Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish
This week’s list:
Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read In 2014
Think the year 2014 will be the year I went outside my comfort zone and tried new authors and in some way even new genres (at least sub-genres).
The ten that comes first to mind is as follows:
1. Jodie Meadows (Incarnate).
This year I stared with the wonderful, magical and almost poetic Incarnate and I fell love with Jodie Meadows beautiful writing. I read a couple of review on some book blogs and together with an awesome front cover I just had to give it a try.
2. A.G. Howard (Splintered).
This is another book with an awesome cover, and as it was a retelling of the classic Alice in wonderland, how could I possibly resist. It is truly a stunning, peculiar, odd and somewhat disturbed (in a good way) story!
3. Veronica Roth (Divergent)
I’ve sort of missed when everyone seemed to read all in the Divergent series, so I waited for the movie and then picked up the book, now the long wait for the Insurgent movie so I can read that book as well.
4. Dan Wells (Partials)
I can’t really remember what made me pick up this one, think I might have seen some recommendation on Goodreads. But I’m happy that I did, just love it. A post-apocalyptic world, walking in the ruins of NY, the human race at a threshold, survival and sacrifice, with conspiracy’s and a kick-ass female lead, can’t really go wrong with that.
5. Ramez Naam (Nexus)
Did some browsing at the local sci-fi shop, looking for something new and different to read, it’s been ages since I read a cyberpunk novel and this one really surprised me and in a good way.
6. Anne Greenwood Brown (Lies Beneath)
Never, ever I thought I would read a book about mermaids! I couldn’t imagine that I would like it as much as I did. Love this series!
7. Courtney Walker (On the fringe)
A ghost and YA love story, not my normal cup of tea, but I liked it, and it was a nice change of pace to read a standalone novel.
8. Michelle Hodkin (the Unbecomming of Mara Dyer)
There have been quite a mixed of reviews, both good ones and a lot of not so good. But the cover is so breathtaking and the book, well it wasn’t what I thought it would be, but I liked it.
9. Kimberly Derting (the Body Finder)
This one is one of those books just sitting on my to-read-list for what feelt like ages, why did it take so long for me to discover this charming paranormal YA series.
10. Heather Anastasiu (Glitch)
Besides a cool cover I liked the story, future dystopian society, sort of a young adult version of Georg Orwells 1984 mixed with the movie Equilibrium.
Ska jag välja en bok så blir det självklart Flugorna herre av William Golding. Boken behöver väl knappas någon större presentation, denna ikoniska bok som inspirerat flera generationer av författare och filmskapare. I grunden en filosofisk bok om hur ett samhälle byggs upp och styrs, vad som ger makt, vem har denna makt och vem skapar lagar och utdelar straff.
the road so far... 