Five Fridays: Authors I Discovered This Year

After creating a new years resolution to read more books (and succeeding for once) I also picked up to habit of buying more books. I created the resolution to read all the unread books on my shelf and have seemed to acquired way too many books in the process. But because of this I also discovered some wonderful books and authors.

Ernest Cline

As Ready Player One was being made into a film I borrowed the book off a friend. I enjoyed the book so much I’m thinking of picking up the other book he wrote and then also more video game based books in general!

L.L. McNeil

McNeil reached out to me to read her debut book Moroda and then got me hooked. I’m avidly awaiting her second book by stalking her twitter on a bi-weekly basis.

C.F./Conn Iggulden

I read Iggulden’s new fantasy book, Darien and loved it. So my thinking is that since I liked the writing style, his historical fiction should also be good. Either way I’m going to give it a try to try and get into historical fiction a bit more!

V.E. Schwab

I have A Darker Shade of Magic currently sitting in my TBR pile next to my bed. I also follow Schwab on twitter as she’s entertaining as a person as well as an author. I’m looking forward to diving into her books next year.

Cassandra Clare

Surprisingly… I never read Clare’s books when I was in the target audience and I only started  her series’ this year. Even though I’m 90% sure I had heard of them somehow.  I have many mixed feelings about Clare’s books as they are both good and bad in places. But she is still an author I discovered this year.