Challenge Corner discussion

If you're wanting to broaden your reading with new authors, track them here. Set a goal of how many new authors you want to read and see how far you get over the year. These don't have to be authors with debut books, just ones you haven't read before.

New Author Challenge 2021
Duration: 01/01/2021-12/31/2021
Progress: 82/50

1. Barbara Davis - The Last of the Moon Girls (1/4)
2. Judy Corry - Meet Me There (1/4)
3. Mike Resnik - The Buntline Special (1/5)
4. H.G. Wells - The Time Machine (1/6)
5. Tara Altebrando - The Leaving (1/8)
6. Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Mexican Gothic (1/10)
7. Geraldine Brooks - People of the Book (1/15)
8. Maya Motayne - Nocturna (1/20)
9. Alexandra Christo - To Kill a Kingdom (1/21)
10. Karen Healey - Guardian of the Dead (1/23)
11. Shea Ernshaw - The Wicked Deep (1/28)
12. Kiera Cass - The Selection (2/5)
13. C.J. Lyons - The Color of Lies (2/7)
14. John Marrs - What Lies Between Us (2/7)
15. Marieke Nijkamp - Even If We Break (2/11)
16. Casey McQuiston - Red, White & Royal Blue (2/13)
17. Hallie Rubenhold - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (2/15)
18. Alyssa Cole - When No One is Watching (2/17)
19. Amy Engel - The Roanoke Girls (2/18)
20. Karina Halle - Lovewrecked (2/20)
21. Charlie N. Holmberg - Spellbreaker (2/22)
22. Chloe Gong - These Violent Delights (2/26)
23. Robert A. Heinlein - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (2/26)
24. Anna-Marie McLemore - Dark and Deepest Red (3/5)
25. Iain Reid - I'm Thinking of Ending Things (3/7)
26. Adalyn Grace - All the Stars and Teeth (3/9)
27. Beverley Scherberger - Savage Isle: Beautiful...Isolated...Deadly (3/9)
28. Tracey Garvis Graves - On the Island (3/14)
29. Cherie Priest - The Toll (3/15)
30. Michael Brooks - 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time (4/4)
31. Yangsze Choo - The Ghost Bride (4/23)
32. Delia Owens - Where the Crawdads Sing (4/25)
33. Ania Ahlborn - The Shuddering (4/27)
34. Jaimie Roberts - Amnesia (5/2)
35. James Smythe - The Explorer (5/6)
36. Zoe Folbigg - The Night We Met (5/15)
37. Mia Sheridan - More Than Words (5/19)
38. Alex Rosa - Unwritten (5/23)
39. Ruth Hogan - The Keeper of Lost Things (5/25)
40. Paolo Bacigalupi - Ship Breaker (5/30)
41. Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank (5/31)
42. David Moody - Autumn (6/4)
43. Huntley Fitzpatrick - My Life Next Door (6/7)
44. Claire Douglas - Local Girl Missing (6/10)
45. Albert Camus - The Stranger (6/14)
46. Sue Ann Jaffarian - Ghost in the Polka Dot Bikini (6/20)
47. William Nack - Secretariat: The Making of a Champion (6/23)
48. Jeanne Ryan - Nerve (6/27)
49. Anna Kendrick - Scrappy Little Nobody (6/29)
50. Jennifer Jaynes - Disturbed (6/30)
51. Louise Erdrich - Future Home of the Living God (6/30)
52. Dave Eggers - The Circle (7/5)
53. Christopher McDougall - Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (7/7)
54. Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie (7/9)
55. Jennifer Dugan - Hot Dog Girl (7/17)
56. Sandra Block - What Happened That Night (7/22)
57. Sabine Durrant - Remember Me This Way (7/24)
58. Lauren Conrad - L.A. Candy (7/26)
59. Gabrielle Zevin - Elsewhere (7/28)
60. Rachel Caine - Stillhouse Lake (7/31)
61. A.L. Herbert - Murder with Macaroni and Cheese (8/5)
62. Sally Hepworth - The Mother-in-Law (8/14)
63. Justina Ireland - Dread Nation (8/20)
64. Sally Thorne - 99 Percent Mine (8/22)
65. Gail Carson Levine -Ella Enchanted (8/28)
66. Minka Kent - The Thinnest Air (8/31)
67. Rachel Harrison - The Return (9/2)
68. Mary Kubica - Pretty Baby (9/10)
69. Jennifer McMahon - Burntown (9/19)
70. Steve Toutonghi - Join (9/29)
71. Jack London - The Call of the Wild (10/16)
72. Kara Thomas - The Cheerleaders (10/17)
73. by Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife (10/27)
74. Nick Cutter - Little Heaven (10/28)
75. Nina Laurin - Girl Last Seen (10/31)
76. Riley Sager - Final Girls (11/9)
77. Matt Haig - The Midnight Library (11/30)
78. Susie Steiner - Missing, Presumed (12/12)
79. Alexis Henderson (12/14)
80. Eve Chase - Black Rabbit Hall (12/17)
81. Olivia Blake - The Atlas Six (12/21)
82. Alice Feeney - Rock Paper Scissors (12/24)

