2010 New Author Reading Challenge Wrapup

At the beginning of 2010, I joined in on Jackie of Literary Escapism's New Author Reading Challenge with the goal of reading 50 new authors this year.   Surprisingly, I reached that goal.  I enjoyed discovering and reading a great many new authors this year.  The books and new authors I read are:

1. Poetics - Aristotle
2. Boomerang - Alan Hutcheson
3. The Mists of Avalon - Marian Zimmer Bradley
4. Promise Me- Harlan Coben
5. The Last Surgeon - Michael Palmer 
6. The Forgotten Legion - Ben Kane
7. The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
8. A Ship Possessed - Alton Gansky
9. Soul Catcher - Leah Bridger
10. The Last Ember - Daniel Levin
11. The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
12. Shimmer - David Morrell
13. Under the Dome - Stephen King
14. The Mayo Clinic Diet
15. Keeping the Feast - Paula Butturini (review book)
16. Don't Look Behind You - Lois Duncan
17. The Scarlet Lion - Elizabeth Chadwick
18. Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
19. City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
20. Nausea - Jean  Paul Sartre
21. The Scarlet and the Black - J.D. Gallagher 
22. Young Bess - Margaret Irwin
23.  Mr Darcy Broke My Heart -  Beth Pattilo
24. People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks 
25. Endgame - Samuel Beckett
26. The Lumby Lines -  Gail Fraser
27. Certain Prey - John Sandford
28. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
29. The Killing of Mindy Quintana - Jeffrey Cohen
30. Black Water Rising - Attica Lock (Review book)
31. The Silent Cry - Kenzaburo Oe 
32. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
33. Shadow Bound - Erin Kellison 
34. Heart of Lies - M.L. Malcolm
35. Shapeshifters 1 and 2 - Susan Helene Gottfried (e-book)
36. The Great Lover - Jill Dawson 
37. www.wake - Robert J. Sawyer (e-book)
38. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
39. 206 Bones - Kathy Reichs
40. Lumby on the Air - Gail Fraser
41. The Lace Makers of Glenmara - Heather Barbieri
42. The Rembrandt Affair - Daniel Silva
43. Charmed and Dangerous - Toni McGee Causey
44. The Reincarnationist - M.J. Rose
45. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffennegger
46. Offworld - Robin Parrish 
47. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
48. Against All Odds - Irene Hannon
49. Tempest Rising - Nicole Peeler 
50. The Silent Gift - Michael Landon Jr.
51. Infinite Days - Rebecca Maizel
52. Wizard's Last Rule - Terry Goodkind
53. Book of Souls - Glenn Cooper
54. My Soul to Lose - Rachel Vincent (ebook)
55. Marked - P.C. Cast (ebook)
56. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
57. Hope Undaunted - Julie Lessman
58. Magic in the Wind (Drake sister #1) - Christine Feehan
59. Bitten - Kelley Armstrong
60. The Watchman - Robert Crais 
61. Emotional Intensity in Gifted Children - Christine Fonseca 
62. The Fault Tree - Louise Ure
63. Tyger Tyger - Kersten Hamilton 
64. Stormwalker - Allyson James
65. Carry On Mr. Bowditch - Jean Lee Latham (read aloud with James) 
66. The Iron Hunt - Marjorie M. Lui (e-book) 
67. Deeper Than The Dead - Tami Hoag

I'll be signing up to give it another go in 2011, except I'm going to be a bit more conservative and go with 15 new authors. 


What new authors have you discovered this year?