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New Author Challenge

Read a book from 25 authors that you have never read before.

For every 5 new authors (new to you, not necessarily a debut author) that you read, you rank up a level.

1 - 5 - Bibliophage (bookworm)
6 - 10 - Bibliolater
11 - 15 - Bibliomane
16 - 20 - Bibliophile
21 - 25 - Bibliomaniac

All books must be at least 150 pages long. No graphic novels.
A book can only count for one task, so you must read 25 books in total.
This challenge runs from 1 November 2016 to 31 October 2017.

Level banners:


1 - 5 - Bibliophage


6 - 10 - Bibliolater


11 - 15 - Bibliomane


16 - 20 - Bibliophile


21 - 25 - Bibliomaniac

Progress: 25/25

Level: Bibliomaniac


1. Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould
2. Kiss of Broken Glass by Madeleine Kuderick
3. Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson
4. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
5. The Forsaken Inn by Anna Katharine Green
6. The Hangman's Whip by Mignon G. Eberhart
7. The Inn Between by Marina Cohen
8. Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis
9. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
10. South by Frank Owen
11. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
12. Jamie James and the Curse of the Ancestors by Roy Aronson
13. Middlemarch by George Eliot
14. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
15. Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia
16. Zodiac by Sam Wilson
17. R. Holmes and Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth by John Kendrick Bangs
18. Recipes for Love and Murder by Sally Andrew
19. No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
20. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
21. Indelible by Adelia Saunders
22. Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber
23. Her Ladyship's Elephant by David Dwight Wells
24. Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
25. The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria

Bibliophage:
1. A Court of Thorns and Roses
2. Baby Book: How to enjoy year one
3. Everything, Everything
4. Unremembered
5. The Seeing Place

Bibliolater:
6. Big Little Lies
7. The Legacy

My spot

Score: 25/25

Bibliophage:
Kingston Raine and the Grim Reaper
The Muddleheaded Wombat
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Scarlet Pimpernel

Bibliolater:
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit / Bombs on Aunt Dainty
Claws of the Cat
Still Life
Devil Dealing
Thaddeus of Warsaw

Bibliomane:
Exhibit A
Need You for Keeps
Harriet the Spy
The Earl's Defiant Wallflower
An Easy Thing

Bibliophile
Plaasmoord
Unseen
Knock, Murderer, Knock!
Recipes for Love and Murder
Miss Phryne Fisher Investigates

Bibliomaniac
Dracula
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
Paige's Turn
Homecoming Ranch

My spot

Score: 25/25

Bibliophage:
1. Anne Stone - Life's Gateway to Happiness
2. Rory Wilde - Forever Home
3. Erica Ridley - The Viscount's Christmas Temptation
4. Trip Ellington - Game Alive
5. Kimberley Bracco - Inhibitions

Bibliolater:
6. Andrew Samson - The Moon Is Toast: A Year in the Life of a Cricket Statistician
7. Carly Fall - By Sea
8. Summer Evans - A Soldier's Courage
9. Shea McLeod - Dragon Warrior
10. Julia Magruder - A Beautiful Alien

Bibliomane:
11. Alison Golden - The Case of the Screaming Beauty
12. Kelly Collins - The Trouble With Tinsel
13. Lauren Landish - Mr. CEO
14. Elana Johnson - Until Summer Ends
15. Steffanie Holmes - Art of Cunning

Bibliophile
16. Jean C Gordon - Mandy and the Mayor
17. Marilyn Olsen - Twice Sharpened: The Two-Edged Sword
18. Jean Oram - Champagne and Lemon Drops
19. Dani Collins - Blame the Mistletoe
20. Lucy Leroux - Calen's Captive

Bibliomaniac
21. JH Croix - Christmas on the Last Frontier
22. TR Bertrand - The Sexy Boss: Sedition
23. Andrea Pearson - The Key of Kilenya
24. Melissa Addy - The Happy Commuter: Over 100 Ways to Improve and Enjoy Your Commute
25. Cheryl Gorman - The Rancher and The Event Planner

I can totally do this challenge. Have quite a few books lined up by authors I haven't read yet.

