Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2025, with the prompt New-to-you authors you discovered, new genres you learned you like, new bookish resources you found, friends you made, local bookshops you found, a book club you joined, etc.
I always enjoy taking a moment to reflect on and appreciate new-to-me authors whose books I experienced for the first time… and there were quite a few in 2025!
Here are ten new-to-me authors I read in 2025 — all of whom are authors whose books I’ll be looking for in the future as well:
- Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding (co-authors)
- Freya Marske
- Mike Gayle
- Richard Osman
- Liz Moore
- Kirsty Greenwood
- Janelle Brown
- Ariel Lawhon
- Rachel Koller Croft
- Kiersten White
Do you have other books by these authors to recommend?
Which new-to-you authors did you discover in 2025?
If you wrote a TTT post, please share your link!
Bookshelf Fantasies 
Lawhon is a great author! 📚
I’m curious about The God of the Woods.
I have loved everything that I’ve read by Mike Gayle. I hope you enjoy exploring his back catalogue.
I love Ariel Lawhon, I’ve also read Code Name Helene and it was amazing. I haven’t read most of these, I’m curious about Mike Gayle and Freya Marske.
Fab list! I love Freya Marske!
Emma of 83rd Street looks so good! I hope you find many more amazing authors this year 😊.
If you’d like to visit, here’s my TTT: https://thebooklorefairyreads.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-discoveries-i-made-in-2025/