2015 New Author Challenge

This is my sixth year taking part in the New Author Challenge hosted by Literary Escapism.  As much as I have many favourite authors on my auto buy list I still love to discover new authors.  This is also great to discover both brand new and well known authors that I haven't got around to trying yet.

If you'd like to join me and take part in the challenge you can sign up here.

2010 - I tried 104 new authors
2011 - I tried 115 new authors
2012 - I tried 130 new authors
2013 - I tried 96 new authors
2014 - I tried 51 new authors
2014 - I tried 54 new authors

Last year I changed my focus from trying lots of new authors to trying to finish up some of the many, many series that I've already started. I really enjoyed catching up with books by some of my favourite authors so I'm going to do the same again this year. I do still love discovering new authors though so I'll keep my goal at 50 new (to me) authors in 2015.

I will update this post with a list of the new authors I try and include links to my reviews (see links to other participant's reviews here)

1. The Sleeper and the Spindle - Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell
2. Ascension - Caris Roane
3. Captive - A.J. Grainger
4. These Broken Stars - Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
5. A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab
6. The Fire Sermon - Francesca Haig
7. The Catalyst - Helena Coggan
8. Dragon Actually - G.A. Aiken
9. Vampire Seeker - Tim O'Rourke
10. Extreme Exposure - Pamela Clare
11. The Novice - Taran Matharu
12. Changing His Game - Megan Erickson
13. Marked - Sue Tingey
14. Heap House - Edward Carey
15. What Caroline Wants - Amanda Abbott
16. Rules of Seduction - Joya Ryan
17. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - Jesse Andrews
18. The Grendel Affair - Lisa Shearin
19. Asking for It - Lilah Pace
20. Saint Anything - Sarah Dessen
21. Double Cross - Carolyn Crane
22. The Great Zoo of China - Matthew Reilly
23. Smiler's Fair - Rebecca Levene
24. An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir
25. My Life as a White Trash Zombie - Diana Rowland
26. Anything but Broken - Joelle Knox
27. Girl from Above: Betrayal - Pippa DaCosta
28. Mechanica - Betsy Cornwell
29. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
30. The Last True Vampire - Kate Baxter
31. The Wanderers - Kate Ormand
32. One Night for Love - Mary Balogh
33. Fans of the Impossible Life - Kate Scelsa
34. Chosen - K.F. Breene
35. Kittens - Pet Friendly: Understanding and Caring for Your Pet - Claire Horton-Bussey
36. Paper Dandy's Horrorgami - Marc Hagan-Guirey
37. These Shallow Graves - Jennifer Donnelly
38. Star Trek Pop-Ups - Courtney Watson McCarthy
39. A Thousand Nights - E.K. Johnston
40. A Fistful of Evil - Rebecca Chastain
41. Ash & Bramble - Sarah Prineas
42. Asking for It - Louise O'Neill
43. The Martian - Andy Weir
44. Uprooted - Naomi Novik
45. Valentine - Heather Grothaus
46. Mog's Christmas Calamity - Judith Kerr
47. Dreamer's Pool - Juliet Marillier
48. In the Air Tonight - Lori Handeland
49. Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
50. Discount Armageddon - Seanan McGuire
51. Ecstasy Unbound - Setta Jay
52. Fortune's Pawn - Rachel Bach
53. Linesman - S.K. Dunstall
54. The Square Root of Summer - Harriet Reuter Hapgood (review coming soon)