Fave book of a 1st time author

[RussetDivinity]

I really enjoyed Thieftaker[/b] by D. B. Jackson, which is a historical fantasy set in the pre-Revolution American colonies.

I also have to agree with ALRyder that I was hoping to find lots of conversation on this site, though I will admit that I am guilty of just responding to a subject and leaving it at that.

[Beamer92]

[quote="thsavage2"]Pat Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind is masterful, and it was his first novel to be published.


Would definitely have to agree with this! It used to be Chris Paolini for Eragon (which I read incessantly as a younger person) but I think as first works go Rothfuss's comes in at a much higher bar, to where Eragon built to that higher bar. On the other hand Paolini was much younger and aimed at a younger audience.... I love both series so much..... TURMOIL!

[tollyfaye24]

The catastrophic history of you and me by Jess Rothenburg. It was so interesting and I hope and wait that she does more.

[ReadandRoll[]

Pat Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind is masterful, and it was his first novel to be published. He wrote a lot of it while in college (and it took him a really long time to graduate) but then reworked a lot of it before it got published. It is really just superb, I take pretty much any chance I can to recommend it. And the sequel, Wise Man's Fear, and then we can all wait together for the third and final book with bated breath.

I'd also recommend Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and following). He was a journalist and into sci-fi way before he wrote those, but I think they were his first actual novels. And they are really, really good. Heavy, but really good.

Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo came to my mind also when reading this topic. I'll have to look into Pat Rothfuss.

[Brandi Noelle]

There are many, I'm sure...Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" comes to mind. Amazing historical saga and the only book she ever had published during her lifetime. A more recent choice would be "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins. An excellent suspense novel and she managed to not only seamlessly switch narrators chapter-by-chapter, but she also hopped back and forth in chronology without missing a step. Very impressive.

[DATo]

Well, I guess the obvious one .... To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Her second one was a stinker though in my opinion. That's a .500 batting average, which is not bad in baseball.

[Lincolnshirelass]

May I put in a word for Charlotte Bronte's 'The Professor' (I accept that like all the Brontes she wrote extensive juvenilia but am referring to her first published book written in adulthood). I don't love it with the passion I love Jane Eyre, but it is interesting on several levels - the male protagonist, and also a reversal of the more frequent phenomenon when a writer is exploring their own personal life in their fiction - she examines her relationship with Constantin Heger more objectively and less emotionally than in the later 'Vilette'.

[Tpop]

There are many, I'm sure...Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" comes to mind.

I did not realize that Gone With the Wind was her first book. That is incredible.

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My favorite first time author/book was David Baldacci’s ‘Absolute Power’. It is a murder suspense novel about secret service agents that cover up the death of a woman who is having an affair with the president. A classic conspiracy novel!

[Brandi Noelle]

There are many, I'm sure...Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" comes to mind.

I did not realize that Gone With the Wind was her first book. That is incredible.

Yes, her first and only that she ever had published. Amazing!

[Tpop]

There are many, I'm sure...Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" comes to mind.

I did not realize that Gone With the Wind was her first book. That is incredible.

Yes, her first and only that she ever had published. Amazing!

The fact that she only had one book almost feels sad. Someone with that much talent should have blessed the world with many stories.

[CommMayo]

Girl Underwater by Claire Kells is great. It wasn't what I was expecting when I started it, but the author was great at making you fall in love with her flawed characters. She does a wonderful job of weaving together present day with flashbacks. I highly recommend this debut novel.

[Brandi Noelle]

The fact that she only had one book almost feels sad. Someone with that much talent should have blessed the world with many stories.

I know, it’s unfortunate. Who knows how many more adventures she could have taken us on!

[Steph K]

Borderline by Mishell Baker. Also Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. I believe she was a first time author when she wrote that.

[Insightsintobooks729]

I really enjoyed The Bend in the Willow, it made me cry.

[CaitlinGonya]

I really liked The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo but then the second one was slow for me.