2011 New Authors Challenge

2011 New Author Challenge is hosted on Literary Escapism. The guidelines are as described below :

Timeline : 1st January 2011 - 31st Dec 2011.

1. You do NOT need a blog to participate.
2. Books may overlap other challenges.
3. The authors must be new to you and preferably from novels.
4. You can pick to do either 15, 25 or 50 new authors.
5. Learn more and sign up here.

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Wrap-Up
I am targetting to read 15 authors new to me. The books I read for the challenge are :

1. Aiken, G. A.: Dragon Actually (Review)
2. Cashore, Kristin: Fire (Review)
3. Clare, Cassandra: Clockwork Angel (Review)
4. Cronin, Justin: The Passage (Review)
5. Farnsworth, Christopher: Blood Oath (Review)
6. Follett, Ken : The Pillars of the Earth (Review)
7. Giorello, Sibella: The Mountains Bow Down (Review)
8. Gregory, Philippa: The Queen's Fool (Review)
9. Kaplan, Mitchell James: By Fire, By Water (Review)
10. Larsson, Stieg: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Review)
11. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird (Review)
12. Lewis, Jon: Invasion (Review)
13. Lore, Pittacus: I Am Number Four (Review)
14. Stewart, Paul & Riddell, Chris: The Rook Trilogy (Review)
15. Yovanoff, Brenna: The Replacement (Review)

My Top 3 favorite reads are:


I'm added the next books in G.A. Aiken's Dragon Kin, Kristin Cashore's Seven Kingdoms, Christopher Farnsworh's The President's Vampire, Pittacus Lore's The Lorien Legacies and Justin Cronin's The Passage to my wish list. Besides which I've picked up more books by Philippa Gregory.