Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week they provide a topic and you are free to use that topic and/or variations of that topic to make your top ten list. You don’t have to do all ten. Instead you can do three, five, fifteen, whatever you want. A full list of the weekly themes can be found here.

This week’s theme is New-to-Me Authors I Read In 2018. Going into this week’s theme I wasn’t really sure what new-to-me authors I had read last year. Luckily, Goodreads came in to save the day. Honestly, if it wasn’t for Goodreads I would have very little idea of what I read last year anyway.

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Everless (Everless #1) by Sara Holland – When I read this book last January I was amazed. Sometimes when you start a book you have it in your head what to expect from a debut author but I was completely wrong about Holland and her story swept me away.

Invictus by Ryan Graudin – Before I read Invictus as an audiobook in 2018 I had never so much as heard of the author. Since then, I had read this book three times, I loved it that much. It has become a source of comfort for me, a book to go back to time and again when the days are too much for me to handle.

Olmec Obituary (Dr. Pimms, Intermillenial Slueth #1) by L.J.M Owen – In 2017 I had spotted this book and yearned to read it but, at the time, I didn’t have a Kindle account and getting a hard copy of the book was far out of my price range. Last year I got my hands on the ebook and devoured it in just two sittings. I very much enjoyed this story and Owen’s writing flow and have already purchased the next book of the series to continue reading.

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Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King #1) by Tricia Levenseller – For several months I saw this book floating around getting all kinds of hype from the reading community. I had written it off as an overhyped book and not bothered with it. When I finally did read it I could have kicked myself for avoiding it for as long as I had. It was magnificent! This book and the second of the duology made me a Levenseller fan for life.

Heart of Iron (Heart of Iron #1) by Ashley Poston – I’ll be the first to say that it was odd for me to pick up this book (which I did on a whim) because sci-fi is not my usual genre. However, Poston drug my fantasy loving butt into space and I loved it. Sure, I had a few minor complaints with the book but I am still looking forward to its sequel’s release later this year.

An Ember in the Ashes (Ember Quartet #1) by Sabaa Tahir – *breathes heavily* This. Book. Was. Amazing. Here is yet another hyped book I had put off reading, assuming it wasn’t as good as people said. I fell in love with the characters of this story, the flow, the action, everything about it blew me away. Fantastic story and it has guaranteed that I will pick up every Tahir book she ever writes.

I could legitimately keep going on with this week’s theme for another dozen books but my raging headache and I need a nap. What are some of your favorite new-to-you authors from 2018? Did any of mine make your list?