanley Tucci - Taste: My Life through Food
9. Julie Andrews Edwards - Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
10. Richard Shepherd - Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
11. Richard K. Morgan - The Steel Remains
12. Neil Alexander - The Vanishing of Margaret Small
13. Lani Lynn Vale - Mess Me Up
14. Jana Deleon - Trouble in Mudbug
15. Liz Flanagan - Dragon Daughter
16. Jess Kidd - Things in Jars
17. Cressida McLaughlin - The Cornish Cream Tea Bookshop
18. Sean Lusk - The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
19. Barbara Davis - The Echo of Old Books
20. Benjamin Alire Sáenz - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
★good★★amazing
Round 5
20/20
★★1 Miya Kazuki: Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 1 Volume 1 14/7
2 Cali Mann: Fanged at First Sight 18/7
★3 Holly Hepburn: Starting Over 23/7
★★4 Terry Goodkind: Debt of Bones 25/7
★5 Judy Jong: Cut Time, Tome 1: Premières mpressions 1/8
6 Roger Hargreaves: Mr. Bump 4/8
★7 K.J. Charles: The Smuggler and the Warlord 5/8
★8 Ben Brooks: Stories for Kids Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing People Who Stood Up and Stood Out 5/8
9 Sodam Ji: 주인공들의 아이로 태어났다 1 Juingongdeul-eui Airo Taeeonassda 1 6/8
★★10 Lee Bacon: Interview with the Robot 8/8
★11 Ryan Rimmel: Deepwater Dungeon 12/8
12 Elena Bryce: How to Flunk Magic 12/8
13 Sienna Mercer: Switched 14/8
★14 Jenna Levine: My Roommate Is a Vampire 29/8
15 Ravens Dagger: Dead Tired I 30/8
★★16 Exterminatus: The Stars Have Eyes 31/8
17 JK ROWLING: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 31/8
★18 Paul Magrs: Baker's End - The King of Cats 3/9
19 Charmaine Ross: Xzion 4/9
★20 Kate Davies: The Incredible Hotel 15/9
Round 6
20/20
1 Emily L. Nash: Just a Few Bumps 22/9
★★2 Sōsuke Natsukawa: The Cat Who Saved Books 23/9
★★3 Stacey McNeill: Fox Under The Moon 23/9
★★4 Salva Rubio: The Librarian of Auschwitz: The Graphic Novel 2/10
5 Iasmin Omar Ata: Nayra and the Djinn 2/10
★6 Laura Terry: Graveyard Shakes: A Graphic Novel 2/10
★7 Mac Smith: Scurry 4/10
8 Mark Walden: H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education 4/10
9 Ellen T. Crenshaw: Stacey's Mistake: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #14) 7/10
10 Christine Pauls: Love For Granted 7/10
11 KrazeKode: The First Law of Cultivation 15/10
12 Anya Enright: Owls Can Dance 18/10]
★13 CasualFarmer: Beware of Chicken 26/10
★14 Chris Grine: Secrets of Camp Whatever Vol. 1 25/10
15 L.A. Drake: THE TEACHER ATE MY HOMEWORK 26/10
★16 Jane Hinchey: All in Vein: A Paranormal Cozy Mystery Short Story 30/10
17 Tony Bertauski: Expectations: A True Adoption Story 5/11
★18 Zira Nauryzbai: Batu and the Search for the Golden Cup 8/11
★19 Andrzej Sapkowski: The Last Wish 12/11
★20 Shalini Boland: A Shirtful of Frogs 13/11
Round 7
20/20
1 John Hennessy: Dawn of the New Breed 14/11
2 Sandi Mann: Paying it Forward: How One Cup of Coffee Could Change the World 21/11
★3 Charlie N. Holmberg: The Hanging City 23/11
★★4 Varsha Bajaj: Thirst 29/11
5 Cora Seton: The Cowboy's E-Mail Order Bride 30/11
6 Ophelia Sexton: Hard Landing 2/12
★7 Zaifyr: All the Dust that Falls: An Isekai LitRPG Adventure 3/12
8 R.G. de Rouen: Mother to Elephants: The Story of Daphne Sheldrick 3/12
★9 Jonathan Brooks: Christmas Core 4/12
★10 Z. Xolton: Blood of Midgard: A Dark Fantasy Collection 7/12
★11 Eric Ugland: One More Last Time 12/12
12 Tessa Bailey: Same Time Next Year 13/12
★13 Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 13/12
★★14 N.D. Stevenson: Nimona 14/12
15 A. Lee Martinez: Monsterkontrolle: die Schonzeit Für Mutanten Ist Vorbei! 15/12
