Top Ten Tuesday: Ten New-to-Me Authors I'm Hoping to LOVE This Year

It's been a couple weeks since I've participated in my favorite weekly meme, and I've missed it and all of my TTT friends! It's good to be back. 

Although I could probably do a Top 100 post with this week's topic—Top Ten Books I Never Reviewed—I'm going to go back to last week's Love Freebie instead. Since I'm always trying out new-to-me authors, I thought I'd highlight some I'm hoping to LOVE this year.

As always, Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana over at That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Ten New-to-Me Authors I Hope to LOVE in 2025

1. Chanel Cleeton—I've been meaning to read Cleeton's Cuba-inspired historical fiction novels for years.

2. Elle Cosimano—I started reading Finlay Donovan Is Killing It very early this morning while waiting for my daughter to arrive home from a weeklong school trip. It's been keeping me royally entertained since the first page. I've got the whole series downloaded on my Kindle—I see some series binge-reading in my near future!

3. Emily Critchley—Both of Critchley's dual-timeline mysteries sound like reads I would enjoy.

4. Veera Hiranandani—Hiranandani's middle-grade novels about kids of Indian descent struggling to find their place in the world sound intriguing to me.

5. Elise Hooper—Hooper's historical novels cover a lot of territory, from Little Women to the 1928 Olympics to Walt Disney's studio in the 1950s. I want to read all of them!

6. Elizabeth Macneal—Macneal's novels are all set in England in the 1800s. They sound unique and compelling.

7. Ginger Reno—Reno writes books based on her Cherokee heritage. She has a couple of picture books coming out soon. Her debut novel, a middle-grade book called Find Her, which is about a missing Indigenous woman and the young daughter who's desperate to find her, is getting lots of positive buzz.

8. Lauren E. Rico—Although her latest novel, a mystery titled After the Ocean, is the one getting all the attention right now, Rico isn't a debut author like I thought. She's written a number of women's fiction and romance books. After the Ocean and Familia are the ones I'm most interested in.

9. Katy Watson—Watson writes "Golden Age crime for modern times," which sounds right up my alley. Her Three Dahlia cozy mystery series features a trio of actresses who work together to catch killers. It sounds really fun.

10. Jane Yang—Yang's debut novel, The Lotus Shoes, came out in January. Set in 1800s China, it tells the story of two very different women who must work together to survive in the wake of a scandal that makes them both outcasts in an unforgiving society.

There you go, ten authors I'm hoping to LOVE this year. Have you read any of them? Which are your favorites? I'd truly love to know. Leave me a comment on this post and I will gladly return the favor on your blog.

Happy TTT!