A MONTH OF FAVORITES
#amonthoffaves
All December-long,
Estella’s Revenge, Girlxoxo, and Traveling with T
will be sharing our fave bookish
(and sometimes non-bookish)
experiences from throughout the year
AND we want YOU to join us!
Dec 9 is for
Fave New-to-Me Author Discoveries – linking up with Top Ten Tuesday
Enjoy my 10 Fave New-to-Me Author Discoveries, of books read in 2015 so far.
HAVE YOU READ ANY OF THESE AUTHORS?
WHICH ONE IS YOUR FAVORITE?
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Pascal Garnier and Louise Penny are two authors I discovered back in 2012/2013 and they’re still firm favourites. Enjoy!
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good stuff! and the neat thing I have lots of books to come with Louise Penny, as I only read vol 1!
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My favorite new-to-me author has got to be Kate Atkinson for her imaginative and extremely well written novel “Live After Life”. It took a while to get used to what she was doing, but once I was with her I loved the ride through time.
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I still need to try this book. I’ve heard so many good and bad things about it!
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Great list! I enjoyed Citadel and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and I’m very much looking forward to reading Madame Picasso and All the Light We Cannot See soon (likely next year, lol) 🙂
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nice titles for next year already then. I found them really excellent
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It’s so interesting to see what books are being chosen as favorites. I keep seeing All The Light We Cannot See, so I know I must read that. But, I intensely disliked the Harry Quebert Affair. So, that particular novel didn’t work for me. I know lots of people loved it, though. Thanks for sharing your inspirations from 2014!
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I’m surprised you did not like The Harry Quebert indeed, it’s so interesting in structure. Actually my big post with favorites per category will be up in January only.
And yes to All The Light We Cannot See, the audio works very well too
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I thought Harry Quebert too contrived, and absolutely not accurate in its setting of America. The author’s naivity and youth somehow really bothered me. Perhaps because i thought the adoration his book received undeserved, or at least over the top. However, i am in a huge minority with that opinion.
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ah yes now I remember your mention of the American setting. I guess I’m not American enough yet to have noticed
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I’m excited to see Anthony Doerr and Willa Cather on your list!
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aren’t they good!
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I’ve read 1/2 of one of the books on your list. How’s that? LOL. I got about halfway through ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, but it got too slow for me. I might pick it up again one day because the writing is lovely and I thought the premise was interesting. Glad you enjoyed it!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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you could try to listen to it, this is actually what I did, and the narrator is excellent. The difference could well be that I am probably at least the age of your parents, lol. BUT I LOVE Kate Morton, cf your list. I just happened to discover her a few years ago, not this year
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Madame Picasso is on my wishlist. It sounds so great! I’ll have to look up the other books. Great list!
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yes Madame Picasso was really good!
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The only author on your list that I have read is Willa Cather. But her novel My Antonia is one of my all time favorites; one that I have read and reread. If any of the other authors on your list are half as good as Ms Cather then I must consider them. In fact, Anthony Doerr’s novel is on the short list of a reading group to which I belong so he may be the next.
Thanks for the interesting list.
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I definitely plan to read more by Cather! And yes I’m quite picky, so these 10 books are really good! Come back at the beginning of January where I will post about my favorites by genre of this year 2014. Thanks Jim for stopping by
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Ooh, so many interesting books! I’m listening to the audio book for My Antonia right now and it’s so good. My first time reading Willa Cather.
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hmm, I don’t often listen to classics, but of course it should work. That was also my 1st Cather, and I definitely want to read more
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