Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week is all about authors we read for the first time in 2018. Last year I made a concerted effort to read more backlist, so I discovered a few more authors that everyone else had known about forever!

Neal Shusterman
I read both
Scythe and
Thunderhead in 2018 and I can't wait for
The Toll. I also intend to read
The Dry this year which he co-wrote with his son.
Pat Barker
I can't say Pat Barker's books have been on my radar in the past but I loved her retelling of The Iliad from Briseis's point of view.

Marisha Pessl
I had been meaning to read
Night Film for years but it was her YA debut that queue jumped to the top of my TBR last year.
Sarah Moss
Another author I'd been meaning to read for ages, I finally read and fell in love with
The Tidal Zone. I also read her latest book,
Ghost Wall.

Tade Thompson
Both
The Murders of Molly Southbourne and
Rosewater hit the spot, and I'm eagerly awaiting
The Rosewater Insurrection.
Cixin Liu
I've been quite slow off the mark with my Read the World project, but I knew I would tick China off with this brain workout of science fiction. I intend to continue the trilogy in 2019.

Victor Lavalle
I loved the darkness of
The Changeling and will definitely be seeking out more of his work.
Octavia Butler
Yeah, yeah, I'm extremely late to the party. I think I was a little scared of reading
Kindred and not liking it, but there was nothing to fear!

S.A. Chakraborty
I adored
The City of Brass and
The Kingdom of Copper is one of most my anticipated fantasies of the year.
Justina Ireland
I'd been aware of Justina through her blogging which made me pick up
Dread Nation. Hopefully the follow up will be out this year.
Which books by these authors would you recommend? Did you discover any great, new to you, authors last year?
I've heard a lot of good things about Ghost Wall.
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I tried Justina Ireland and Neal Shusterman for the first time last year. :)
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