The Discoverability Challenge – 2017

I was looking to add a challenge to my reading this year in addition to the Goodreads Reading Challenge which is just about the number of books you read. I enjoyed keeping tabs on how Joanne Hall was doing with her Discoverability Challenge last year, a challenge to read more female authors, especially within the SFF genre. When she posted she was doing it again this year and within the post put a call out for others to join her this seemed the perfect challenge to join, especially as I have quite a pile of books waiting to be read by female authors I’ve not read before.

The rules are simple, read at least one book per month in any genre, fiction or non-fiction by a female author you’ve not read before. As I take part in blog tours and pick up books from NetGalley this will be easily achievable so I have set myself the goal of making sure that I read at least one SFF novel by a female author I’ve not read before each month to chip away at that pile I mentioned earlier!

I will keep a list here of all the authors I read who qualify for the Discoverability Challenge, and for all the books I specifically read for the challenge I will tag them and link them back to this page. I’m looking forward to seeing how many new female authors I discover in 2017!

My 2017 Discovered Female Authors

1. Victoria Aveyard – Cruel Crown
2. Jill Mansell – Meet Me At Beachcomber Bay
3. Sheila Norton – The Vets at Hope Green
4. Anabelle Bryant – The Den of Iniquity
5. Lele Iturrioz – Seasons Within
6. Cassandra Piat – Stuck With Me
7. Anne Bishop – Written In Red
8. Judith Colquhoun – A Country Practice: New Beginnings
9. Nikki Landis – Dark Promise
10. Sarah Morgan – Sleepless in Manhattan
11. Donna Compositor – Curse of Stars
12. Liz Gavin – Celtic Fire
13. Clare Morrall – When the Floods Came
14. Jane Ederlyn – Reborn
15. Tamara Lush – Hot Shade
16. Abbie Roads – Saving Mercy
17. H. Leighton Dickson – Dragon of Ash & Stars
18. J.D. Hughes – My Beautiful Disaster
19. Laini Taylor – Strange the Dreamer
20. Sybil Bartel – Rough
21. Harper Sloan – Lost Rider
22. Deborah Wilde – The Unlikeable Demon Hunter
23. Catherine Green – The Darkness of Love
24. Deborah A. Wolf – The Dragon’s Legacy
25. Lynda Young Spiro – There is Always More to Say
26. Greta Stone – Cry Wolf
27. Gail Marie Mitchell – Loving The Life Less Lived
28. Rachel Burton – The Many Colours of Us
29. C.M. Stunich – Groupie
30. Cristina Hodgson – A Little of Chantelle Rose
31. J. Aislynn d’Merricksson – Mother of Wolves
32. Patricia A. McKillip – Alphabet of Thorn
33. Tiffany Shand – Shifter Clan Series
34. Lilly Bartlett – The Second Chance Cafe in Carlton Square
35. Jaimie Admans – The Chateau of Happily Ever Afters
36. Anna Stephens – Godblind
37. Laurie Winters – Home Field