This is my thirteenth Top Ten Tuesday post, though technically it’s Wednesday and I’m late again! Top Ten Tuesday was created and is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I’m quite pleased about this theme as it’s great to think back to all the books I’ve read (so far!) this year. My list is in chronological order; it’s not a ranked Top Ten.
1. C. J. Daugherty – A debut author for 2012 with boarding-school mystery Night School. The sequel, Night School: Legacy is coming out in January and I am so excited!
2. Veronica Rossi – Another debut author (Under the Never Sky) with a sequel due in January – Through The Ever Night – that I am looking forward to enormously.
3. Eva Ibbotson – I wasn’t expecting to love Journey to the River Sea as much as I did, as it’s aimed at 9-12 year olds, but I was delighted by this new discovery and am looking forward to devouring all her other books.
4. Suzanne Collins – I finally read The Hunger Games! A book I first learnt about in 2009! I should have read it much sooner, but I’m glad I got around to it this year.
5. Sophie Flack – Yet another debut author – I’m looking forward to seeing what she does next, having liked Bunheads a lot.
6. Elaine Dundy – I really enjoyed the semi-autobiographical The Dud Avocado and am planning to read her other books soon.
7. Hannah Harrington – Again, Saving June was a debut that showed a lot of promise and I’m looking forward to reading Speechless, her second novel.
8. Rachel Vincent – An author with several series to her name, I started with My Soul to Take from the Soul Screamers series and have no plans to stop!
9. Malinda Lo – I’m really pleased that I read Ash this year and discovered another fairy tale reteller to obsess over!
10. Karen Russell – I’m currently reading St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, which is a book of short stories, and really enjoying it. All the protagonists/narrators are adolescents whose worlds are in some way a little magical. For example, there’s one story about a boy whose dad is a minotaur, and another about a boy who uses a pair of underwater goggles to look for the spirit of his dead sister.
Have you read any of these authors? What did you think?
Interesting list! I love Collins, and have Karen Russell on my to be read list – she's coming out with a book of short stories next year, that I'm looking forward to reading.
Hey, I kinda respect you for waiting the Hunger Games out this long! Good job 😉