2011: Challenges – New Author Challenge 2011
Last challenge for now! I’m really cutting back this year. We’ll see what else pops up in the next week or so. This one is the New Author Challenge, hosted once again by Literary Escapism. I especially liked this challenge last year.
The usual challenge guidelines apply. You can choose to try 15, 25, or 50 new authors.
Sign-up on the challenge post! I’m shooting for 25 new authors. My list will be below.
last updated: 8/15/11
- Labor Day – Joyce Maynard
- The Cypress House – Michael Koryta
- Vows, Vendettas & a Little Black Dress – Kyra Davis
- Crazy Hot – Tara Janzen
- The Pickup – Nadine Gordimer
- Diavolino – Steve Emmett
- The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
- The Raising – Laura Kasischke
- Love in Infant Monkeys – Lydia Millet
- The Woman He Married – Julie N. Ford
- The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
- Never Look Back – Linwood Barclay
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- The Heights – Peter Hedges
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake – Aimee Bender
- The Cold Room – J.T. Ellison
- I Love You, Beth Cooper – Larry Doyle
- Moon Called – Patricia Briggs
- Hush – Kate White
- Trapped – Michael Northrop
- Madapple – Christina Meldrum
- Haunted Heart – Carolyn Rosewood
- Bloodline – Mark Billingham
- Maine – J. Courtney Sullivan
- Killing My Boss – Colin F. Barnes & Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
This is apparently not an area in which I need to be challenged;) Of the 68 books I read last year (well those I kept a record of), 51 were by new-to-me authors. That does include an anthology, and I was too lazy to remove the non-fiction, but I had no goals. I need to do the second books by authors! I love reading the challenge ideas; they make me think.
Gosh, are you sure this is the last one! :p
I am sure there will be more and you will be tempted. I surely am 🙂