Top Ten Tuesday - Top Ten New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2013

Welcome back to Paper Worlds and Swirls of Ink.  The Broke and the Bookish created this feature and each week there is a different theme. This week we are talking about the Top Ten authors that I read this year. Let's get started!
These authors are put in no particular author, I really just enjoyed them all, so they're just randomly put into a list of 10. 





no. 10 - Victoria Scott, the Dante Walker series
I love the Dante Walker series. Victoria Scott threw every YA cliche out the window and wrote a really awesome series with a hilarious and awesome male protagonist, a female lead who's not described as being perfect or beautiful without her knowing. These characters are lifelike, they're funny, and they've got a heck of a lot to do in their series so check these books out.






no. 9 - Rick Riordan, the Percy Jackson series
I read Percy Jackson this year and was introduced to Rick Riordan's Greek mythology infused world. It's epic, and it spans several series, so I would recommend Percy Jackson, and I'm definitely looking forward to reading Heroes of Olympus sometime.






no. 8 - Maria V. Snyder, the Study series
I read the Poison Study series this year and fell in love! There are some amazing characters, with Yelena, Valek, Ari, Janco, just everyone in general made an awesome cast. And news! I have wonderful, wonderful news! Maria V. Snyder is expanding the Study series! She is creating 3 more books, and the first is releasing in 2014! I loved the Study series, and I can't wait to see what the second story arc is since the first was spectacuarly done!






no. 7 - Aimee Agresti, the Gilded Wings series
Aimee Agresti created a really unique supernatural world for the Gilded Wings series. This idea that she centered her books around is something I hadn't seen before, and she presents it really well in the Gilded Wings series. I'm really glad I checked out such a unique series this year!




no. 6 - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

I finally read TFiOS this year. Wow, what a world to read, and how much it affected me in only one book! This is really something special here. In all honesty, while reading this I would have to set the book down and just pause in awe of some of the lines written. It's something beautiful. I laughed, I cried, I fell in love with this world.






no. 5 - Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
If anyone could create an amazing, noteworthy, beautiful world, it's Erin Morgenstern. The Night Circus was fantastic. She wrote such life into the setting and characters that it felt like something that had actually happened, with people that came to life.

no. 4 - A.G. Howard, Splintered

I think A.G. Howard's books are featured almost weekly on this blog. Guessed that it's my favorite book yet? In all honesty, though, this is an awesome book. A.G. writes beautifully, and it made her already amazing plot and characters even better.

no. 3 - Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

This book was completely unexpected for me. I thought it would be a creepy, somewhat interesting book. Instead, I found a fantastic world beautifully complemented with the photos interspersed throughout. 

no. 2 - Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

I haven't read a book that sucker punched me in the gut at its ending (that I certainly did not see coming, by the by!) and it was really well written. I really loved Ruby's character, and she stood out as a strong but not invincible narrator. She felt real, and the rest of the characters were also really great in bringing the story to life. I have plans to read the novella In Time and the sequel Never Fade shortly!

no. 1 - Bethany Frenette, Dark Star

This is a really refreshing YA read, and I haven't heard many people talk about it. I know Sunny's heard of it because I gushed about it to her for about two weeks straight after I finished it. Initially it really intrigued me- superhero YA. It's so much more than a really interesting label, and I would definitely recommend you pick this up and the sequel, Burn Bright, comes out in 2014!








So there are some awesome authors whose books I discovered this year. How about you? Any new ones or are some of these on your list?


From a paper world,
V