Chat Between Chapters: New To Me Authors 2024-2025

For this discussion post, we are joining the Tell Me Something Tuesday challenge run by Jen at That’s What I’m Talking About. Here’s the topic for this week. New-to-me authors: who have you discovered in the past 12 months?

 

 Julie:

So this one is a loaded question because MOST authors are new to me, as a book blogger and book club girlie. I rarely read the same authors over and over (unless I am bingeing a series or catching up on my TBR). But, I can highlight some of my favorite reads over the past 12 months and the authors that brought them to me.

• The Unmaking of June Farrowby Adrienne Young – (read for book club) totally new to me and such a beautiful read. I want to read her again.
• Weywardby Emilia Hart – (read for book club) very much enjoyed the book and author’s writing, and actually am reading a second of her’s this month for book club
• Wicked Wish by Alex Gordon – new to me, read for a book tour and really enjoyed the pacing and plot, so read the second book as part of the next book tour as well.
• The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden – (read for book club) she was new to me but well known by others and now I have a lot of her books on my Libby holds
• Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver – omg this book with all the triggers is soo funny and a great audio. I enjoyed the author so much that I went to listen to book 2. I still need to get the final book. I don’t know why I read this. Someone must have recommended it because it came up on my Libby holds and I went for it and am so glad I did.
• What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1) by Isabel Ibanez – (read because of book club but didn’t make the meeting) very much enjoyed this duology – the pacing, the adventures, the characters. I’ll have to keep reading her stuff.
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow – (read because of a book club but didn’t make the meeting) I found this book very unique and enjoyed the author’s style weaving adventure and secrets throughout.

Ok that’s enough – these are the highlights of new books I enjoyed by new to me authors in the past year.

 

Lynn:

I tend to flit around between genres and books based on my mood. And when my Libby holds become available. Here’s very random list of new to me books\authors that I’ve really loved recently.

• LOVE AT FIRST BOOK by Jenn McKinley – makes me want to give up everything and move to Ireland. Lovely romance.
• THE JEWEL OF THE ISLE by Kerry Rea. HILARIOUS romantic comedy. HIL.AR.I.OUS.
• MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley. Original plot. Not as timey-whimey as expected. Excellent characters.
• EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE by Benjamin Stevenson. Amazing murder mystery series. I picked up the second one right away.
• THE WORST SHIP IN THE FLEET by Skyler Ramirez. OMG. This series is awesome. Action. Adventure. Humor. Pew Pew space battles. So much sarcasm. I’ve read through the first 4 books already.

It looks like everything else I’ve read in the past year by new authors wasn’t outstanding enough to remark upon!

 

What about you?

 

 

We are also linking up our discussion posts with the 2025 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight!

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