Favorite New to You Authors of 2004

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Tue, 12-28-2004 - 2:00pm

So glad you discovered (author's name/s) in '04?


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Tue, 12-28-2004 - 2:23pm
I discovered Kelley Armstrong, Alexander McCall Smith and Patricia McKillip!
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Tue, 12-28-2004 - 2:57pm

So glad I discovered Mitch Albom, Dan Brown, Jennifer Chiaverini, and Diane Mott Davidson just to name a few:)

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Wed, 12-29-2004 - 2:24am
Sophie Kinsella (have finished all her books and am anxiously awaiting the next) and Jodi Picoult (still have lots of her stuff to read)
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Wed, 12-29-2004 - 9:56am

Clive Barker and Bentley Little, so far everything I've read by these two authors has been great!



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Wed, 12-29-2004 - 1:37pm

Supernatural/Horror author CLIVE BARKER!!!!!

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Thu, 12-30-2004 - 3:52pm

Without looking back at my book journal, these are some that come to mind:

Caroline Leavitt - she wrote the fabulous Girls in Trouble about an open adoption that doesn't quite work out as expected and Coming Back to Me about a young woman who slips into a coma after childbirth and the consequences on her husband, child, and sister.

Christopher Moore - author of the hilarious The Stupidest Angel. I will definitely be reading more of his this year:)

Lan Samantha Chang - author of Inheritance about a family in China, before, during and after WWII.

Peter Hamil - author of Snow in August about a Catholic boy and a rabbi who develop a friendship in Brooklyn during the post WWII years. Fabulous!

Luoung Ung - author of the brilliant memoir First They Killed My Father about her family in Cambodia during Pol Pot's regime. Very powerful.

John Shors - author of the amazing Beneath a Marble Sky. I gave this to my mother for Christmas. She started and finished it on Christmas Day and promptly gave it to my father to read. To my surprise, he's really enjoying it also.

Harper Lee - I just read To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time this month. What can I say? Incredible.

I know there are plenty more. This has been a marvelous year of reading for me.:)

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Thu, 12-08-2005 - 9:42pm

I'll assume you mean 2005 and will answer accordingly

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Fri, 12-09-2005 - 6:08am

Good question! This year I discovered Elizabeth Berg and Dean Koontz. I've never been into the horror genre and I have to say that his latest stuff is wonderful, but I'm not sure I'd exactly call it horror. More like suspense. But he writes with such humor and heart. His gift with words and description is terrific. I've started with this newest ones and I'm kind of moving backwards. I can't wait to read the new one 'Forever Odd'. He wrote a book a few years ago called 'Odd Thomas' and it was such a hit he used the same character again. Anyway, I've read some other new authors, but these two are on the top of my list.

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Fri, 12-09-2005 - 10:42am

Jackie ~


Thanks for somehow resurrecting this thread from last December ;-)


I made a new thread for 2005, thanks for refreshing this tho.


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Fri, 12-09-2005 - 11:38am
I don't know how I managed to revive this, Teri

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