New Author Challenge: 2021
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 21

1. The Mortal Blade by Christopher Mitchell (1/3)
2. At First Sight by Hannah Sunderland (1/3)
3. Just the Two of Us by Ryu Hyang (1/5)
4. The Fate of Crowns by Rebecca L. Garcia (1/5)
5. Fairy Godmothers, Inc. by Saranna DeWylde (1/6)

I would like to participate in this one I think I have several books by authors I have never read before I will try for 20
Progress 94/20

1. Alice Miller-- The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting 1/8
2. Steven Erikson -- Gardens of the Moon 1/4
3. Victor Hugo-- Les Misérables 1/12
4. Octavia E. Butler-- Parable of the Sower 1/11
5. Joe Abercrombie -- The Blade Itself 1/16
6. Robert Dugoni -- My Sister's Grave 1/16
7. Blake Crouch -- Pines 1/19
8. Wendy S. Swore -- A Monster Like Me 1/15
9. Peter F. Hamilton-- The Dreaming Void 1/22
10. Richard Nell--Kings of Paradise 1/22
11. Penny Marshall--My Mother Was Nuts 1/23
12. Orson Scott Card-- Ender's Game 1/25
13. F.C. Yee The Rise of Kyoshi 1/25
14. Robert T. Potter-Efron Angry All the Time: An Emergency Guide to Anger Control 1/27
15. Peter Watcht The Legend of the Kestrel 1/28
16. Howard Sounes Fred & Rose 1/28
17. Dennis E. Taylor We Are Legion (We Are Bob) 1/30
18. Nicholas Sandbury Smith and Anthony J. Melchiorri Extinction Shadow 1/30
19. Robert McCammon Swan Song 2/8
20. T.J. Klune The House in the Cerulean Sea 2/4
21. Robin Hobb Assassin's Apprentice 2/18
22. Dan Simmons Hyperion 2/17
23. Lionel Shriver We Need to Talk About Kevin 2/22
24.Kent Kiehl The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience 2/24
25. Phillip C. Quaintrell Rise of the Ranger 2/27
26. Scott Savage Fires of Invention 2/27
27. Adrian Tchaikovsky Children of Time 3/7
28. Melissa McPhail Cephrael's Handb3/12
29. Laini Taylor Strange the Dreamer 3/20
30. R. J. Palacio Wonder 3/24
31. Jess Lourey Unspeakable Things 3/25
32. Gregory Maguire Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West 3/26
33. Diana Xarissa The Appleton Case 3/28
34. George Orwell 1984 3/28
35. Jon Krakauer Into the Wild 3/31
36. Anna-Marie McLemore When the Moon Was Ours 4/4
37. Victor Kloss Elizabeth's Legacy 4/6
38. David Farland The Sum of All Men 4/25
39. Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible 4/25
40. Pierce Brown Red Rising 4/11
41. James Clavell Shōgun 4/19
42. Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow 4/11
43. Mary Robinette Kowal The Calculating Stars 4/18
44. Brit Bennett The Vanishing Half
45. Glendy Vanderah Where the Forest Meets the Stars
46. Kevin Wilson Nothing to See Here
47. Agatha Christie And Then There Were None
48. Elizabeth Acevedo With the Fire on High
49. Emily Lloyd-Jones The Bone Houses
50. Justine Bateman Face: One Square Foot of Skin
51. Natasha Boyd The Indigo Girl
52. Justin Sloan Shadow Corps
53. Julie Murphy Dumplin'
54. Megan Campisi Sin Eater
55. Lee Baer Getting Control: Overcoming Your Obsessions and Compulsions
56. Brian Mclellan Promise of Blood
57. John Irving The Cider House Rules
58. Victor Frankle Man's Search for Meaning
59. Greig Beck The Siberian Incident
60. Karen McManus One of Us Is Lying
61. Rosanne A. Brown A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
62. Jenna Moreci The Savior's Champion
63. Ijeoma Olou So You Want to Talk About Race
64. Brian Nelson The Last Sword Maker
65. Frances Hardinge Cuckoo Song
66. Greg Mortinson Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
67. Hafsah Faizal We Hunt the Flame
68. Max Hawthorn Kronos Rising
69. Daniel Stern The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life
70. Caitlin Sangster Last Star Burning
71. Laura Sebastian Ash Princess
72. Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
73. Demian Vitanza This Life or the Next
74. Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure
75. Mary Shelly Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
76. Charlie Jane Anders The City in the Middle of the Night
77. Josiah Bancroft Senlin Ascends
78. Arkady Martine A Memory Called[book:Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Empire|37794149]
79. Torsten Weitze Ahren
80. Robert Ludlum The Bourne Identity
81. Michael Grant Gone
82. Melanie Golding Little Darlings
83. David Gemmell Legend
84. Peter Benchley Jaws
85. Jessie Burton The Miniaturist
86. Patrick Suskind Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
87. Ryan Graudine Wolf by Wolf
88. Kate Elizabeth Russell My Dark Vanessa
89. Ron Powers No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
90. Caleb Carr The Alienist
91. Matthew Ward Legacy of Ash
92. Emily A. Duncan Wicked Saints
93. John Gilstrap No Mercy
94. Josh Malerman Bird Box
95. Justin Travis Call Master of Sorrows
96. Fonda Lee Jade City
97. Olga Khazan Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World
98. Carol Goodman The Ghost Orchid
99. Ta Nehisi Coats The Water Dancer
100. Amanda Foody Ace of Shades
101. Jenifer Donley Deep Blue
102. Rebecca Roanhorse Trail of Lightning
103. J. P. Smith The Summoning
104. Suzana Lopex Rubio The Price of Paradise
105. Poul Anderson The Broken Sword
106. Lyndall Clipstone Lakesedge
107. James hunter Cataclysm
108. Matthew Wooding Stover Heroes Die
109. Debbie Zello Why we don't die in Dreams
110. Michael Werbrouk Lord of Goblins, Vol. 1
111. Diane Dujon For Crying Out Loud: Women's Poverty in the United States

