Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten. This week, it’s about the new authors picked up in 2017. Sometimes there are authors whose work you don’t come across until like years later, but for some it’s their sophomore novel making waves and you getting interested in it. This list, obviously, doesn’t include any debut authors, but instead the top authors whose work I have read for the first time in the past year.
Cinda Williams Chima
When I started her Seven Realms quartet this year, it was because I was about to start the Shattered Realms and found out it is actually a spin-off to the former. And that led to an amazing world created by Chima! I devoured all 6 books in that universe, one after another – so fast! Her writing style is lush with details, but doesn’t come across as too heavy, and the books don’t rely on romance even though it is an important plot point for the Seven Realms series.
George R R Martin
It took me about half a year, but I finally read all five main books in A Song of Fire and Ice in 2017. Whew! I know people are clamoring for Winds of Winter to drop soon, but I’m like – I’m fine. It is okay. These books are really mind-boggling, slow-paced and there are too many character names to keep track of!
S J Kincaid
It was also the year when I finally read The Diabolic and The Empress – and I am impressed by the dystopic space fantasy that she created. The sequel, especially, was emotionally grueling, and I am so ready to get my heart broken in the final book of that trilogy. But until that one arrives, I think I will also check out her other works (Insignia is on my TBR) this year!
Emily Skrutskie
Her Abyss series is such an underrated one! Like, 10 minutes into the first book and I was already invested in the huge sea-beast Bao, and the main character Cass, and the bond between them (gentle sea monsters are my kryptonite, what can I say). And there is this awesome hate-to-love romance. Like, these books had my heart, ya’ll.
Susan Ee
I don’t know why I put off reading her Penryn and the End of Days trilogy so long – they were good and entertaining. And delightfully dark and full of action and angels, without angst.
Alice Oseman
I had been missing out on some amazingly written characters when I was not reading Solitaire. This year, I finally read it, along with Radio Silence, and my, was I impressed with the characterization! Oseman just reaches into the heart of every character and builds stories around it.
Samantha Shannon
Okay, I’ll admit a big part of my avoiding reading The Bone Season was because it is slated to be a 7(!)-book series, and right now, only the first two (and a companion book) are out. I will most definitely be in for a long long wait for the conclusion of this saga, but I saw it pop up on my Scribd and I was like, what the hell, I can always reread closer to the sequel releases. And I definitely don’t regret the decision – Scion London is a vastly imagined place to explore and I am excited to uncovering it book by book! I plan to read The Mime Order this year.
Sarah Kuhn
Kuhn gave us two amazing POC heroines in The Heroine Complex series, along with loads of humor, action, and deep friendship. I was delighted to read it.
Which authors did you read for the first time in 2017?
YA on my Mind 
This is a great list! I also read Cinda Williams Chima for the first time last year and I totally fell in love with her writing 😀 And congratulations on reading ASOIAF! The books are amazing but so long 😛
This is an amazing list. You read all the book in Games of Thrones series?? That’s really incredible. I love the show but haven’t read any book till date.. hopefullt this year? 😛
My TTT: http://flippingthruthepages.com/2018/01/top-ten-tuesday-11-new-authors-read-2017/
I read them all in audio so that it didn’t take away from my normal reading time. That’s the only way I could read them. If I did in print, it would be like an entire weekend at least per book
For me I guess it would have taken more than weekend 😀
I read Samantha Shannon for the first time this year too!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/02/top-ten-tuesday-140/
I need to continue The Demon King, I really liked what I read but have forgotten about that series!
Penryn is one of my all-time favorites. I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I need to read Seven Realms soon. It’s been on my TBR entirely too long.
My TTT: http://www.momwithareadingproblem.com/2018/01/ttt-129-new-authors-read-2017/
George RR Martin made my list, too. I only read the first book in his series, but I’ll get to the rest. It’ll probably take me forever to get through them.
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