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Melissa at Literary Escapism is hosting her 4th annual New Authors Reading Challenge and, since it’s new-to-me, rather than new-to-market authors, I’m in.

I do plan to touch base with a lot of familiar writers this year, by working on my TBR pile, but out of 150 books I must surely be able to read 25 new-to-me authors. So that’s my goal.

How about you? Are you staying with old friends this year or expanding your horizons with new-to-you authors?

JANUARY:
1. Bantock, Nick: Griffin and Sabine trilogy
2. Schwarz, John Burnham : Northwest Corner
3. Wingfield, Jenny: The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
4. McKay, Ami: The Virgin Cure
5. Pratchett, Terry: The Carper People
6. Coady, Lynn: The Antagonist
7. Walker, Sally M.: Blizzard of Glass
8. Beecher Stowe, Harriet: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

FEBRUARY
9. Grenville, Kate: The Secret River
10. Kurelek, William: A Prairie Boy’s Winter
11. McKay, Dr. Gary D.: A Shortage of Bodies
12. Hugo, Nancy: Seeing Trees
13. Twead, Victoria: Chickens, Mules, & Two Old Fools

MARCH
14. Speller, Elizabeth: The Return of Captain John Emmett
15. Thoreau, Henry David: Walden
16. Kotler, Steven: A Small Furry Prayer
17. Edugyen, Esi: Half-Blood Blues
18. Chesterton, G.K.: The Innocence of Father Brown
19. Eccles, Marjorie: Broken Music
20. Wolfe, Inger Ash: The Calling
21. Harbach, Chad: The Art of Fielding

APRIL
22. Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy
23. Hewitt, Robert G.: Winnie & Gurley
24. Harris, Jane: Gillespie & I
25. McCleen, Grace: The Land of Decoration

MAY
26. Kaufman, Andrea Kayne: Oxford Messed Up
27. Fox, Ian: Promise Me Eternity
28. Asher, Jay: 13 Reasons Why
29. Johnston, Wayne: The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
30. Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White
31. Law, Phyllida: Notes to My Mother-in-Law

JUNE
32. Philips, Lila: Murder is a Crafty Business
33. Humphrey, Mrs.: Manners for Women
34. Allingham, Margery: The Crime at Black Dudley
35. Spillane, Mickey: One Lonely Night
36. Leonard, Annie: The Story of Stuff
37. Stenson, Fred: Lonesome Hero
38. Tomaiuolo, Nicholas G.: UContent

JULY
39. Fischer, Cher: Falling Into Green
40. Ferguson, Will: 419
41. Barnes, Julian: The Sense of an Ending
42. Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
43. Livesay, Margot: The Flight of Gemma Hardy

AUGUST
44. Scanlan, Lawrence: Heading Home: On Starting a New Life in a Country Place
45. Boyne, John: The Absolutist
46. Anderson-Dergatz, Gail: A Recipe for Bees
47. Savage, Sam: Firmin
48. Cole, Trevor: Practical Jean
49. Godden, Rumer: The Dolls’ House

SEPTEMBER
50. Sherrill, Steven: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
51. Wilder, Thornton: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
52. Lawson, Mary: Crow Lake
53. Marshall, William: Yellowthread Street

OCTOBER
54. Rushdie, Salman: Midnight’s Children
55. Vanderpoole, Claire: Moon Over Manifest
56. McKay, Leo Jr.: Twenty-Six
57. Llewellyn, Richard: How Green Was My Valley
58. George, Jean Craighead: Julie of the Wolves

NOVEMBER
59. Camus, Albert: The Stranger
60. Glass, Julia: Three Junes
61. Innes, Michael: Death at the President’s Lodging
62. DeWitt, Patrick: The Sisters Brothers
63. Christie, Michael: The Beggar’s Garden
64. Sachar, Louis: Holes
65. Waugh, Evelyn: Men at Arms
66. Trudeau, Pierre Elliott: Memoirs

DECEMBER
67. Powers, Richard: The Echo Maker
68. Gowdy, Barbara: Mr. Sandman
69. Ondaatje, Michael: Cat’s Table
70. Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
71. Foran, Charles: Mordecai: the Life and Times