Thanks,Sycorax Pine, for hosting this challenge again.
The rules were to read at least SIX books by an author we had never read before and whose work we substantially regretted not having read yet.
The 11 authors below were on my tbr list for quite awhile. Of those 11 authors and books, I probably most enjoyed Dracula. I loved it! I also had some other authors I read along the way and listed them below my main choices.
My choices:
- Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
- Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White
- Children of Men by P.D. James
- Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Anne-Marie MacDonald
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- Breath by Tim Winton
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
- Sky Burial by Xinran
- Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
In addition, I also had these new author discoveries:
- Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore
- Blankets by Craig Thompson
- The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Darkness Visible by William Styron
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel
- The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- Breath by Tim Winton
- Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
- The Pets by Bragi Olafsson
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
- Goldengrove by Francine Prose
- X-Kai by Asami Tohjoh
- Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
- Somebody Else’s Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage
- The Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek
- Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
- The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez
- Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Lara Vapnyar
