Debut

The first book by an author

The Hate U Give
Lessons in Chemistry
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Silent Patient
Homegoing
The Girl on the Train
The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
The Night Circus
Such a Fun Age
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
There There
Black Cake
My Dark Vanessa
Escaping Reality by Lisa Renee JonesThe 5th Wave by Rick YanceyReal by Katy EvansBranded by Abi KetnerThe Law of Attraction by N.M. Silber
New Series (2013)
1,030 books — 2,291 voters
We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah FaizalDescendant of the Crane by Joan HeWicked Saints by Emily A. DuncanThe Devouring Gray by C.L. HermanThe Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad
YA Debuts 2019
157 books — 916 voters

Real by Katy EvansDriven by K. BrombergBully by Penelope DouglasBeautiful Bastard by Christina LaurenCollide by Gail McHugh
Romance Debuts 2013
470 books — 3,817 voters

Wings of Ebony by J. ElleMina and the Undead by Amy McCawLast One to Die by Cynthia MurphyNecropolis by Bethan  EvansThe Girl Who... by Andreina Cordani
YA Debuts 2021
86 books — 282 voters
Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn HamiltonEver the Hunted by Erin SummerillBlackhearts by Nicole CastromanIvory and Bone by Julie EshbaughThe Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
YA Debuts 2016
255 books — 1,366 voters

Martijn Benders
If you want to be a poet, there is no greater mistake you could make than to publish whatever work you have as soon as you can. Why? Well because your debut is the only shot you have. It should be made of dynamite. There is nothing worse - believe me - than to have an oeuvre with a mediocre debut, and likely you wont get that far at all, and you will wait for reviews that wont come, just a horrible idea really. I don't need tell this to the rare and extreme talents - they are like a force of nat ...more
Martinus Hendrikus Benders

Elise Valenti
People say that your life flashes before your eyes before you die, but they’re wrong. It’s not your life that passes before you, it’s the regrets that do.
Heather Jacobs, We the People

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