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New 2 U Authors 2021

Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Devil May Care Read: 0/20+

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January Reads

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Round 2 complete!
message #30

Round 4 complete in post #90. On to round 5!

1. Susi Hawke - Pumpkin Spiced Omega
2. Dave Itzkoff - Robin
3. Adele Parks - Just My Luck
4. Shūsaku Endō - Silence
5. Roger Zelazny - Nine Princes in Amber
6. E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime
7. James Lovegrove - Big Damn Hero
♥ 8. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Dangerous Liaisons ♥
9. Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
10. Greg Pak - Firefly: The Unification War Vol. 1
11. Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
12. Jerry Spinelli - Stargirl
13. Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
14. Louise Douglas - The House by the Sea
15. Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
16. Peter May - The Blackhouse
17. Dick Van Dyke - Keep Moving: And Other Truths About Living Well Longer
18. Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
19. Jonathan Clements - A Brief History of the Samurai: The Way of Japan's Elite Warriors
20. Judi Dench - Scenes from My Life

New 2 U Authors 2021
Duration: May 2021 - December 2021
Level: Devil May Care
Read: 60/20+

1. Virgin River by Robyn Carr
2. The Restaurant by Pamela M. Kelley
3. Sorry Not Sorry by Sophie Ranald
4. On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle
5. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
6. A Deadly Grind by Victoria Hamilton
7. A Killer Cupcake by Fiona Grace
8. A Dark and Stormy Murder by Julia Buckley
9. For Whom the Book Tolls by Laura Gail Black
10. Off Kilter by Hannah Reed
11. Engaged in Murder by Nancy J. Parra
12. Yarn to Go by Betty Hechtman
13. Daisies for Innocence by Bailey Cattrell
14. Flipped for Murder by Maddie Day
15. Murder by the Book by Lauren Elliott
16. Brownies and Broomsticks by Bailey Cates
17. Beach Read by Emily Henry
18. Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
19. Death By Cashmere by Sally Goldenbaum
20. The Deep End by Julie Mulhern
21. Sew Deadly by Elizabeth Lynn Casey
22. Plaid and Plagiarism by Molly MacRae
23. The Cherry Cola Book Club by Ashton Lee
24. A Crafty Killing by Lorraine Bartlett
25. Strangled Prose by Joan Hess
26. Handbags and Homicide byDorothy Howell
27. Alpine for You by Maddy Hunter
28. Just Killing Time by Julianne Holmes
29. Live and Let Chai by Bree Baker
30. Apple Cider Slaying by Julie Anne Lindsey
31. A Sheetcake Named Desire by Jacklyn Brady
32. It Takes Two to Mango by Carrie Doyle
33. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
34. Never Buried by Edie Claire
35. Snow Way Out by Christine Husom
36. Death Al Dente by Leslie Budewitz
37. Antiques Roadkill by Barbara Allan
38. The Readaholics and the Falcon Fiasco by Laura DiSilverio
39. The Snowman Killer by Wendy Meadows
40. Limoncello Yellow by Traci Andrighetti
41. An Appetite for Murder by Lucy Burdette
42. Feint of Art by Hailey Lind
43. The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes by Leonard Goldberg
44. Ill-Gotten Panes by Jennifer McAndrews
45. Yarned and Dangerous by Sadie Hartwell
46. Sketch Me If You Can by Sharon Pape
47. I Scream, You Scream by Wendy Lyn Watson
48. Better Off Wed by Laura Durham
49. The Uninvited Corpse by Debra Sennefelder
50. The Chocolate Cat Caper by JoAnna Carl
51. Pancakes and Corpses by Agatha Frost
52. No Farm, No Foul by Peg Cochran
53. Engaged in Death by Stephanie Blackmoore
54. Lending a Paw by Laurie Cass
55. Who Moved My Goat Cheese? by Lynn Cahoon
56. The Quiche and the Dead by Kirsten Weiss
57. Evans Above by Rhys Bowen
58. The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
59. Fatal Fixer-Upper by Jennie Bentley
60. Murder at the Mena House by Erica Ruth Neubauer

Updated msg. 18. I'm gonna stop with having done two rounds. Thanks mods, always a fun challenge!

New 2U Authors 2021
beginning Sept 01
Devil May Care 20+
completed 25/20


1. Natalie Sumner Lincoln - The Red Seal
2. Zabrina Faire - The Midnight Match
3. Joan Lowery Nixon - The Other Side Of Dark
4. D.M. Wind - The Others
5. K.W. Jeter - Dark Seeker
6. Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Velvet Was the Night
7. John Blaine - The Blue Ghost Mystery
8. Jeffrey Ashford - Presumption of Guilt
9. Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club
10. Chuck Wendig - The Book of Accidents
11. Mollie Cox Bryan - Goodnight Moo
12. Vivien Chien - Killer Kung Pao
13. Nev March - Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery
14. Kerry Newcomb - Texas Born
15. David Shobin - The Seeding
16. Rhys Bowen - Away in a Manger
17. B.A. Paris- Bring Me Back
18. Tarryn Fisher - The Wrong Family
19. Bella Ellis - The Vanished Bride
20. Megan Miranda- Such a Quiet Place
21. Chris Sorensen - The Nightmare Room
22. Sandie Jones - The Other Woman
23. Amanda Desiree - Smithy
24. Anthony M. Strong - The Haunting of Willow House
25. Robert James-Blood Mist

