Top Ten Tuesday is a book blog meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week’s prompt is New To Me Authors I Read In 2018. 2018 was the year I started blogging (!!!!), and I was really introduced to a lot of popular hyped authors I’d never heard of, as well as just reading fabulous books by new authors, so I just had to share my list!!
1. Jenny Han: Amazing author of TATBILB, aka my favorite contemporary ever!!
2. Sarah J Maas: Everyone knows her, you love her or you hate her, and I’m definitely in the former!
3. Leigh Bardugo: SIX OF CROWS SIX OF CROWS SIX OF CROWS SIXOFCROWSSIXOFCROWS
4. Morgan Matson: I know, right? New? What rock did I live under?
5. Becky Albertalii: Simon ❤ ❤
6. Rainbow Rowell: Clearly it was a very large rock.
7. Kasie West: And yet, despite the rock, I somehow read 6 of her books!
8. Lani Taylor: Loved DOSAB, still gotta start on Strange the Dreamer!!
9. Jenna Evans Walsh: Is now one of my favorite contemporary authors also did I mention food?
10. Jenn Bennett: Has some fantastic summer contemporaries!
Well. As you can see, I was certainly living under a HUMONGOUS rock to have never heard of those authors before 2018!! This just goes to show how wonderful it is to blog, because I can’t imagine never having heard of them now!!
Let’s Chat
Who are some of your favorite new 2018 authors? Were any of these authors new to you too? I’d love to chat in the comments below 🙂
I agree about Jenna Evans Welch- I loved Love & Gelato! Rainbow Rowell as well, although all of thee authors really are pretty awesome, judging from all the blogger love I see for them!
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❤️❤️they’re all fantastic
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Oh wow! I can see SO many authors on your list that I adore. Becky Albertalli, Kasie West and Morgan Matson are 3 of my auto-buy authors. What a reading year you had!
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Haha yeah this year was my year for reading all the popular authors! Happy reading 🙂
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Hey! I was hanging out under the rock with you! It was large enough for both of us, apparently. Laini Taylor, Rainbow Rowell, and SJM were all hiding somewhere that wasn’t under the rock for me. LOL this week’s TTT was more like an embarrassing confession than anything else. I was going to say I still haven’t read Leigh Bardugo, but that’s not true. I read one or two of her short stories last year.
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Haha glad I wasn’t alone. Happy reading 🙂
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I know that rock haha. But we can’t always be on top of everything and at least you have found them now. 😉
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Haha yeah so glad I finally read them 🙂
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Yes, Jenny Han is an amazing storyteller!
This is my Top Ten Tuesday post.
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Love her books so much ❤ happy reading!
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Ah yay, I love Leigh Bardugo, Sarah J Maas and Laini Taylor, I’m so glad you found their books last year. And yay for starting blogging, congrats on getting through your first year 🙂
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/top-ten-tuesday-194/
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Yee love their books ❤ Happy reading 😀
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Thank you 🙂
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I read Leigh Bardugo for the first time this year as well! Apparently I also live under a rock. I’m horrible at keeping up with new releases. I’d like to read some of Jenny Han’s work as well as Sarah J Maas. Here is my Top Ten Tuesday.
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Haha glad I’m not alone!
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All these are amazing authors!! Love and Gelato was one of my favorite books of 2018. Jenny Han and Rainbow Rowell are awesome, too! I still need to read some of Jenn Bennet and Morgan Matson’s books.
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Love those authors ❤
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What an awesome list this week! Sarah J. Maas, Jenny Han, Becky Albertalli and Kasie West made my list this week too! We definitely seem to have very similar choice in books and authors!
My TTT!
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I love those authors so much ❤ Happy reading!
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Yasssss to SOC. I’m so excited to see the TV series.
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Omg yes so excited! Happy reading 😀
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I lovee Laini Taylor! I still need to get around to reading Strange the Dreamer though!
My TTT post!
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Omg same! Hopefully this year!
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Six of Crows and To All the Boys are at the top of my all-time lists. They are amazing and I’m glad you got a chance to read them in 2018.
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They’re sooooo amazing ❤ ❤
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I’ve read a couple books by Rainbow Rowell that I enjoyed. I’ve also read several of Kasie West’s. I love her light, fluffy stories, especially to sandwich in between heavier reads. I’m glad you found some great authors to love during your first year of blogging!
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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Love these two authors ❤ happy reading!
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YASSS LEIGH BARDUGO IS LIFE. And I seriously need to read Morgan Matson??? Her books look incredible!
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Ahhh those two (but especially Leigh Bardugo because Leigh Bardugo) are amazinggggg ❤ ❤
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YASSS!
