Ten New To Me Authors I Discovered in 2024

I’m linking up with Top Ten Tuesday, which was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Check out upcoming Top Ten themes on Jana’s blog,


Every year I try to pick up books by “new to me” authors, and last year I found some good ones. Below are ten books by authors I finally got around to reading. I’m also sharing a book by each author that I’d like to read (some of them are 2025 releases). Here they are in alphabetical order:

Katherine Arden

Read: The Warm Hands of Ghosts | Want to read: The Bear and the Nightingale

Nathan Ballingrud

Read: Crypt of the Moon Spider | Want to read: The Strange

Audrey Burges

Read: A House Like An Accordion | Want to read: The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone

C.J. Cooke

Read: A Haunting in the Arctic | Want to read: The Ghost Woods

Paulette Kennedy

Read: The Devil and Mrs. Davenport | Want to read: The Artist of Blackberry Grange

Josh Malerman

Read: Incidents Around the House | Want to read: Bird Box

Andy Marino

Read: The Swarm | Want to read: It Rides a Pale Horse

Premee Mohamed

Read: The Butcher of the Forest | Want to read: The Annual Migration of Clouds

Sara Raasch

Read: The Nightmare Before Kissmas | Want to read: Go Luck Yourself

Stephanie Wrobel

Read: The Hitchcock Hotel | Want to read: Darling Rose Gold

What authors did you read for the first time last year?

Posted January 28, 2025 by Tammy in Top Ten Tuesday / 19 Comments


19 responses to “Ten New To Me Authors I Discovered in 2024

  1. Sophie @BewareOfTheReader

    I agree with you on Katherine Arden! I read The Warm hands of Ghosts and want to read more!

  2. I’m so surprised that Josh Malerman was new to you last year! Based on how much horror you read, I would have thought you’d read all his books already! Great list! I think Katherine Arden is so talented — I loved Warm Hands of Ghosts, and definitely recommend The Bear & the Nightingale.

  3. You already mentioned us having Katherine Arden in common but we have C.J. Cooke as well, she’s one of the authors I’ve got saved for part two of my post. I also read Darling Rose Gold in the past and loved it so majorly need to pick up The Hitchcock Hotel soon. It’s funny how we’ve had reverse experiences with two of these authors. I hope you enjoy all the books on your TBR whenever you get to them.

  4. Nice! That’s quite a few new authors. I’ve had The Bear and the Nightingale high up on my TBR for far too long and have yet to get to it. I keep picking other ones over it. But one day I’m determined to try it. 🙂

  5. Barb @ Booker T's Farm

    Great list and it’s always fun to find new authors. I’ve read The Nesting by C.J. Cooke and have several others on my TBR. I always mix the author up with C.J. Tudor though.

  6. Literary Feline

    Several of these are on my TBR but I have yet to read any of these authors, other than CJ Cooke (I read her Lighthouse Witches and really enjoyed it). I have heard only great things about Katherine Arden’s books. It looks like you found some great authors to try in 2024!

  7. I love Katherine Arden so much I even read the first of her middle grade series and it was really good too! She’s becoming one of my favorite authors for sure

  8. Hope you enjoy The Bear and the Nightingale if you do find time to read it. I’d love to reread that whole trilogy at some point, I remember it being really good.

    I read my first C. J. Cooke last year too, The Lighthouse Witches 😀

  9. An interesting selection of authors! The only one I’ve read is Katherine Arden. That said – there were a tranche of new-to-me authors I discovered last year that I’d like to share:)).

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