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Tuesday, February 01, 2011

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?
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6 comments:

  1. Pam7:24 PM

    I've read and loved all of those books, with the exception of Close to the Falls. I have not even heard of that one. I'm off to investigate it now.

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  2. Julia7:51 PM

    I didn't know The Help was a debut. Huh! It's been on my TBR for awhile now..

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  3. Anne@HeadFullofBooks9:15 PM

    Wasn't this a fun assignment? I'm reading Mudbound next. I agree about The Help and She's Come Undone. Great list.

    Thanks for dropping by my blog.

    -Anne
    My Head is Full of Books

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  4. Lark Andrea9:34 PM

    Great list! I love To Kill a Mockingbird and The Secret Lives of Bees.

    Reading Lark's Top 10

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  5. Kim2:30 AM

    Great list--To Kill a Mockingbird is surely a favorite on a lot of lists. I totally forgot about it! I need to read Memoirs of a Geisha--it has been on my tbr pile for years...
    *smiles*

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  6. (Diane) Bibliophile By the Sea2:12 PM

    I haven't read Too Close to the Falls, or Time Travelers Wife, and I did not care for Secret Life of Bees, but agree with the rest Sue.

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