Progress: 25/25

1. The Taming of the Queen by Phillipa Gregory
2. The Legacy by Melissa Delport
3. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
4. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
5. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
6. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
7. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
8. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
9. Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
10. Mister Memory by Marcus Sedgwick
11. The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes
12. The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey
13. Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert
14. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
15. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
16. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
17. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
18. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
19. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
20. The List by Siobhan Vivian
21. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
22. Hushed by Joanne Macgreggor
23. Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
24. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
25. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson

Score 16 /25

1. London Miller - Red.
2. Allyson Jeleyne - The Solemn Bell
3. Alissa Johnson - An Unexpected Gentleman
4. JB Salsbury - Split
5. Astrid Jane Ray - Virtue & Vanity
6. Michael Robotham - Say You're Sorry
7. Ariadne Wayne - Loving Rowan
8. Madelaine Montague - Wolf
9. Aleatha Romig - Betrayal
10. Melina Marchetta - Finnikin of the Rock
11. Nina G Jones - Debt
12. Stevie J Cole - Exrated
13. Christy English - Love on a Midsummer Night
14. Alexandra Bracken - Brightly Woven
15. Amber Mitchell - Garden of Thorns
16. Blair Holden - The Bad Boy's Girl

Carolien wrote: "Score: 5/25

Bibliophage:
Kingston Raine and the Grim Reaper
The Muddleheaded Wombat
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
[book:..."

Carolien earned the bibliophage banner!

Janice wrote: "Progress: 5/25


1. Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould
2. Kiss of Broken Glass by Madeleine Kuderick
3. Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson
4. [bo..."

Janice earned the bibliophage banner!

Jennifer wrote: "Score: 5/25

1. Anne Stone - Life's Gateway to Happiness
2. Rory Wilde - Forever Home
3. Erica Ridley - The Viscount's Christmas Temptation
4. Trip E..."

Jennifer earned the bibliophage banner!

I'd go with "The Viscount's Christmas Temptation"
Congratulations on your Bibliophage banner!

Score: 15/25

1. The Librarians and The Lost Lamp by Greg Cox
2. Forsakes Skies by Nolan D. Clark
3. The Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley
4. Hounded by Kevin Hearne
5. Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories by Michael Moorcock
6. The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
7. Slights by Kaaron Warren
8. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
9. The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
10. The Waking Fire by Anthony Ryan
11. Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh
12. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
13. Tracer by Rob Boffard
14. Morning Star by Pierce Brown
15. The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington

Score: 4/25
1. Gravity by Tess Gerritsen
2. Higher Love: Skiing the Seven Summits by Kit Deslauries
3. Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig
4. One Shot by Lee Child

3/25

1. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
2. Songs of Love and War - Santa Montefiore
3. The Killer Next Door - Alex Marwood

My score Update: Score now 5/25
5. Sky Stone by Jack Whyte

Carolien wrote: "Score: 10/25

Bibliophage:
Kingston Raine and the Grim Reaper
The Muddleheaded Wombat
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
[book..."

Carolien earned the bibliolater banner!

Joan wrote: "I can totally do this challenge. Have quite a few books lined up by authors I haven't read yet.

Progress: 6/25

1. The Taming of the Queen by Phillipa Gregory
2. [book:The Legacy|1..."

Joan earned the bibliophage banner!

Natalie wrote: "Score 9 /25

1. London Miller - Red.
2. Allyson Jeleyne - The Solemn Bell
3. Alissa Johnson - An Unexpected Gentleman
4. JB Salsbury - [book:Split|2..."

Natalie earned the bibliophage banner!

Richard wrote: "My score Update: Score now 5/25
5. Sky Stone by Jack Whyte"

Richard earned the bibliophage banner!

Janice wrote: "Progress: 10/25

Level: Bibliolater


1. Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould
2. Kiss of Broken Glass by Madeleine Kuderick
3. Since You've Been Gone by..."

Janice earned the bibliolater banner!

2/25

1.Me Before You
2.Daughter of Smoke and Bone

My update on reading:
6/26 = Savage Run by C. J. Box) The #2 of the Joe Pickett series.
7/26 = Honey in the Horn by H.L. Davis

Do anthologies count? In this case new anthology editors.

Crusader wrote: "Do anthologies count? In this case new anthology editors."

Only if all the contributors/authors of the short stories are also new authors to you.

Janice wrote: "Crusader wrote: "Do anthologies count? In this case new anthology editors."

Only if all the contributors/authors of the short stories are also new authors to you."

Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

Janice wrote: "Progress: 15/25

Level: Bibliomane


1. Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould
2. Kiss of Broken Glass by Madeleine Kuderick
3. Since You've Been Gone by ..."

Janice earned the bibliomane banner!

Carolien wrote: "Score: 16/25

Bibliophage:
Kingston Raine and the Grim Reaper
The Muddleheaded Wombat
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
[book..."

Carolien earned the bibliomane banner!

Crusader wrote: "Score: 5/25

1. The Librarians and The Lost Lamp by Greg Cox
2. Forsakes Skies by Nolan D. Clark
3. The Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley
4. Hounded by Kevin Hearne
5. [book:Elric of Melniboné and ..."

Crusader earned the bibliophage banner!

Jennifer wrote: "Score: 13/25

Bibliophage:
1. Anne Stone - Life's Gateway to Happiness
2. Rory Wilde - Forever Home
3. Erica Ridley - [book:The Viscount's Christmas Temptation|23277..."

Jennifer earned the bibliolater banner!

Jennifer wrote: "Score: 16/25

Bibliophage:
1. Anne Stone - Life's Gateway to Happiness
2. Rory Wilde - Forever Home
3. Erica Ridley - [book:The Viscount's Christmas Temptation|23277..."

Jennifer earned the bibliomane banner!

Natalie wrote: "Score 13 /25

1. London Miller - Red.
2. Allyson Jeleyne - The Solemn Bell
3. Alissa Johnson - An Unexpected Gentleman
4. JB Salsbury - [book:Split|..."

Natalie earned the bibliolater banner!

Janice wrote: "Progress: 20/25

Level: Bibliophile


1. Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould
2. Kiss of Broken Glass by Madeleine Kuderick
3. Since You've Been Gone by..."

Janice earned the bibliophile banner!

Carolien wrote: "Score: 20/25

Bibliophage:
Kingston Raine and the Grim Reaper
The Muddleheaded Wombat
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
[book..."

Carolien earned the bibliophile banner!

Janice wrote: "Progress: 25/25

Level: Bibliomaniac


1. Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould
2. Kiss of Broken Glass by Madeleine Kuderick
3. Since You've Been Gone b..."

Janice earned the bibliomaniac banner!

I'm done :)

Well done, Janice!

Natalie wrote: "Score 16 /25

1. London Miller - Red.
2. Allyson Jeleyne - The Solemn Bell
3. Alissa Johnson - An Unexpected Gentleman
4. JB Salsbury - [book:Split|..."

Natalie earned the bibliomane banner!

Well done Janice

Jennifer wrote: "Score: 22/25

Bibliophage:
1. Anne Stone - Life's Gateway to Happiness
2. Rory Wilde - Forever Home
3. Erica Ridley - [book:The Viscount's Christmas Temptation|23277..."

Jennifer earned the bibliophile banner!

Crusader wrote: "Score: 11/25

1. The Librarians and The Lost Lamp by Greg Cox
2. Forsakes Skies by Nolan D. Clark
3. The Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley
4. Hounded by Kevin Hearne
5. [book:Elric of Melniboné and..."

Crusader earned the bibliolater banner!

Joan wrote: "I can totally do this challenge. Have quite a few books lined up by authors I haven't read yet.

Progress: 13/25

1. The Taming of the Queen by Phillipa Gregory
2. [book:The Legacy|..."

Joan earned the bibliolater banner!

Finished

Well done!

Jennifer wrote: "Finished"

Well done Jennifer! You are a bibliomaniac!

Lu (Sugar & Snark) wrote: "Bibliophage:
1. A Court of Thorns and Roses
2. Baby Book: How to enjoy year one
3. Everything, Everything
4. Unremembered
5. [book:The..."

Lu earned the bibliophage banner!

Since my last posting on this site with my first 5 books, I've had various adventures and vacations and have 7 more books under my belt with reviews including the one today! Here they are:
6. Honey in the Horn by H.L. Davis
7. Savage Run by CJ Box
8. Valiant Ambition by N. Philbrick
9. Ordinary Grace by Kent Krueger
10. Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig
11. The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer
12. Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker

Richard wrote: "Since my last posting on this site with my first 5 books, I've had various adventures and vacations and have 7 more books under my belt with reviews including the one today! Here they are:
6. Honey..."

Richard earned the bibliolater banner!