LilMouse

January 26: New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2020 (If you didn’t read 10 new authors, that’s fine! Just do what you can.)

I didn't realize how much non fiction I listened to in 2020. I'll talk about the new authors who wrote fiction that I listened to in 2020.

1. Agatha Christie - never read a book by her before. I chose And then There Were None as my first and I liked it a lot. I will read more from her.
2. Truman Capote - I listened to In Cold Blood. It was good but also different from what I expected. I thought it'd be written as a straight facts book rather than telling a story that really happened through a fiction lens
3. Caren Lissner - I read Carrie Pilby
4. Shannon Hale - I read an ARC of Kind of a Big Deal
5. Chris Cander - I read The Weight of a Piano

BehrItAll

January 26: New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2020

1) Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel )
2) Shirley Jackson (We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House)
3) Sarah Beth Durst (The Queens of Renthia books)
4) Emily B. Martin (Woodwalker trilogy)
5) Grady Hendrix (My Best Friend's Exorcism)
6) Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Gods of Jade and Shadow )
7) Iain Reid (I'm Thinking of Ending Things)
8) Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe)
9) Chris Cander (The Weight of a Piano)
10) Dani Shapiro (Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love)

LilMouse

for you reading 10 new people.

Ankatje

Oh cool question!

1. Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
2. Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go)
3. Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Water Dancer)
4. Cheryl Strayed (Wild)
5. Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind)
6. Brit Bennett (The Vanishing Half)
7. VE Schwabb (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)
8. L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
9. Erin Morgenstern (The Night Circus)
10. Samantha Shannon (The Priory of the Orange Tree)

A few great books, a few middle-of-the-road and a few letdowns, but a whole lot of new authors. And there a lot more authors whose books I read for the first time last year - starting to read memoirs has really broadened my scope

LilMouse

I want to read this one. I liked the movie.

Anyone you'd read more stuff from?


Memoirs really is the big thing these days, huh?

BehrItAll

Grady Hendrix
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Emily St. John Mandel
Shirley Jackson

LilMouse

Hopefully I can listen to Station Elven this year.

BehrItAll

I did love that one. I hope you like it.

BehrItAll

I did love that one. I hope you like it.

LilMouse

I like dark books so I'd be surprised if I didn't.

BehrItAll

Ankatje

Yes definitely! The only authors I don't want to read more by are Kazuo Ishiguro, Erin Morgenstern and V.E. Schwabb. Maybe I'd read another Erin Morgenstern book, because I enjoyed the Night Circus (but I didn't love it). Kazuo Ishiguro is just not my cup of tea, didn't like that book and the V.E. Schwabb book was a real disappointment. I really liked or even loved all the other books!

LilMouse

I never read V.E. Schwabb so I can't speak about her writing style.

With Kazuo Ishiguro...I'll try to go into Never Let Me Go without expectations. I saw the movie years ago and liked it, so I'll just have to hope that gets me through.

Ankatje

If you liked the movie I think you will be fine. I hope you enjoy it!

LilMouse

Was your frustration that they didn't run away? That is the #1 issue I see people mention.