★16 Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Little Princess 16/12
★★17 Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins 17/12
18 Bill Bryson: The Secret History of Christmas 18/12
19 Quinn Blackbird: Dark Fae Extinction 1 18/12
★★20 Kate Quinn: Signal Moon: A Short Story 19/12
Round 8
5/20
1 Uvi Poznansky: Twisted 21/12
★★2 C.C. Brower: When the Cities Died, I Danced 24/12
★3 Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey 25/12
4 Xander Boyce: Advent 31/12
5 Nic Saint: Once Upon a Spy 31/12
Round seven done (post 91), going again! (total for the year so far: 140)1. Griff Hosker - Lord Edward's Archer
2. Mary Jane Staples - Down Lambeth Way
3. Abbi Glines - Fallen Too Far
4. Mike Lunnon-Wood - Dark Rose
5. Elizabeth Edmondson - The Villa in Italy
6. Mike Bockoven - FantasticLand
7. Max Brooks - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
8. Daniel Wallace - The Bounty Hunter Code: From the Files of Boba Fett
9. Amanda Prowse - Perfect Daughter
10. Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
11. Betty Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
12. Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
13. Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory
14. Anne Conley - Falling for Heaven
15. MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Unwed
♥16. Frank Schätzing - The Swarm♥
17. Pam Howes - The Lost Daughter of Liverpool
18. Mariana Zapata - Under Locke
19. C.K. McDonnell - The Stranger Times
20. Theodore Sturgeon - More Than Human
Round eight done (post 92), going again! (total for the year so far: 160)1. Harper Bliss - No Strings Attached
2. Alice Slater - Death of a Bookseller
3. Tom Phelan - Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told
4. Kate Saunders - Beswitched
5. Françoise Sagan - Bonjour tristesse
6. Jonathan Van Ness - Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
7. Sophie Irwin - A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
8. H. Beam Piper - Little Fuzzy
9. Freya Sampson - The Girl on the 88 Bus
♥ 10. Ian Nathan - Anything You Can Imagine ♥
11. Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
12. Peter Benjaminson - The Story Of Motown
♥ 13. R.F. Kuang - The Poppy War ♥
14. Autumn Reed - Phoenix
15. Michael R. Cole - The Beast of Devil’s Rock
16. Brendan Slocumb - The Violin Conspiracy
17. Zen Cho - The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
♥ 18. Henry Fielding - The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ♥
19. Roberto Bolaño - 2666
20. Howard Paar - Top Rankin': A Punk/Ska Noir Novel
Can I manage one more round? (total for the year so far: 180)1. Patrick deWitt - Undermajordomo Minor
2. Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano
3. Emma Dean - Vaudeville Runaway
4. Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis
5. Evie Woods - The Lost Bookshop
6. William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
7. Amos Oz - A Tale of Love and Darkness
8. Martin Popoff - Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers: The Rise of Motörhead
9. Sebastian Barry - Old God's Time
10. Mel Starr - The Unquiet Bones
11. Johnny Cash - Cash
12. Mitch Albom - The Five People You Meet in Heaven
13. Ashley Poston - Bookish and the Beast
14. Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek
15. Martin Amis - Money
16. Terry Brooks - The Sword of Shannara
17. Paul Cornell - London Falling
18. Joanne Harris - Chocolat
19. Craig Alanson - Columbus Day
20. Anna Burns - Milkman
And done! 200 new authors this year!!And now I really need to start reading my neglected books-in-series instead, lol.
