Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. 

This week’s theme is a free one! So I decided to go with ten authors I discovered this year and that became new favorites! 2020 has been kind of a hellish year but I have found new favorite authors!⁠
Gotta find some light in the darkness right?😉⁠

As I have a migraine since Sunday, I’ll keep it simple today with the book title and a favorite quote!

Here are my 10 new favorites and the book I’ve read:⁠

🍂 Elizabeth Acevedo : With the Fire on High (contemorary YA);⁠

“…you can’t control how people look at you, but you can control how far back you pull your shoulders and how high you lift your chin”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

🍂 Jen de Luca: Well Met (romcom);⁠

“Ididn’t choose the wench life. The wench life chose me.”
― Jen DeLuca, Well Met

🍂 Beth O’Leary: The Switch + The Flatshare (woman fiction);⁠

“These people. There’s such a fierceness to them, such a lovingness. When I got here, I thought their lives were small and silly, but I was wrong. They’re some of the biggest people I know.” The Switch by Beth O’Leary

🍂 Katherine Center: What You Wish For (woman fiction);⁠

“You’ll never fix all your problems.” “Well, that’s encouraging.” “The point is to be happy anyway. As often as you can.”

🍂 Deborah Harkness: A Discovery of Witches (PNR);⁠

“It begins with absence and desire.
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches.”

🍂 Taylor Jenkins Reid: Daisy Jones and the Six + The Seven Husbands of Evelyne Hugo (Historical fiction);⁠

“Passion is…it’s fire. And fire is great, man. But we’re made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

🍂 Jennifer Estep: Kill the Queen (Fantasy);⁠

“The day of the royal massacre started out like any other.
With me doing something completely, utterly useless.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

🍂 Talia Hibbert: Take a Hint Dani Brown (Romcom);⁠

“Because he knew her well enough to realize she’d rather be holed up in here like Gollum, stroking books and murmuring, “My precious.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

🍂 Emily Henry: Beach read (woman fiction);⁠

“If you swapped out all my Jessicas for Johns, do you know what you’d get? Fiction. Just fiction. Ready and willing to be read by anyone, but somehow by being a woman who writes about women, I’ve eliminated half the Earth’s population from my potential readers, and you know what? I don’t feel ashamed of that. I feel pissed.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

🍂 Simone St James: The Sun Down Motel (horror)⁠

“I took my glasses off and set them to the table… The world went pleasantly blurry, and I didn´t have to see the details anymore.”
― Simone St. James, The Sun Down Motel
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All are recommendations from me to you! Have you read some of these? What new favorite author did you discover this hellish 2020 year?

Thanks for reading!

Sophie

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  3. Ahh what a fantastic list! I love love loveeeee Taylor Jenkins Reid so very much, I can’t wait to read all of her books, I loved Daisy and Evelyn so much. And YES! I read With the Fire on High just recently and adored it. <3

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  14. Quite a lot of thoses i’ve been wanting to read! But Well met is currently the only one that I own so far

    I loved each and every quotes you picked!! but this one is probably my faved;
    “I took my glasses off and set them to the table… The world went pleasantly blurry, and I didn´t have to see the details anymore.”

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  16. I’ve only read De Luca’s debut (obviously, since that’s all she’s published LOL) but I’m excited for her second book. And TJR is definitely one of my favorites. I’ve read 4-5 by her now and have loved them all.

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