Debut Novels: 2016 Favorites | Review

Susie — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:00:28 +0000

Three great blogs, Traveling with T, Estella’s Revenge, and GirlXOXO are hosting A Month of Favorites this holiday season. Today’s theme is “New to Me Authors.” I’m tweaking that to only include authors who were new to everyone this year with their debut novels. I read 19 debut novels in 2016 and considered 15 of them for this list. That’s a lot of wonderful new writing! It wasn’t easy, but I finally narrowed the list down to my 10 favorites. They’re listed in alphabetical order. Do I have a top pick out of all of these? I tried. Really, I did, but there is just too much great writing here! I loved each of these debuts for different reasons and look forward to reading many more novels by these ten new voices.

Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
Three reasons I loved it:

A villain you love to hate.
The story told in two times frames, meeting at the end.
The narrator! (I listened to this one on an Audible.)

Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Three reasons I loved it:

The Arctic in a post-apocalyptic world.
An aging-scientist caring for an abandoned child.
Communication as a basic human need.

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