FINISHED!READ: 34/20+
Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger 4/1/23
Cover Story by Susan Rigetti 4/24/2023
The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti 4/23/2023
Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum 4/28/23
The Book of Virtue by Ken Bruen 4/30/23
A Sincere Warning About the Entity in Your Home by Jason Arnopp 5/5/23
The Long Weekend by Gilly Macmillan 5/20/23
Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild 5/21/23
Murder at the Mousetrap by Helena Marchmont 5/23/23
Makeup & Murder by Stephanie Damore 6/4/2023
Rest in Pizza by Patti Benning 6/4/2023
The Kensington Kidnap by Katie Gayle 6/6/23
A Pizza the Action by Gretchen Allen 6/9/23
Undone by Blake Pierce 6/14/23
Open House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell 6/17/23
One By One by Freida McFadden 6/23/23
55 slightly sinister stories by Racha Mourtada 6/23/23
Lady Stuff: Secrets to Being a Woman by Loryn Brantz 6/24/23
The Collective by Alison Gaylin 6/29/23
Death and Croissants by Ian Moore 7/5/23
Catch of the Day: A Newfound Lake Cozy Mystery by Virginia K. Bennett 7/11/23
Don't Read This or You Might Die by Wendy Dalrymple 7/11/23
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill 7/16/23
They: A Sequence of Unease by Kay Dick 7/28/23
Uzumaki by Junji Ito 7/29/23
Murder on the Caribbean - A Riveting Mystery Suspense Novel by Bryan Shortle 7/30/23
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam 8/13/23
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth 8/17/23
White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi 8/27/23
That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye 8/30/23
Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca 8/31/23
Rivalry Gone Wrong by L.C. Turner 9/9/23
Poison in the Pastries by Susan Harper 9/10/23
By Book or By Crook Eva Gates 9/12/23
FinishedNew 2 U Authors 2023
Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Level: Devil May Care
Read: 23/20+
1. After Auschwitz by Eva Schloss, 03/29/23 ****
2. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, 04/03/23 *****
3. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, 05/16/23 ***
4. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier,05/26/23 *****
5. The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow,06/03/23 ****
6. The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach by Pam Jenoff, 06/13/23 ***
7. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, 06/26/23 ****
8. Count Luna by Alexander Lernet-Holenia, 06/30/23 ****
9. The Marriage Bargain by Jennifer Probst 07/09/23 ***
10. Plainsong by Kent Haruf, 07/16/23 ****
11. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, 08/02/23 ***
12. Monsters by Emerald Fennell, 08/09/23 ***
13. Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? by Eleanor Updale, 08/09/23 ***
14. The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan, 08/28/23 ****
15. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, 08/31/23 ****
16. Yours Until Dawn by Teresa Medeiros, 09/18/23 ***
17. Dear Child by Romy Hausmann, 09/24/23 ****
18. Leo by Mia Sheridan, 10/05/23 ***
19. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West 11/30/23 ****
20. Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell, 12/20/23 **
21. It Always Snows on Mistletoe Square: treat yourself to the most uplifting, escapist, festive romance of 2023! by Ali McNamara, 12/17/23 ****
22 A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig, 12/22/23 ****
23. Skipping Christmas by John Grisham 12/30/23 ***
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01 January - 31 December 2023
Devil May Care = 20 or more!
01 - Stephenie Meyer - 01/04/2023
02 - Holly Black - 01/07/2023
03 - Rachel Hawkins - 01.07.2023
04 - Verna Aardema - 01.08.2023
05 - Relentless Aaron - 01.09.2023
06 - Lani Aames - 01.09.2023
07 - David Aaron - 01.10.2023
08 - Amélie Wen Zhao - 01.12.2023
09 - Kaylie Smith - 01.13.2023
10 - Laura Quinn - 01.14.2023
11 - Jenna Evans Welch 01.15.2023
12 - Rose Kent 01.16.2023
13 - Lilian Bell 01.18.2023
14 - Bonnie Dee 01.18.2023
15 - Elizabeth Aaron 01.19.2023
16. Alex J. Cavanaugh 01.19.2023
17. Ralph Moody 01.19.2023
18. Jenna St. James 01.20.2023
20.Carla Kelly 01.19.2023
21.Brad Barkley 01.21.2023
22.Gabrielle Zevin 01.22.2023
23. Nevil Shute 01.23.2023