Once upon a time, I thought that I should stick with just the authors that I knew I loved to avoid overflowing my TBR. Granted this was long before Goodreads existed and I didn’t live a life that revolved around books on a regular basis. And thankfully it didn’t last long and I came to my senses, otherwise I would have never found some of my favorite authors. So now I commit myself to finding new authors to enjoy each year. Some of them become new favorites, others I never read from again, but they all take me in new and different directions.

Here are all of the authors I read for the first time in 2024:

Sara Ackerman
Samantha Armstrong
Echo Brown
Rachel Caine
Julia Cameron

Jillian Cantor
Genevieve Cogman
Manda Collins
Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Mason Deaver

Jennifer Dugan
Philip Ellis
Janet Evanovich
Elle Everhart
Tina Fey

Kathleen Flinn
Kristina Forest
Diana Gallagher
Brittany Gibbons
Maurene Goo

Michelle Goodman
Carlyn Greenwald
Jennifer Gruenke
Mark Haddon
Alexis Hall

Jenny Han
Sarah Henstra
Justinian Huang
Adiba Jaigirdar
Abigail Johnson

George M. Johnson
Jason June
Claire Kann
Brigid Kemmerer
Ibram X. Kendi

Brendan Kiely
Alexandra Kiley
T.J. Klune
Sarah Kuhn
Isabelle Lafleche

Jackie Lau
Jayci Lee
Daven McQueen
Richelle Mead
Jonathan Mooney

Tehlor Kay Mejia
Laura Taylor Namey
Patrick Ness
Celeste Ng
Sophie Nicholls

Roan Parrish
Ben Philippe
Susan Piver
Shivaun Plozza
NoNieqa Ramos

C. Pierce Salguero
Adam Sass
Gretchen Schreiber
Kylie Scott
Cat Sebastian

Austin Siegemund-Broka
Jennifer E. Smith
Anna Sortino
Amy Spalding
Phil Stamper

Kimberley Starr
James L. Sutter
Dustin Thao
Paige Tyler
Jonny Garza Villa

Maya Van Wagenen
Martha Waters
Emily Wibberley
Jen Wilde
Amanda Woody

Ibi Zoboi

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