New to You Challenge January-December

[Johanna]

Way to go Adriana!!

[Kara]

Wow, Adriana--finished with over a third of the year to go!

[Adriana]

Thanks girls (:

[Nathan]

Adriana wrote: "I did 75. Challenge Complete! You can see my list here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7..."

Wow, great job!

[Erika]

61.Nicole Peeler- Tempest Rising****
62. Ellen Schreiber-Magic of the Moonlight*

[Kara]

68. Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go, ****
69. Caitlin Moran - How To Be A Woman, ****

[Nathan]

56. John Green (Will Grayson, Will Grayson)

[Lisa]

21. Jennifer Donnelly The Tea Rose

[Erika]

63.Sarah Zettel Dust Girl*
64.Sarah Healy Can I Get An Amen?****

[Johanna]

Updated till here! :)

[Kara]

70. Leigh Bardugo - Shadow and Bone, ****
71. Jo Walton - Among Others, ***

COMPLETED: 71/75

[Johanna]

Ooh you´re almost there Kara!

[Lisa]

#22 - Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice

Competed: 22/24

[Nathan]

58. Patrick Lane (The Bare Plum of Winter Rain)

[Katee]

Put me down for 20! A lot of the authors I've read this year have to been new to me. A benefit of picking books based on the covers, I guess. You can see this challenge and others at my corner.



The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness - ★★★★★
My Life As a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland - ★★★★
Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint - ★★★
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - ★★★
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder (also read the two sequels to this book) - ★★★★
Mona Lisa Awakening by Sunny (+ 2 sequels) - ★★★★
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest - ★★★★
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - ★★★★
The Dust of 100 Dogs by A.S. King - ★★
Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner - ★★★★
The King's Bastard by Rowena Cory Daniells - ★★★
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - ★★★★

COMPLETED: 12/20

[Johanna]

Added Katee and updated till here, welcome to the challenge Katee!

[Lisa]

#23 - Ildefonso Falcones - Cathedral of the Sea: A Novel

1/5 stars

Completed: 23/24

[Lilac]

Well done, only one more to go! :)

[Katee]

The Dust of 100 Dogs by A.S. King - ★★

Completed 9/20

[Lisa]

#24 - John Shors - Beneath a Marble Sky
3/5 stars

Challenge Complete - 24/24 new authors

[Crystal]

18. I Drink for a Reason by David Cross - 3/5. I would have scored the book 5/5 if it had ended on page 171. After that point, things just went downhill and boring.

[Nathan]

59. Miriam Toews (Swing Low)

That completes this challenge for me. :) I'll keep reading new authors, of course, but I won't keep track anymore.

[Johanna]

Two more completed the challenge, well done Trevor and Lisa!! What were your favourites of the new authors?

[Nathan]

Tough question!! My favorite new author book was The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. But I'd have to say my favorite new author was Cris Beam because I've actually looked up more works by her since I read her for the first time.

[Lisa]

I really liked a few of the new authors, but my favorite was Sharon Kay Penman. I'm reading my second Penman book right now and really enjoying it.

[Katee]

Update

Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner - ★★★★
The King's Bastard by Rowena Cory Daniells - ★★★
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - ★★★★
Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska by Miranda Weiss - ★★★★

COMPLETED: 13/20

[Erika]

65.Victoria Dahl Good Girls Don't***
66.Kiera Cass The Selection****

[Kara]

72. Chloe Caldwell - Legs Get Led Astray, ****
73. Jim Butcher - Storm Front, **
74. Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl, *****

Changing my goal to 100!

COMPLETED: 74/100

[Johanna]

Wow! That´s quite the goal Kara! Good luck :)

[Kara]

75. Mineko Iwasaki - Geisha of Gion, **
76. Kelly Cutrone - If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You, ***

COMPLETED: 76/100

[Sharon]

NEW TO ME: Almost done ...
1. Charlaine Harris
2. Kathryn Stockett
3. Alex Flinn
4. Ally Condie
5. Alice Ozma
6. Erin Morgenstern
7. Pittacus Lore
8. Susan Wittig Albert
9. Joanne Fluke
10. E.D. Baker
11. John Feinstein
12. Scott Hamilton
13. Cate Tiernan
14. Philip Pullman
15. Markus Zusak
16. Ally Carter
17. Lisa Mangum
18. Susanna Kaysen
19. Kristin Hannah
20. Jeanne DuPrau
21. Jenni James
22. Elizabeth Lynn Casey
23. Francine Pascal
24. Madelyn Alt
25. Carla Kelly
26. Noah Hawley
27. Ted Dekker
28. Nancy Atherton
29. Sarah Dessen
30. Dan Chaon
31. Elisabeth Naughton
32. Kami Garcia
33. Veronica Roth
34. Laura Esquivel
35. Aimee Carter
36. Patrick Ness
37. Seth Grahame-Smith
38. Jack M. Lyon
39. Ransom Riggs
40. Deborah Harkness
41. Heather Horrocks
42. S.R. Johannes
43. Stephanie Perkins
44. Sue Monk Kidd
45. Eloisa James
46. Julie Powell
47. April Lindner
48. Cassandra Clare
49. Melanie Jacobson

[Kara]

Congratulations, Theta!

