Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2023

Is it my imagination or are the days starting to stretch out a little bit again? It's still pitch dark on my morning runs but I don't feel that I am both driving to and home from work in the darkness! And this week's theme is a lovely one, a celebration of the books I have read in 2023 - which already seems a very long time ago and we have not yet finished January! - from authors I have not come across before. We all have those familiar favourite authors, don't we? Those writers who we just know we will feel welcome and comfortable and familiar with, even in a new book - and that is a wonderful thing! And alongside that, it is a joy to uncover a new author whom we might also fall in love with, possibly with a weighty backlist to enjoy, potentially with a future of more books to come. It is also a feature that I track on my reading spreadsheet - I am such a geek! - so I can easily share my full list of books by new-to-me authors, of which there were 22.

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Hope Santa Brings This Year

Anyway, this week's Top Ten list is, seasonally enough, books I wish Santa would leave for me... which is a little tricky: I do tend to treat myself to books far too often and my wife refuses to buy me any, arguing that I'll already have read them! Which is true, but somehow misses the point: someone browsing a bookshop and thinking of me is a gift in itself regardless of the book finally bought; and books that I may have electronically or in audiobook format I will still enjoy as a physical copy too!

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Was SO EXCITED to Get, but Still Havenโ€™t Read

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Previous Top Ten Tuesday Topics April 5:ย YA Books I Think Will Become… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Was SO EXCITED to Get, but Still Havenโ€™t Read

Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Winter 2020-2021 TBR

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. PREVIOUS TOP TEN TUESDAY TOPICS: October 27: Halloween FreebieNovember 10: Non-Bookish HobbiesNovember… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Winter 2020-2021 TBR

Top Five Saturday: Books On My Wishlist

PREVIOUS TOP FIVE SATURDAY LISTS: 8th August 2020: Underrated Books and Hidden Gems22nd August 2020: Young Adult Books29th August 2020: Detective Fiction12th September 2020: Science Fiction19th September 2020: Award Winners26th September 2020: Guilty Pleasure Reads Oh my goodness, life has become so busy and time pressured since work began again... barely a moment to keep… Continue reading Top Five Saturday: Books On My Wishlist