have you read any of these? let me know down below- happy tuesday! 

another Tuesday, another top ten post. i'm determined to get the hang of this and post more regularly. so here we go, this week's Top Ten Tuesday is: top ten new-to-me authors i read in 2015! thanks to The Broke & the Bookish for creating this weekly post. this one in particular, sounds like a great wrap-up as we approach the end of the year.

 1. Frederick Buechner: i read Telling Secrets in November and loved it. this was actually a recommendation from Beatrice, over on booksoverlooks on BookTube. like her, i find myself reflecting back on this book and can see myself rereading it next year. 

2. Gayle Forman: i know this past year there has been a lot of hype surrounding Gayle Forman, particularly for her If I Stay series but i actually became enthralled with her writing based off of her book, I Was Here. this novel is raw and very emotional. you can read my Goodreads review here! 

3. Patricia Briggs: oh man, Patricia Briggs. i had such good times with her and all her characters during my last semester at university. i really love both of her series'- Mercy Thompson and Alpha & Omega. if you're interested in starting one of these series, i suggest beginning with Mercy Thompson. you can begin with Alpha & Omega but you get more backstory and details by beginning with Mercy.

4. Jodi Meadows: i read the Newsoul series earlier in the year, but i can still recall how much i enjoyed Meadows's writing. this series had such great themes for a YA book. it had many underlying messages and the entire storyline has still stuck to me months after finishing.

5. Marlon James: i want to give a shoutout to my university and professor for making Marlon James's The Book of Night Women assigned reading. Marlon James recently won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings. i haven't read his award-winning novel, but The Book of Night Women was amazing. it's full of history and great narrative. i write more about it in my Goodreads review!

6. Margaret Atwood: i read The Handmaid's Tale during lunch breaks. when i finished it, it was one of those books i wanted to instantly go and buy, as i had rented it from the library. the writing was so exquisite and beautiful.

7. Ava Dellaira: this is based off of reading Love Letters to the Dead. personally, i really connected with this book. there were so many instances and emotional scenes that hit home for me. i loved the epistolary style for a YA novel and how heartfelt and true it was. this also got picked up to become a film i believe, so that will be interesting to watch when it's finished!

8. Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff: i mean this is pretty self-explanatory if you've explored my blog a bit. this is obviously related to Illuminae, which is one of my favorite books of 2015. so amazing. enough said.

9. Ann Brashares: i'm late to the game on this one, i'm aware. if you've read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants then you're familiar with this name. i only managed to read the first book in the series in 2015, but i want to finish it up in 2016.

10. Jean Rhys: this is an author that you either hate or you love. and i personally really love Jean Rhys. she really takes her time to delve deep inside a character's emotional ties, tiptoeing between their surroundings and internal sentiments. i feel like i'm in a daze when i read her novels; but a good daze, one that is dreamy and melancholy. 

are any of these authors familiar or on your top ten list? let me know!   

my second Top Ten Tuesday post, and this one was really fun to write. thanks to The Broke and the Bookish!

One of my goals for the new year was to venture out and discover new book blogs, and that's exactly what I did! I've discovered The Broke and the Bookish and I would highly suggest you go and check them out as well, there are really great posts and features- I really like their Bookish Jobs for Bookish People and Student of the Month (I've linked the most recent posts I could find). Exploring the blog I found that they had an original feature called Top Ten Tuesday and knew I had to participate. It's now or never. 

This week's Top Ten list is centered around "ten books I'd love to read with my book club/If I had a book club (or you could pick a specific kind of book club- like if you had a YA book club or an adult book club, etc)." I had to think about this one for a while, but then I went on my Goodreads and it didn't take long to decide. If I had a book club, and a very specific one at that, it would definitely be a Graphic Novels one! I have been wanting to read more comics, graphic novels and I'll even add manga in there because I feel as though they're all under the same collective group. 

1. Deadly Class by Rick Remender 

Centered around the 80's with an ancient group of assassins and teenagers in high school. Yeah, right up my alley.

2. Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson

"It's Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Gravity Falls and features five butt-kicking, rad teenage girls, wailing on monsters and solving a mystery with the whole world at stake." UM. Does this need further explanation?

3. The Sandman: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman

I'm going to cheat a little bit with this one because I've already read Volume 1 and really liked it, but haven't managed to pick up Volume 2. Either way, this series is really interesting. A bit weird but I hear it gets better as you go. 

4. Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan 

Kids who discover their parents are super-powered villains and by the same author of Saga? It just seems natural to start this.

5. Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan

I know another Vaughan graphic novel, but I mean I can't resist the ratings on Goodreads and recommendations from other readers! It seems a bit gorey and violent, so probably not the best for those with a weak stomach.

6. The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen

I don't know much about this one except that it has to with powerful gods taking over human bodies, 12 to be exact. 

7. Soulless: The Manga by Gail Carriger

You have Victorian London and a woman who connects the gap between the natural and supernatural worlds. And there are forces conspiring against said person! What more can you ask for?

8. Locke & Key by Joe Hill 

I have heard about this all over Booktube and Goodreads, so it's about time my fictional graphic novel book club got its act together and around to reading it! 

9. The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg

I feel as though this is one of those graphic novels that are just so pretty to open up and look at in general. I've heard the illustrations are beautiful and so is the storyline.

10. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

I can't tell you how many times I've seen this on BookOutlet and put it in my cart. Yet, it has never made it past that (then again neither have a lot of others). But there's just something about this story! 

So there you have it! I feel like I've just knocked it out of the ballpark with keeping with my 2015 goals. I wanted to find new blogs and get into more graphic novels. With this imaginary book club I feel as though I'm progressing towards finishing more graphic novels! What do you think? Have you read any of this or plan to? Let me know!