Thursday 13: More New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2024

Colleen at The Thursday 13 holds a weekly blogging prompt where bloggers make a list of 13 things on Thursdays. The topic is for you to choose. The blog host doesn't have any official graphics to display on the Thursday 13 posts, so I decided to whip one up myself. 🙂  

This is a book topic so I will also be posting to the Discussion Challenge at Feed Your Fiction Addiction and It Starts at Midnight.

One of the first Thursday 13 posts I did when I began participating last summer was on new-to-me authors I read in the first half of 2024. I had more then 13 to choose from at that point so narrowing it down as a little hard. I knew I'd find more during the rest of the year. Again, I found  more than 13 (per my Goodreads list for 2024), and it was once again hard to choose just that many. 

I've never done this weekly posting topic at this blog, though I have glanced at the blog. This weeks topic happens be "Top 10 new-to me authors I discovered in 2024." The topic at the blog above me think of my post and made me want to do a second one on the same topic. The blogging topic is for making Top 10 book lists, but I wanted to do them one better. Make that three better 😉 Will be linking to that one as well.

So here are some more of the new-to-me authors I read in 2024, mostly in the second half of the year, since the original post was at the end of last June. Once again, I will be listing  the book I read from the author and how I came across the books. These are not in any particular order.

1. Katherine Slee--The Book of Second Chances Needing a book for one of the prompts in this challenge, I looked up books in my library's database containing the word "second." This one came up and I had already seen it at the library. I wanted to read it when I first saw but decided against it for the time being. When it came up in my search, I decided it was the one I'd choose.
2. Saleem Haddad--Guapa While searching for a book by an LGBTQ+ MENA author, I came across this one in my library database. I decided on it right then, but did not get around to reading it until December. 
3. Sabaa Tahir--All My Rage I picked this one for one of these prompts. It came up, and I was afraid of not finding it at my library, but I did.
4. Laila Lalami--The Other Americans As with the book Guapa, I decided on this when I first come across the title, but put off reading the book until the end of the year.  Needing a North African author, this one came up while searching. Again, it seemed like one by library would not have, but did.
5. Zadie Smith--Swing Time I'd known about this author for some time, and have been waiting to read her book White Teeth. But this was the only one at the library. I'll have to keep looking for the other book! 
6. Susan Crandall--Whistling Past the Graveyard  One of the books I picked up at a thrift store, most likely because I liked how it sounded when I first saw it. 
7. Clare Boylan--Emma Brown It seems to get harder and harder to find titles containing "brown", yet I just have to do this challenge every year, because I still enjoy it. When looking for a title in my library database, this one came up and it sounded good. I was particularly interesting in this one after learning it was written from an unfinished manuscript left behind by Charlotte Bronte when she died. This author picked it up nearly 150 years later.
8. Zaraida Cordova--The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina This was one of those books I saw for sale when it first came out. It looked good, but didn't want to buy it. I nearly forgot about it, until I saw it at the library. I was not aware they have it until last December.
9. Eric Gansworth--Apple: Skin to the Core Having had the Indigenous culture prompt at least twice last year, this what I chose. It seems that a lot of the  books at my library that have to do with indigenous culture are in the reference section or our "California Collection" shelves, and not for loan. This makes it find such book to read. But this one was in the YA section.
10. Susanna Clarke--Piranesi Unsure how exactly I found this one, though I seem to remember hearing about it somewhere, sometime earlier. I obviously was interested enough to seek it out.
11. Hannah Orenstein--Love at First Like When searching for a book with "like" in the title, this was one that came up in my library catalog. It just sounded good.
12. Plum Sykes--Bergdorf Blondes One of those books that I got at a thrift store but don't remember when or why I chose it. I have many books that fit this description.
13. Linda Holmes--Evvie Drake Starts Over  I'd heard so much about this book and kept meaning to read it, but did not get to it until November. 

Are you familiar with any of these authors? If not, do any of them sound interesting to you? Have you discovered any new authors this past year?