Top Ten Best Debut Books

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.  Today's topic is Top Ten Best Debut Books.  This took a little research, since I didn't always know whether a book was an author's first or not.  I made a list of some of my favorites, then looked on amazon to see if they were debuts.

Here we go, my favorites, in no particular order:

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - the best-ever one-hit wonder - I bet this one will be on everyone's list!
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan - I always found it fascinating that these two books (The Help and Mudbound), both by first-time authors, both set in early Mississippi and dealing with race relations, came out in the same year and were both so well-written.
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - one of my favorite novels of all-time - I was blown away by it but less-than impressed with her second novel.
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova - I'm looking forward to her recently released second novel
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden - with a first novel like this, who needs a second?
• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb - another novel that blew me away
• Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Glidner, a fabulous memoir everyone in my book group loved

There were plenty of others I could have included, but those were all at the top of my list!

How about you.  Which debut books are your favorites?