Debut

The first book by an author

The Hate U Give
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Lessons in Chemistry
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Silent Patient
Homegoing
The Girl on the Train
The Night Circus
The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
Yesteryear
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Such a Fun Age
Black Cake
My Dark Vanessa
Divergent by Veronica RothCity of Bones by Cassandra ClareFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingGabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard
Best Break Out
2,129 books — 4,004 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 — 912 voters

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuistonAgain, But Better by Christine RiccioWhite Stag by Kara BarbieriThe Night Olivia Fell by Christina  McDonaldHere and Now and Then by Mike Chen
2019 Adult/New Adult Debuts
185 books — 513 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Great Debut Novels
1,601 books — 1,493 voters


Gregory Nalpon
There used to be a rubbish heap under the great tree in Dhoby Ghaut with a sarabat stall parked next to it. It was a low, sprawling rubbish heap made up of the usual things—refuse from dustbins, paper, old tins and slippers and leaves from the tree above. Then one day, people forgot about it. They found a new dumping place and the old rubbish heap settled low on the ground. Time passed and its contents became warm and rich and fertile and people living in the area would take away potfuls of it t ...more
Gregory Nalpon, The Wayang at Eight Milestone: Stories & Essays

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M.J. Marinescu, Forsaken Genesis

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