Awesome & New Author Challenges

Alyce of At Home With Books is hosting this challenge again this year.  I've read some awesome authors participating in this challenge in 2010. 

•The challenge starts January 1, 2011 and ends December 31, 2011.
•Read works from authors that are completely new to you (you haven't read any of their writing before).
•Read books that have been recommended by friends, bloggers, or books that have been on your TBR forever because you have heard that the author's writing is fantastic.

Jackie of Literary Escapsim  is once again hosting the New Author Challenge. She writes:


The idea behind this is to find new authors that you’ve never tried before. They can be in your genre of choice or be brave and try something new. You never know what you’re going to like until you try it.

I am going to read a combined 75 authors for these challenges
 
Authors Read:
Abby McDonald
Alexandra Adornetto
Allegra Goodman
Anita Clenney
Anna Jean Mayhew
April Lindner
CC Humphries
CJ Box
Cara Hoffman
Caroline Leavitt
Catherine Mann.
Cathy Holton
Cecilia Galante
Chevy Stevens
Christina Meldrum
Ciji Ware
Cora Harrison
Daisy Goodwin
Daphne Kalotay
Darian Gee
David Sedaris
Deborah Bedford
Douglas Kennedy
Douglas Preston
Elisabeth Hyde
Elena M. Shapiro
Eoin Coffer
Erica James
Erin McKean
Grace Burrows
Hannah Robert McKinnon
Ian Rankin
Jackie Morse Kessler
Jennifer Close
Jennifer Haig
Jill Mansell
John Hart
John Verdon
Justin Evans
Karen Foxlee
Karen Harper
Karen Marie Moning
Kate Atkinson
Kate Morton
Kate Moss
Kathleen Grissom
Kathleen Kent
Kylie Brant
Laini Taylor
Lars Kepler
Laura Harrington
Leslie Daniels
Lincoln Childs
Lisa Genova
Lucy Christopher
M.J. McGrath
Mark Childress
Mary Ellen Dennis
Matt Haig
Michael Morpurgo
Michelle Hoover
Michelle Moran
Olivia deBelle Byrd
Patricia Flavey
Paullina Simmons
Peter Hannan
Peter Spielgelman
Rebecca Rasmussen
Roberta Gellis
Robert Cormier
Robin Carroll
Ruth Ann Nordin
SJ Watson
Sara Beitia
Sara Kate Lynch
Sarah Bird
Sarah Pekkanen
Shari Maurer
Sharon Dogar
Shirley Vernick
Susan Woods Fisher
Susanna Kearsley
Terry Kelhawk
Tom Franklin
Urban Waite
Wendy Toliver
Will Allison
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