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 New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2024.
I did a Top 5 Tuesday post on this same topic at the end of December… but there are so many new-to-me authors I enjoyed in 2024, so why not highlight even more? Check out my previous post, here, and don’t miss the T5T fun with Meeghan Reads!
First, here are the five new-to-me authors I features on my T5T post:
Carley Fortune — I’ve now read all three of her available novels!
Ali Brady — Same — three read, eagerly awaiting a new release!
Meg Shaffer – Read two!
Emilia Hart – Read one, waiting for her upcoming release in March
Julie Leong – Read her debut, and hope there are more books soon to come
And now, even more! Here are ten more new-to-me authors I read in 2024 — all of whom are authors whose books I’ll be looking for in the future as well:
Douglas Preston
Ayelet Tsabari
Holly Gramazio
Ray Nayler
Sarah Beth Durst
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Katherine Rundell
Alexa Martin
Hildur Knutsdottir
Virginia Heath
Which new-to-you authors did you discover in 2024?
Gotta love the year-end stats from Goodreads and StoryGraph! Being new to StoryGraph this year, I’m not quite used to its features, and I seem to have a few books missing in terms of my total numbers. Still, it’s fun to look back and see what my reading habits were in 2024.
First, according to Goodreads:
Quick note: My “shortest book” was actually an audiobook… hence the lack of a page count!
I completed my 2024 Reading Challenge… but keep in mind my total includes graphic novels and children’s books as well as novels and big, heavy books.
I’m starting a little lower with my target for 2025 (160 books) — we’ll see how it goes!
Over on Storygraph, the stats are a little different, and much more detailed — but most of what ended up on StoryGraph for me was based on my import from Goodreads. I suspect next year’s year-end stats will be a bit different:
Not sure which books I’m missing on StoryGraph… but too lazy to figure it out!Hmm… actually, I think the difference is books which are only available as audiobooks — StoryGraph counts audio separately.
If I’m correct and StoryGraph doesn’t count books that are strictly audio in the same mix as print/ebooks, that would explain why my shortest book of the year is different on StoryGraph than on Goodreads!
I knew I read quite a bit by Kelley Armstrong and Abby Jimenez this past year — but didn’t realize quite how much! And on the flip side, it’s nice to see how many new-to-me authors I tried.
I’m not taking my average rating too seriously for 2024 — as I mentioned, most of the data came from my Goodreads import, and a key difference between the platforms (one of many) is that StoryGraph allows for half-stars in ratings. I suspect my averages will look quite different at the end of 2025.
It’s actually startling to see how many books I read from series! I’m not surprised at the number of re-reads — I do love to revisit favorite books, especially via audiobook.
Well… that was fun! I don’t take any of the stats too seriously, but it is fun to see how my year’s reading looks as a whole. Maybe I’ll explore new territory in 2025 and shake things up a bit!
Or not — I’m looking forward to a year of reading whatever I feel like!
It’s time for my annual end-of-year tradition — all the books I meant to read! Here’s a look back at all the books I purchased in 2024, but just didn’t get around to reading for one reason or another.
I do think I’m getting much better at keeping my purchased hard copy books under control. More and more, I’ve been leaning toward mainly buying either (a) new books by authors or in series that I know I want to own, or (b) buying hard copy books for my shelves after discovering (either through an ARC or the library) a book that I love.
Of course, I still do give in to temptation when I happen to walk into a brick-and-mortar bookstore, especially a used book store! Then all restraint goes out the window.
When it comes to physical books, I seem to have improved my track record during this past year! I bought fewer hard copies overall, and many of the hardcovers and paperbacks I purchased were copies of books I’d already read, loved, and then decided to add to my bookshelves.
In terms of e-books, there are many, many more of those purchased in 2024 but not yet read. I tend to grab copies of ebooks when I see a good deal, not necessarily when I have an immediate intention of reading them right away. So, you’ll see lots and lots of new Kindle books added in 2024… and most of them still to be read.
Let’s get to it. Here’s a salute to my unread books of 2024!
First, the hardcovers and paperbacks:
Note: I’m reading The Spellshop right now… so maybe I’ll actually finish before the end of the year!
As for the ebooks added to my Kindle library in 2024:
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Yes, that’s a ton of e-books! Keep in mind, almost all of these were purchased when their prices dropped to a dollar or two… but still, that’s way more than I really should be adding to my library, when I still have so many books yet to read. I’ll try to do better in 2025 (but also, I acknowledge that I say this every year!)
End note:
While I’m talking about “meant to read” books, I thought I’d take a look at my quarterly Top Ten Tuesday TBR posts of 2024, to see if I actually read the books I listed as my priorities each season. And guess what? I did pretty well this year! Apparently I did a good job naming books that I was truly interested in, and ended up reading all but four of the 39 books I named! (Yes, 39 is correct — one book was listed two quarters in a row, but I did finally read it!). My unread TTT/TBR books are:
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow: Still plan to read
The Thorns Remain by JJA Harwood: Still plan to read
D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins: DNFd — just not for me
On Her Own by Lihi Lapid: Still plan to read
Have you read (and loved) any of my 2024 “meant-to-read” books? Please let me know if you see any you’d consider best of the bunch!
Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Meeghan Reads — check out the next batch of upcoming topics here.
Note: I’m a day late, but it’s the thought that counts! And my thought it that it’s perfectly okay to do Top 5 Tuesday on a Wednesday!
Last week’s topic was was Top 5 old authors of 2024 (which I interpreted as “old-to-me”), so it makes sense that this week’s topic would be Top 5 new authors of 2024! Meeghan’s prompt is: Tell us all about your favourite new authors. Either debut authors from 2024, or new-to-you this year..
To follow up from last week’s post, I’m going with new-to-me authors — authors whose books I tried for the first time in 2024… and loved!
Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Meeghan Reads — check out the next batch of upcoming topics here.
This week’s topic is Top 5 old authors of 2024, and the prompt is: This was a newbie wrap up topic last year, but you guys loved it!! Tell us about your fave authors you read books from this year who you’ve previously read books by.
Fun idea! Sorry to the authors I’m calling “old”!! You know what I mean… Here are five not-new-to-me authors whose books I read this year:
1: Abby Jimenez
Read in 2024:
The Friend Zone
The Happy Ever After Playlist
Life’s Too Short
Previously read:
Part of Your World
Yours Truly
Just for the Summer
2: Suzanne Allain
Read in 2024:
The Ladies Rewrite the Rules
Miss Lattimore’s Letter
The Wrong Lady Meets Lord Right
Previously read:
Mr. Malcolm’s List
3: Rachel Harrison
Read in 2024:
The Veil
So Thirsty
The Return
Previously read:
Cackle
Such Sharp Teeth
Black Sheep
4: Kelly Armstrong
Read in 2024:
Finding Mr. Write
I’ll Be Waiting
Disturbing the Dead
Schemes & Scandals
Previously read:
A Stitch in Time series (four books plus novellas)
A Rip Through Time series (books 1 and 2)
5: Lev AC Rosen
Read in 2024:
Rough Pages
Camp
Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)
Previously read:
Lavender House series (books 1 and 2)
Depth
All Men of Genius
Emmett
I could go on — looking at my 2024 reading list, I see so many authors who’ve been on my reading lists in previous years! But I’ll stop at five. These are all authors I can count on for great reading!
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