New 2 U Authors 2021.
Duration: January 1st, 2021 - December 31st, 2021.
Level: Devil May Care.
Read: 77/20+

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Done! 100 new authors! (post 105) Can I manage a round 6 this year? I think so :)

1. Jilly Cooper - Riders
2. Sun Tzu - The Art of War
3. Sarah Painter - The Night Raven
4. Larry Correia - A Murder of Manatees
5. Richard Brautigan - In Watermelon Sugar
6. Saul Bellow - Dangling Man
7. Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
8. Thomas More - Utopia
9. Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
♥ 10. Christopher Priest - The Prestige ♥
11. Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark
12. John Ajvide Lindqvist - Let the Right One In
13. Tess Stimson - One In Three
14. Arnold Bennett - The Old Wives' Tale
15. Mark Tufo - Zombie Fallout
16. Jonathan Janz - Midnight in the Graveyard
17. Stephen Graham Jones - The Only Good Indians
18. Marcus Aurelius -Meditations
♥19. Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove ♥
20. J. R. Hogan - The Lost Girls

Update message 44.
10 books added.
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And round 6 done (post 110). One more this year?

1. Garth Nix - The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
2. Linda Castillo - Fallen
3. Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
4. Kirsty Greenwood - Big Sexy Love
5. Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
6. Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
7. Gregg Andrew Hurwitz - You're Next
8. Caroline Kepnes - You
9. Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
10. V.S. Naipaul - In a Free State
11. Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
12. Octavia E. Butler - Dawn
13. Kate Wilhelm - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
14. Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons

Didn't quite make the 7th round. Still, 134 new authors in one year isn't too bad :D

Updated message #26
Level: Devil May Care - 20 or more
24/20 Read

FINISHED

Devil May Care = 20 or more!
READ: 42

1. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 1/10/21
2. Bunny by Mona Awad 1/14/21
3. Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay 2/20/21
4. See Them Run by Marion Todd 3/15/21
5. Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent 3/28/21
6. Bunny Drop by Linda Kozar 5/5/21
7. Q by Ben Mezrich 5/5/21
8. Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey 5/8/21
9. Motherhood Out Loud by Leslie Ayvazian 5/9/21
10. Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss 5/13/21
11. People Like Her - Ellery Lloyd 5/16/21
12. Scone Cold Killer by Lena Gregory 5/16/21
13. Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse by Harper Lin 5/19/21
14. A Forest, or a Tree by Tegan Moore 5/31/21
15. Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain by Cat Rambo 5/31/31
16. The White-Throated Transmigrant by E. Lily Yu 5/31/21
17. Whiskey Sour by J.A. Konrath 5/31/21
18. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness 6/4/21
19. I Left The House Today! by Cassandra Calin 6/11/21
20. Murder at the Taffy Shop by Maddie Day 6/12/21
21. The Approach by Mark O'Rowe 6/21/21
22. From Garden To Grave by Rickie Blair 6/26/21
23. One of the Boys by Daniel Magariel 7/4/21
24. Night of the Mannequins: A Tor.com Original by Stephen Graham Jones 7/18/21
25. How to Transcend a Happy Marriage by Sarah Ruhl 7/22/21
26. Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace 7/26/21
27. Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer 8/15/21
28. Trick or Murder, by Rosie A. Point 9/2/21
29. Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill 9/4/21
30. The Test by Sylvain Neuvel 9/10/21
31. Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson 9/11/21
32. Our Little Secret by Roz Nay 9/18/21
33. The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle 9/25/21
34. Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney 9/30/21
35. Grits in the Graveyard by J.L.Collins 10/8/21
36. Conjurer’s Rites byJen Brown 10/9/21
37. The Little Witch by M. Rickert 10/9/21
38. Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson 10/16/21
39. Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix 10/31/21
40. Fan Club by J.C. Isabella 11/30/21
41. Cook90: The 30-Day Plan for Faster, Healthier, Happier Meals by David Tamarkin 12/1/21
42. Murder on Thames by Matthew Costello 12/3/2021

New to You, Round 3: Devil May Care

1. All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
2. Dune by Frank Herbert
3. Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
4. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
5. Much Ado About You by Samantha Young
6. Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
7. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
8. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
9. Death in the Castle by Pearl S. Buck
10. Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
11. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies by Caitlin Doughty
12. Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe
13. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
14. Vampires, Hearts, & Other Dead Things by Margie Fuston
15. Jade City by Fonda Lee
16. The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
17. Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko
18. The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks
19. Comeuppance Served Cold by Marion Deeds
20. Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky