These are the proposed authors for the ‘New Author Challenge’. I have never read anything by any of these authors before (the choice of book may change, but these will definitely be the authors):
- Cormac McCarthy – ‘No Country for Old Men’ √ (January 10)
- Anne Rice – ‘Interview With the Vampire’
- Khaled Hosseini – ‘The Kite Runner’
- Robertson Davies – ‘High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories’
- Barbara Kingsolver – ‘The Poisonwood Bible’
- Irvine Welsh – ‘Trainspotting’
- Yann Martel – ‘The Life of Pi’
- Annie Proulx – ‘The Shipping News’
- Carol Shields – ‘Larry’s Party’
- Alistair MacLeod – ‘No Great Mischief’
- Eric Walters – ‘We All Fall Down’ √ (January 6)
- Margaret Atwood – ‘Surfacing’ √ (March 7)
- Lawrence Hill – ‘The Illustrated Book of Negroes’
- Miriam Toews – ‘A Complicated Kindness’ √ (February 18)
- Timothy Findley – ‘The Wars’




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