The topic for this week’s Top Ten Tuesdays is the Top Ten New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2025

I’ve done this (or something similar) the last few years (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), and have come to look forward to it. It’s one more chance to talk about people I quite enjoy talking about. Hopefully, these names get to continue to pop up on this here site for years to come. I just enjoyed getting to know these authors via their work. I’d love to interact with them, too–if any of those listed here read this and want to participate in anything with me. Please let me know.

I typically say something about each author, but I ran out of time/energy. I hope to finish this soon, but for now–here are the names. Click the links to learn more about 9 of them.

Here’s this year’s list.

Top Ten New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2025

(alphabetically)

10 Katherine Addison Katherine Addison
9 Ryka Aoki Ryka Aoki
8 Mai Corland Mai Corland
7 Z.S. Diamanti Z.S. Diamanti

In case you’re curious about what I said about the book that put them on this list, click here.
6 Adrian M. Gibson Adrian M. Gibson

In case you’re curious about what I said about the works that put her on this list, click here.
5 Michael Michel Michael Michel

In case you’re curious about what I said about the books that put him on this list, click here.
4 Jason Pargin Jason Pargin
3 Sadir S. Samir Sadir S. Samir
2 Zephaniah Sole

In case you’re curious about what I said about the book that put him on this list, click here.
1 Thomas Trang Thomas Trang

In case you’re curious about what I said about the book that put her on this list, click here.