Today’s TTT is authors from 2023 who were new to us. But first, a tease!
CUSTOMER: Doesn’t it bother you, being surrounded by books all day? I
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think I’d be paranoid they were all going to jump off the shelves and kill
me.
BOOKSELLER: . . .
And now, authors who I read for the first time last year, but will read again..
Gordon S. Wood, a historian with a focus on early America.
Rhett Bruno & Jaime Castle. I include these two together because they did two collaborations in a dark-fantasy western series called Black Badge. They also have some SF.
Sarah Ruden. A classicist who did an appraisal of Paul, and who has produced her own translation of the Gospels.
Dan Jones. A medieval historian, who I introduced myself to via his two most-outlying works: a novel and an interpretation of a medieval poem.
Will Storr and Jon Ronson. Both journalists who focus on ‘weird’ topics like ghosts, cults, etc.
Fredrik Backman. Found his Man Called Ove via the American movie based on it, and enjoyed it enormously.
Kristin Hannah. I read her Four Winds, a novel of the Dust Bowl, and was blown away. (No pun intended.)
Lee Child, Jim Butcher. Both authors of series that have a big following, but which I was just investigating.
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I still need to read Backman’s book and see the film based on it. It sounds so good.
Thanks for stopping by earlier.
Lydia
There are two — the Swedish movie and the Tom Hanks movie. I’m told the Hanks one is more upbeat.
Backman and Hannah are great authors. I loved Beartown and Anxious People from Backman. I’ve read almost all of Hannah’s and my favorites are Winter Garden and Firefly Lane.
Anxious People did catch my eye as a next one to read. 🙂
Ooh, always nice to run across non-fiction recommendations; a lot of bloggers never touch non-fiction, but I’ve grown to love it.
Yes! Nonfiction blogger are rare specimens in the blogosphere.
Thanks so much for dropping by! Your science books alone are adding to my TBR list. 😀
The only one of these authors I have read is Fredrik Backman. Oh, I like reading books about the depression, so I’ll have to check out The Four Winds.
I’ve read two of Backman’s novels (ANXIOUS PEOPLE and A MAN CALLED OVE) and loved both of them. I also have really enjoyed Hannah’s recent novels. I’m glad you found them both and all these others.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
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