As always, Top Ten Tuesday meme is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is: “Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read For The First Time In 2016” Pictures of the authors from Goodreads.
1. Sarah J. Maas
“You could rattle the stars,” she whispered. “You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
2. Tahereh Mafi
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
3. Michael Cunningham
“Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
4. Jojo Moyes
“Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
5. Anthony Doerr
“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
6. Ransom Riggs
“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
7. Patrick Ness
“Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go
8. Yuval Noah Harari
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
9. Pierce Brown
“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind – how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son10. Victoria Aveyard
“Rise, red as the dawn.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
Happy TTT! What great new authors did you discover this year?
May 16, 2020 at 2:27 pm
Ransom Riggs is on my list today as well, and I love Sarah J. Maas & Tahereh Mafi. Great list, and thanks for sharing! :)
Here’s my TTT
May 16, 2020 at 2:27 pm
Happy you discovered Riggs this year too! ^^ He’s such a great author!
May 16, 2020 at 2:27 pm
I really want to read a Patrick Ness book. I’ve been meaning to for a long time and it’s getting ridiculous that I haven’t yet :( Looks like you had a good reading year!
May 16, 2020 at 2:27 pm
I did! :) Few bad books but glad to have discovered so many good authors! Ness’ writing and thinking is different and beautiful I think. I think you’ll like his books 📚
May 16, 2020 at 2:27 pm
OMG, I love SJM and Tahereh Mafi. I’ve only read about two Patrick Ness books and I’d love to read more. His books are amazing.
May 16, 2020 at 4:34 pm
They’re just amazing authors!! :) Yeah I’ve only read Knife of Never Letting Go trilogy by him…hope to read more from him as well!
May 16, 2020 at 6:45 pm
Try A Monster Calls omg it’s so good I cried so hard 😂
May 16, 2020 at 9:58 pm
I will definitely! :) Been wanting to read it like for half year haha
May 16, 2020 at 2:27 pm
Oooo I’ve yet to read JoJo’s books! Maybe I will start now! My TTT is here: https://mybookinggreatblog.com/2016/12/06/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-new-to-me-authors-i-read-for-the-first-time-in-2016/
May 16, 2020 at 2:27 pm
I found Me Before You pretty deep :D maybe that’s just me though haha.
May 16, 2020 at 3:31 pm
On the wish list!
May 16, 2020 at 2:27 pm
Great list! I read Sarah J Maas for the first time too, though I only finished ACOTAR yesterday so I didn’t have time to add her to my list. I can’t remember if it was this year or the end of last year that I read Red Queen, but Victoria Aveyard is definitely a great pick.
My TTT
May 16, 2020 at 3:31 pm
Thank you! I haven’t even read ACOTAR yet!! Oh I can’t wait to read it. I’m now reading Empire of Storms…J.Maas is the queen 👑
December 6, 2016 at 10:05 am
Ransom Riggs is on my list today as well, and I love Sarah J. Maas & Tahereh Mafi. Great list, and thanks for sharing! :)
Here’s my TTT
December 6, 2016 at 10:15 pm
Happy you discovered Riggs this year too! ^^ He’s such a great author!
December 6, 2016 at 11:44 am
I really want to read a Patrick Ness book. I’ve been meaning to for a long time and it’s getting ridiculous that I haven’t yet :( Looks like you had a good reading year!
December 6, 2016 at 10:19 pm
I did! :) Few bad books but glad to have discovered so many good authors! Ness’ writing and thinking is different and beautiful I think. I think you’ll like his books 📚
December 6, 2016 at 1:13 pm
OMG, I love SJM and Tahereh Mafi. I’ve only read about two Patrick Ness books and I’d love to read more. His books are amazing.
December 6, 2016 at 10:22 pm
They’re just amazing authors!! :) Yeah I’ve only read Knife of Never Letting Go trilogy by him…hope to read more from him as well!
December 7, 2016 at 2:47 am
Try A Monster Calls omg it’s so good I cried so hard 😂
December 7, 2016 at 6:42 pm
I will definitely! :) Been wanting to read it like for half year haha
December 6, 2016 at 1:38 pm
Oooo I’ve yet to read JoJo’s books! Maybe I will start now! My TTT is here: https://mybookinggreatblog.com/2016/12/06/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-new-to-me-authors-i-read-for-the-first-time-in-2016/
December 6, 2016 at 10:41 pm
I found Me Before You pretty deep :D maybe that’s just me though haha.
December 6, 2016 at 10:42 pm
On the wish list!
December 6, 2016 at 2:20 pm
Great list! I read Sarah J Maas for the first time too, though I only finished ACOTAR yesterday so I didn’t have time to add her to my list. I can’t remember if it was this year or the end of last year that I read Red Queen, but Victoria Aveyard is definitely a great pick.
My TTT
December 6, 2016 at 9:54 pm
Thank you! I haven’t even read ACOTAR yet!! Oh I can’t wait to read it. I’m now reading Empire of Storms…J.Maas is the queen 👑
May 16, 2020 at 2:27 pm
Jojo Moyes is such a great author to have found! I love her novels. They always bring out emotions I wasn’t expecting.
My TTT.
May 16, 2020 at 3:31 pm
Yeah! I surprised myself by liking her books…usually I don’t like that genre 🙈
May 16, 2020 at 2:27 pm
I still have to pick up a bunch of these. But especially Pierce Brown. Great list. :)
May 16, 2020 at 2:27 pm
I thought I’d had it with dystopians but then I read Red Rising…very much recommend it! :)
May 16, 2020 at 2:27 pm
This is a great list! Here is a link to my TTT: https://coffeeandcatsblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-new-to-me-authors/
December 6, 2016 at 7:49 pm
Jojo Moyes is such a great author to have found! I love her novels. They always bring out emotions I wasn’t expecting.
My TTT.
December 6, 2016 at 9:59 pm
Yeah! I surprised myself by liking her books…usually I don’t like that genre 🙈
December 6, 2016 at 9:01 pm
I still have to pick up a bunch of these. But especially Pierce Brown. Great list. :)
December 6, 2016 at 10:03 pm
I thought I’d had it with dystopians but then I read Red Rising…very much recommend it! :)
December 6, 2016 at 9:34 pm
This is a great list! Here is a link to my TTT: https://coffeeandcatsblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-new-to-me-authors/
May 16, 2020 at 2:27 pm
Victoria Aveyard was on my list this week too! Glad to see you’ve read (and hopefully enjoyed) Sarah J Maas this year, she’s one of my favourite authors!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/top-ten-tuesday-86/
May 16, 2020 at 3:31 pm
Oh yes!! Sarah J.Maas is like my new all-time favorite author! At first I wasn’t so into Throne of Glass but now I’m like in love with Rowan. And Aelin is such a badass character :)
May 16, 2020 at 3:31 pm
Yeah they get so much better as they go along! Aelin is awesome :)
December 8, 2016 at 2:05 am
Victoria Aveyard was on my list this week too! Glad to see you’ve read (and hopefully enjoyed) Sarah J Maas this year, she’s one of my favourite authors!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/top-ten-tuesday-86/
December 8, 2016 at 8:07 pm
Oh yes!! Sarah J.Maas is like my new all-time favorite author! At first I wasn’t so into Throne of Glass but now I’m like in love with Rowan. And Aelin is such a badass character :)
December 9, 2016 at 9:18 pm
Yeah they get so much better as they go along! Aelin is awesome :)