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January ~ New Beginnings
Hoping to hit all 3!Pick a 'new to you' author
Janette Oke
✔️
Start a new series that you've been really excited to read:
Hoping to read
Read the debut novel of a favorite author!
Hoping to Read ✔️
I chose a new to me author/ new series!
Finished it and loved it! Giving it 5 stars. Can't wait to read the rest of the series and more books by this author.
I'm in. I have several new to me authors and a few new series in my pile for this month.New to Me Author:
(1/5/25)
(1/24/25)
(1/30/25)
(1/31/25)
(1/31/25)New Author of New Series -
(1/5/25)
(1/21/25)
(1/21/25) Debut Books -
(1/11/25)
(1/26/25)New Series:
(1/4/25)
(1/7/25)
(1/24/25)
(1/25/25)
(1/25/25)
I’m in!Debut:
Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay
(01/04/25)NTMAuthor:
(01/21/25)Faith Blum
Andrea Renee Cox
Bailey Gaines
Grace A. Johnson
Katja H. Labonté
Rachel Leitch
Erika Mathews
Kellyn Roth
First in a Series & NTM Author:
Secrets by Kristen Heitzmann
(01/28/25)
New to me author:-Courtenay Burden
-Brandilyn Collins
-Janice Cantore
-Lucy Peterson
-Kate Watson
-Rachel Kovaciny
-Cheryl Pierson (don't plan to read more-disliked)
New Series:
Wyoming Sunrise by Penny Zeller
Tucker Mills by Lori Wick
British Are Coming by Robin Lee Hatcher
I am working on starting a new series or 2 by reading:
Jan 5/25A Class of Their Own Series #1
Jan 16/25Waters of Time Series #1
Finished my first book of the year which is the start of "new" series I had been looking forward to reading.
Jan 5/25A Class of Their Own Series #1
January- New BeginningsNew to Me Author
Ally Carter-
(GM) (finished 1/4/25)Sophie Kinsella-
(GM) (finished 1/5/25)New Series Start
Though I Stumble (Promises Of God #1) by Kim Cash Tate (currently reading)I have wanted to read this series for a while now. I'm so happy that I have the first book!
Finished a new author of a new series:
(1/5/25)I look forward to reading more of her books and the rest of the series (with more new authors).
New to Me Author:1. The Secrets We Carry by Deanna Lynn Sletten
2. The Orphans of Berlin
3. The Photographer's Son
New to Me Series:
1. A Suddenly Sadie Adventure series by Joanne Bischof
A couple ‘New’ to me discoveries -library find of New to me Heather Marshall
Canadian author of new release
The Secret History of Audrey James
I'm planning on reading Kyrie Wang's The Healer's Blade as soon as I can. I enjoy YA Fantasy, and this looks like a great one.
Finished my second new to me author of a new series:
(1/11/25)Also discovered this was her debut novel.
Kate wrote: "I'm looking forward to starting a new series by one of my favourite authors:
The Queen's Cook
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finished this one just now and it was just as good as I expected!
The Queen's Cook
"finished this one just now and it was just as good as I expected!
New-to-Me Author
1st Book In A New Series I've Discovered by an author I have not read in a long time!
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