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
- Victoria Aveyard – Cruel Crown
- Jill Mansell – Meet Me At Beachcomber Bay
- Sheila Norton – The Vets at Hope Green
- Anabelle Bryant – The Den of Iniquity
- Lele Iturrioz – Seasons Within
- Cassandra Piat – Stuck With Me
- Anne Bishop – Written In Red
- Judith Colquhoun – A Country Practice: New Beginnings
- Nikki Landis – Dark Promise
- Sarah Morgan – Sleepless in Manhattan
- Donna Compositor – Curse of Stars
- Liz Gavin – Celtic Fire
- Clare Morrall – When the Floods Came
- Jane Ederlyn – Reborn
- Tamara Lush – Hot Shade
- Abbie Roads – Saving Mercy
- H. Leighton Dickson – Dragon of Ash & Stars
- J.D. Hughes – My Beautiful Disaster
- Laini Taylor – Strange the Dreamer
- Sybil Bartel – Rough
- Harper Sloan – Lost Rider
- Deborah Wilde – The Unlikeable Demon Hunter
- Catherine Green – The Darkness of Love
- Deborah A. Wolf – The Dragon’s Legacy
- Lynda Young Spiro – There is Always More to Say
- Greta Stone – Cry Wolf
- Gail Marie Mitchell – Loving The Life Less Lived
- Rachel Burton – The Many Colours of Us
- C.M. Stunich – Groupie
- Cristina Hodgson – A Little of Chantelle Rose
- J. Aislynn d’Merricksson – Mother of Wolves
- Patricia A. McKillip – Alphabet of Thorn
- Tiffany Shand – Shifter Clan Series
- Lilly Bartlett – The Second Chance Cafe in Carlton Square
- Jaimie Admans – The Chateau of Happily Ever Afters
- Anna Stephens – Godblind
- Laurie Winters – Home Field
- Tani Hanes – Living In The Shallows
- Rachel Van Dyken – Cheater
- Joanna Mazurkiewicz – Wyvern Awakening
- Holly James – Worth Remembering
- Caitlyn Lynch – Ellie’s Encounter
- Chantelle Griffin – Made In The Image Of The Goddess
- A.L. Michael – Cocktails & Dreams
- Errin Krystal – The Last Dragon Rider
- Aimee Brown – Little Gray Dress
- Sarah Bennett – Wedding Bells at Butterfly Cove
That’s a great idea for a book challenge. I look forward to following your take on this throughout the year!
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Great idea! I’m a huge fan of Victoria Aveyard so I love your first discovery. 🙂
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I’m totally inspired by this challenge. I think it will reinvigorate my TBR a little!
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I’m usually finding lots of new authors each year which is pretty exciting and I aim to now start reading them! I have sooo much to get through! Hopefully we’ll both have a good book year. Good luck with your challenge!
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Good luck to you too. It’s great discovering new authors.
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