We’re back with another Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week’s topic is: Books I Want to Read by New to Me Authors (Share books from your to-read list that are written by authors you’ve never read before.)
If, like me, you’re as much of a book collector as you are a reader, there is no shortage of new-to-me authors that are sat on your TBR waiting patiently to be read. So, the hardship in coming up with today’s list wasn’t in finding authors to feature, it’s narrowing down names to a ‘top 10’ that I want to read. There’s absolutely no order to today’s list—I just looked through my shelves and picked whoever’s name jumped out at me first, lol. 😂 Let’s see who makes the cut!
John Wiswell
S. A. Cosby
Elise Kova
Grady Hendrix
Jordan Ifueko
Bell Hooks
Lily King
Emily Henry
Amy Lea
Rachel Lynn Solomon
Are any of these authors also new-to-you or are some your favourites? I know they’re all of different genres, but if you had to suggest, whose books do you think I should read first? 🤭
dinipandareads 
I also have John Wiswell on my tbr! I enjoyed Raybearer a lot, one of the few YA books I actually really rate still!
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Someone You Can Build a Nest In is such an intriguing title to me.
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Lol that is how I picked my list as well. I just have so many on my TBR!
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Grady Hendrix is one of my favorites, so I hope you enjoy!
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Weather Girl has such a cute cover. Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by earlier.
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I love Arcana Academy!! I want to read her others too. I can’t believe you still haven’t read Emily Henry!! haha Razor Blade Tears is so good but a very intense read! Heart the Lover is one that I keep going back and forth with. I have seen it around a lot more lately. I hope you get to all or most of these books!! ❤
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You’ve got some awesome books on this list!
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I have bell hooks on my list too, and I really want to read Someone You Can Build A Nest In. I love Emily Henry books. I hope you enjoy all of these!
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Emily Henry books are great! I still need to read Arcana Academy and Someone You Can Build a Nest In, too. Hopefully we’ll both get to them one day. 🙂
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Someone You Can Build a Nest In looks and sounds awesome! I hope you enjoy these books and authors when you can!
My Post:
https://thegentlechapter.blog/2026/07/14/top-ten-tuesday-new-to-me-authors/
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Set on me is also on my list, But I loved weather girl!
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On past week’s lists, I have seen Amy’s book and it does look cute! Hope you enjoy these all! Happy new-author-discoveries and thanks for visiting my list this week. 🙂
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I’m a big Emily Henry fan so I’d definitely recommend her books 😉 Elise Kova is one of those authors I’ve been wanting to try for ages. Hope you’ll end up loving all of these!
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Read Lily King’s Writers and Lovers before the book you’ve identified. It is a loosely related series.
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I’ve found John Wiswell always has interesting concepts and unique angles.
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I’ve seen Beach Read everywhere so I’m also hoping one day to give this author a chance, but judging by my evergrowing TBR, it’s gonna happen in 25 years 😅
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Weather Girl was such a great read! I keep meaning to read more by Solomon.
Here’s my TTT this week: https://readbakecreate.com/most-anticipated-holiday-releases-of-2026/
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Please read Beach Read! I also have Arcana Academy on my TBR but I’m pretty sure I read something self-published by that author a few years ago now.
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