5 Writers I'm Hoping To Read In 2024
New Writers For A New Year
Hello again!!!
The third week of January is also over but it’s still cold and I’m still surviving on tea and coffee. Are you good with cold weather? I definitely am not.
I started my 2024 with Dickens. I read A Christmas Carol in December. I consider it my first Dickens even though I’d read A Tale Of Two Cities back in 2008. I was very young and neither did I understand much nor do I remember anything (except one scene where there was wine flooding the street). So, A Christmas Carol was pretty much my first encounter with Dickens. It was such a treat to read, so warm and cosy, it had a hopeful, positive story. I found it extremely comforting. So, I decided to read more Dickens and hence started this year with A Tale Of Two Cities.
Now, while I’m enjoying Dickens, here are five other writers I’m planning to try for the first time this year.
Anthony Trollope
I learned about Trollope only after joining bookstagram. Since then, I’ve seen a lot of posts, discussing his writing and portrayal of Victorian society. I’ve also heard his female characters are extremely well-written. Well-written female characters aren’t easy to find in literature, especially in old literature written by male authors. So, that has been tempting me.
Thomas Hardy
I heard of Hardy with respect to Wuthering Heights, my favourite book. I’ve been told those who love Emily Brontë’s writing are likely to enjoy Hardy’s as well since they both write beautiful, poetic, atmospheric prose, painting vivid pictures of the landscapes, creating an immersive reading experience. And just like Brontë, he, too, was a great poet. That’s enough to convince me.
Émile Zola
Zola is another writer I’d never heard of before joining bookstagram and in fact, I still know very little about. But he has written several books and I love it when a writer has a large body of work, and the people who have similar taste as me tend to love his writing, and I’d like to read more French literature. So, I’m looking forward to reading his works.
Virginia Woolf
I love Woolf because of the part she played in getting Wuthering Heights the acknowledgement it deserved after it was treated unfavourably for a long time. But I’ve never read Woolf’s works. I’ve heard a lot about her stream of consciousness style writing, artistic proses and exploration of feminist topics. So, my expectations are quite high.
Elizabeth Gaskell
For a long time, I only knew Gaskell as the writer who wrote Charlotte Bronte’s biography. I didn’t know she herself was such a celebrated author. But thanks to the online book community, I’ve learnt about her portrayal of the of 19th-century industrial England, her well-written female characters and insightful social commentary. So that has me pretty intrigued.
Honestly, before I joined bookstagram, I used to consider myself quite well-read. And I am, compared to most people around me. But bookstagram has showed me that there are so so so many great books I still haven’t read, and I find it pretty exciting because it means I still have so many great books left to enjoy.
What about you? Are you planning to try any new writers in 2024? Don’t forget to let me know.
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