New Author Challenge 2021
Progress: 14/40

1) Theogony - Hesiod
2) Prometheus Bound - Aeshylus
3) The Bacchae and Other Plays - Euripides
4) Homeric Hymns - Homer
5) Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - Marjane Satrapi
6) Principles of Archaeology - T. Douglas Price
7) Patterns of World History: Brief Third Edition, Volume Two from 1400 - Peter von Sivers
8) Themes in Greek Society and Culture: An Introduction - Allison Glazebrook
9) Voyager - Diana Gabaldon
10) Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction - Helen Morales
11) Lore Olympus, Season 1 - Rachel Smythe
12) The Lady of Misrule - Suzannah Dunn
13) Exploring Microsoft Office 2019 Introductory - Mary Anne Poatsy
14) True Beauty - Yaongyi

New Authors
Progress: 7/25

1. Parachutes by Kelly Yang (1/3)
2. To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo (1/9)
3. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple by Deborah Layton (1/17)
4. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (1/22)
5. Hurricane Summer by Asha Bromfield (1/22)
6. Spoiler Alert (1/24)
7. You'd Be Mine (1/30)

New Author Challenge 2021
Duration: 01/01/2021-12/31/2021

Progress 10/10

1- Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
2 - Paul Angone - 101 Secrets for Your Twenties
3 - Meik Wiking The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
4 - Laurien Berenson - Dog Eat Dog
5 - Rachel Jones (Is this it?)
6 - Laura Levine (Candy Cane Murder)
7- Judy Corry - Kissing the Boy Next Door
8 - Ophelia London - Falling for Her Soldier
9 - Jocko Willink Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
10 Cecily von Ziegesar Gossip Girl

New Author Challenge
Duration: 2021
Completed: 15/

January (2)
7th - Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
21st - The Patient by Jasper DeWitt

February (7)
2nd - Demon King by Elizabeth Briggs
2nd - Unmasqued: An Erotic Novel of The Phantom of The Opera by Colette Gale
2nd - The Deal by Elle Kennedy
3rd - Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout
6th - Green Witchcraft: A Practical Guide to Discovering the Magic of Plants, Herbs, Crystals, and Beyond by Paige Vanderbeck
9th - Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
11th - A Beauty So Cruel by Beena Khan

March (1)
20th - The Last Tiara by M.J. Rose

July (1)
5th - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

October (4)
3rd - A Noise Downstairs by Linwood Barclay
13th - The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
14th - Tranquil Heights by Man Speece
26th - Night Film by Marisha Pessl