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Welcome to the blogging community where you can’t go 3 hours without hearing about Sarah J Maas 😂😂 haha I hadn’t heard of her before blogging either but EVERYONE seems to love her 🙂 (tho I still haven’t read any of her stuff it is on my “eventual TBR”)
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Omg yess so true haha
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Great post!
I literally a few days ago just finished reading To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han. So good and the Netflix film was perfectly adapted. I’m actually planning on reading Love, Simon next.
One of my favorite authors I discovered in 2018 was Caroline Kepnes. YOU was best thriller I’ve ever read. The TV Series was perfectly adapted for the 1st Season too.
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Thanks 😀 To All The Boys and Simon Vs are some of my all time favorite contemporaries ❤ I've never heard of Caroline Kepnes but I'm definitely going to check her books out now!!
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I’ve heard of many of these, but can’t said I’ve read them. FanGirl is still on my wish list.
http://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2019/01/top-ten-tuesday-new-to-me-authors-i.html
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Fangirl is fantastic ❤ highly recommend these all!
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Yay to so many of these authors! Please, please, please tell me that ACOTAR was your first read by her? Throne of Glass is good, buuuut the first book is deceiving. I love Becky Albertali’s writing style and the way she writes her characters is just…💋 I need to finally read Smoke & Bone and Strange the Dreamer (since I kinda sorta own both). This list made me very happy, is that weird? lol
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Yeah I’ve read the ACOTAR trilogy and definitely plan on reading TOG this year! Haha not weird at all in the book blogging community ❤️
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Fangirl is such a good book! I love it so much, but it’s been a while since I’ve read it. Guess that means it’s time for a reread! Levi is like the definition of a sweet boy, he’s so precious.
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Levi is bae ❤️❤️
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Becky Albertalli is my new author in 2018 too, I’m super late to read Simon but it’s still amazing and one of my favorite! ❤
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She’s so amazing ❤️❤️
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SIX OF CROWS! I loved Morgan Matson’s Save The Date and I’m 100% going to be reading more books from her this year.
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Love her books ❤️❤️
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Sarah J. Maas was by far my favorite new-to-me author in 2018! I read the entire TOG and ACOTAR series!
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She’s fantastic! I definitely plan to read TOG this year 🙂
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i’m so sad bc I tried ACOTAR and it was boring BUT i want to try the second book bc everyone says it’s amazing???? and better than book 1????
also simon needs to be protected and nurtured at all costs ❤
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Ahh I hope you enjoy the second book more I know I did 🙂 Yess Simon is so precious and perfect ❤
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After reading Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (honestly, I like the title Love, Simon better), I have been wanting to read other books from her but haven’t had the time too. I am hoping to get to them this year.
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Omg yess it takes too much effort to type Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda and I am a lazy sloth lol. I only read Simon and Leah, and I loved Simon and hated Leah, but I hope to read more from her this year!
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IKR it’s such a pain. Sometimes, I even forget which name is for the book so I just go for the shorter one lol
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Oh my gosh, I adore EVERY SINGLE AUTHOR on your list and I’m so glad to hear you enjoyed them this past year/discovered them. I’m especially excited to see Jenny Han getting so much love! Great picks. Hope 2019 brings you many more good reads and new-to-you authors!
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Yess all these authors including Jenny Han are amazing ❤ Happy reading!
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Becky Albertalli is a new to me author from 2018! She’s such an amazing writer! I’m reading my first Jenny Han book right now (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) and I’m loving her writing. I wish I read this book sooner!
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Omggg I love the to all the boys books SO MUCH THEY ARE MY LIFE ❤️ glad you’re enjoying 🙂
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Kasie’s books are all sunshine and happiness, and I love ’em! Also, three cheers for Jenny Han. Loved her book. Now I’m reminded I need to read more from Morgan (I read her ‘Amy & Roger’ novel a looong time ago) and someday I still must read a book by Leigh Bardugo! Happy Tuesday – and thanks so much for the visit to Finding Wonderland. 🙂
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All three of those authors have just the best contemporaries ❤ Happy reading!
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I loved Jenny Han this year, she was new to me aswell as Kasie West.
Owns Leigh’s, Morgan’s, Becky’s, Jenna’s, Jenn’s and Laini’s books, yet they sit on my shelves, unread.
I started reading SJM’s books last year and caught all up on the rest of her series this year.
Read Fangirl like 2-3 years ago so at least I like two of the popular authors
But can i join you under said rock please, i’m ashamed of myself?
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Ahh there’s room for lots under this rock haha! Hopefully we can climb out from under it someday!
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