2017 New Author Challenge

This is my eighth year taking part in the New Author Challenge hosted by Literary Escapism.  They don't seem to have posted a sign up for 2017 yet but hopefully that will come soon, in the meantime I'm just creating this thread to keep a track for myself of the new authors I read this year.

As much as I have many favourite authors on my auto buy list I still love to discover new authors.  This is also great to discover both brand new and well known authors that I haven't got around to trying yet.

If you'd like to join me and take part in the challenge you can sign up here.

2010 - I tried 104 new authors
2011 - I tried 115 new authors
2012 - I tried 130 new authors
2013 - I tried 96 new authors
2014 - I tried 51 new authors
2015 - I tried 54 new authors
2016 - I tried 45 new authors

I will update this post with a list of the new authors I try and include links to my reviews

1. Melt for Me (Against All Odds book 3) - Elisabeth Naughton (Novella in the All I Want for Christmas Anthology)
2. Quick Trick (Rough Riders Hockey book 1) - Skye Jordan (Novella in the All I Want for Christmas Anthology)
3. Frostblood - Elly Blake
4. The Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden
5. Chester 5000-XYV - Jess Fink
6. Caraval - Stephanie Garber
7. The Merman's Kiss - Tamsin Ley
8. Ariadnis - Josh Martin
9. The Mills & Boon Modern Girl's Guide to Turning into Your Mother - Ada Averse
10. Wanted & Wired - Vivien Jackson
11. The Thorn and the Blossom - Theodora Goss
12. The Seafarer's Kiss - Julia Ember
13. Art Life - Bev Speight
14. Alice in Brexitland - Leavis Carroll
15. Royal Bastards - Andrew Shvarts
16. Berlin and Potsdam - Bernhard Schneidewind
17. Way Down Deep - Charlotte Stein & Cara McKenna (this was my first book by Charlotte Stein)
18. Lonely Planet Pocket Berlin - Andrea Schulte-Peevers
19. Bronze Gods - A.A. Aguirre
20. Glory - Ana Jolene
21. Blackwing - Ed McDonald
22. The Alchemists of Loom - Elise Kova
23. Game of Thrones Mask: The House Lannister Lion - Steve Wintercroft (Craft Book)
24. The Epic Crush of Genie Lo - F.C. Yee
25. Destined to Live: One Woman's War, Life, Loves Remembered - Sabina van Der Linden-Wolanski with Diana Bagnall
26. Mask of Shadows - Linsey Miller
27. A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars - Yaba Badoe
28. Daughter of the Burning City - Amanda Foody
29. The Black Lily - Juliette Cross
30. The Bastard Legion - Gavin G. Smith
31. The Dragon's Playlist - Laura Bickle
32. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
33. The Bone Witch - Rin Chupeco
34. Wicked Ugly Bad - Cassandra Gannon
35. Witchborn - Nicholas Bowling
36. Little Miss Busy Surviving Motherhood - Roger Hargreaves
37. Not Safe for Work - Charlotte Stein
38. The Night Before Christmas - Clement C Moore
39. Tangleweed and Brine - Deirdre Sullivan
40. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon (Originally published in the UK as Cross Stitch)
41. Even the Darkest Stars - Heather Fawcett
42. The Last Namsara - Kristen Ciccarelli
43. Otherworld - Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller
44. IncrediBuilds: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Niffler Deluxe Book and Model Set - Ramin Zahed
45. The Golden Umbrella: Nepalese Folktales - Eva Kipp, Hem Rai, Dilip Sapkota, Rajendra Bajracharya & Parmeswari Shrestha
46. Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium - Paul Kidby