Top Ten New-to-me Authors in 2023

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is the top new authors I read in 2023. I counted 45 authors that were new to me in 2023. Here were my favorites:

1. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (debut novel)
2. The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff (debut novel)
3. The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
4. Foster by Claire Keegan
5. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy (debut novel)
6. Talking at Night by Claire Daverly (debut novel)
7. The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland
8. The Book Eaters by Suryi Dean (debut novel)
9. Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torsz (debut novel)
10. The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper

Other notable authors I read this yearwere Ani Kayode Somtochukwu (And Then He Sang a Lullaby), Hala Alyan (The Arsonists’ City), Elif Shafak (The Island of Missing Trees), Claire Jimenez (What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez), Natalie Haynes (Stone Blind), Jacqueline Crooks (Fire Rush), and Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time).

I didn’t include nonfiction on this list, because it felt too hard to compare fiction and nonfiction, but some favorite new authors I discovered this year were Edith Eger, Nadia Murad, Sally Jane Smith, and Elisabeth Tova Bailey.

Which authors did you discover in 2023?