[Johanna]

Feel free to do just that. I really want to read that as well!

[Kara]

77. Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
78. Lisa Tuttle - The Silver Bough
79. Terri Griffith - The Plugged-In Manager

COMPLETED: 79/100

[Crystal]

19. Follow the Model: Miss J's Guide to Unleashing Presence, Poise, and by J. Alexander 5/5

[Candiss]

I'm jumping in to this challenge very late in the game, but since I'm new I thought it would be good to get something going and to have something to post in my corner to give it life. I went through the books I've read this year and made a list of all the authors I read that were new to me and discovered I've read 28 new authors this year. I think I can manage another several before the end of the year, so I will list my challenge goal as 35.

So far, I've read these new-to-me authors in 2012:

1. Rudolfo Anaya - Bless Me, Ultima *****
2. Jonathan Carroll - Bones of the Moon **
3. Michael Moorcock - Behold the Man ***
4. Robert Silverberg - Dying Inside ****
5. Barbara Comyns - The Vet's Daughter *****
6. Douglas Clegg - Isis ****
7. J.L. Carr - A Month in the Country ****
8. Fritz Leiber - Conjure Wife ***
9. Kristin Cashore - Graceling ****
10. Penelope Fitzgerald - The Bookshop **
11. Helene Hanff - 84, Charing Cross Road *****
12. Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen *****
13. Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea ****
14. Muriel Barbery - The Elegance of the Hedgehog *****
15. Saladin Ahmed - Throne of the Crescent Moon ****
16. Andreas Eschbach - The Carpet Makers ***
17. Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea ****
18. Ira Levin - The Stepford Wives ****
19. Ian McEwan - Amsterdam ***
20. K.J. Bishop - The Etched City ****
21. Shane Jones - Light Boxes ****
22. Adolfo Bioy Casares - The Invention Of Morel & Other Stories ****
23. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from Underground ****
24. Dezső Kosztolányi - Skylark ****
25. Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank ****
26. Christopher Morley - Parnassus on Wheels ****
27. Adam Roberts - Yellow Blue Tibia ***
28. Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children ****

[Johanna]

Updated till here and added you Candiss, welcome to the challenge!

[Erika]

67. Tamora Pierce Alanna: The First Adventure**
68. Chloe Neill Biting Cold**
69.Susan Elizabeth Phillips The Great Escape**

[Kara]

80. Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
81. Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
82. Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs

COMPLETED: 82/100

[Lilac]

I'm going to update my new authors since finishing the challenge too. Here they are:

21. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
22. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
24. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
25. XVI by Julia Karr
26. Wither by Lauren DeStefano
27. Angel Evolution by David Estes
28. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
29. The Giver by Lois Lowry
30. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
31. Partials by Dan Wells
32. Blood Red Road by Moira Young
33. 1984 by George Orwell
34. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
35. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
36. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
37. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
38. Qeya by Jennifer Silverwood
39. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
40. Starters by Lissa Price
41. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
42. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

✔✔✔ Completed 42/20 ✔✔✔

[Crystal]

20. Heartsick by Chelsea Cain - 5/5
21. My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays that Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face by My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays that Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face - 5/5

[Kara]

83. Margot Morrell - Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer
84. Diana Gabaldon - Outlander
85. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

COMPLETED: 85/100

[Candiss]

29. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón ****

[Johanna]

Adriana: 75/75 completed
Ana: 10/20*
Ashley: 30/30 completed
Audrey: 7/25 ?
Brianna: 37/60
Candiss: 33/35*
Crystal: 21/25*
Erika: 80/75* Completed!
Helen: 35/52
James: /14 (Personal Challenge 51-100)?
Johanna: 20/20 completed
Kara: 100/100* completed!
Katee: 13/20*
Lilac: 42/20 completed
Lisa: 24/24 COMPLETED!!
Lori: 20/80*
Melissa: 30/30 completed
Nikki: 4/10
Rebecca: 2/12 (updates here)
RedB: 6/10 (Ann´s Corner)
Robyn: 3/25?
Sara: 50/50 completed
Sharon: 49/52* (Personal Challenge 101-200)
Tatum: 15/20
Theta: 45/30 Completed!
Trevor: 59/59 Completed!

[Candiss]

One more down:

The Devil's Alphabet by Daryl Gregory ****

That brings me to 30/35.

[Erika]

70.Scott Speer Immortal City***
71. Denise Hunter The Seaside Letters**
72. C.K. Kelly Martin Yesterday*
73. Clay Griffith The Greyfriar****
74. Coreene Callahan Fury of Fire*
75. Jennifer Probst The Marriage Bargain***

Complete!!! 75/75

[Kara]

86. Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit, *****
87. Karine Moe & Dianna Shandy - Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples, ****
88. Stephen Lundin - Fish!, *
89. Patrick Suskind - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, ****

COMPLETED: 89/100

[Johanna]

Wow nicely done Erika! That´s a massive amount!!

[Erika]

76. Dakota Cassidy Accidentally Dead*
77. H.P. Mallory -Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble*
78. Juliet Marillier -Shadowfell*
79. Kate Elliott - Cold Magic*
80. Theo Lawrence -Mystic City****

80/75

[Candiss]

31/35: Koji Suzuki - Ring ****