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Year in Debut: Noteworthy First Novels 2010
Chick Lit
Christian Fiction
- Hannah Alexander
- Lynn Austin
- Paul Bagdon
- Terri Blackstock
- Lawana Blackwell
- Stephen Bly
- Jack Cavanaugh
- Colleen Coble
- Mindy Starns Clark
- Lori Copeland
- W. Dale Cramer
The Contemporary Woman - Fiction
- Elizabeth Adler
- Elizabeth Berg
- Maeve Binchy
- Chris Bohjalian
- Denise Chavez
- Pearl Cleage
- Marisa De Los Santos
- Barbara Delinsky
- Gail Godwin
- Olivia Goldsmith
- Eileen Goudge
- Kristin Hannah
Crime Thrillers
Fantasy
- Piers Anthony
- Robert Asprin
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Terry Brooks
- Emma Terry
- Joy Chant
- Charles De Lint
- Stephen R. Donaldson
- Sara Douglass
- David Drake
- David Eddings
- Kate Elliott
- Raymond E. Feist
- Neil Gaiman
GLBT Authors
Gay
Lesbian
- Carol Anshaw
- Alison Bechdel
- Lillian Faderman
- Katherine V. Forrest
- Nicola Griffith
- Ellen Hart
- Sandra Scoppettone
- Sarah Waters
Bisexual
Transgendered
- Amy Bloom's Normal: transsexual CEOs, cross-dressing cops, hermaphrodites with attitude
- Chris Bohjalian's Trans-sister Radio
- Kate Bornstein
- Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Patrick Califia-Rice
- John Colapinto
- Jeffery Eugenides' Middlesex
- Leslie Feinberg
- Dhillon Khosla
- Dean Kotula
- Aaron Raz Link
- Julie Anne Peters' Luna
- Max W. Valerio
- Virginia Woolf's Orlando
Historical Fiction
- Kevin Baker
- Howard Bahr
- James Carlos Blake
- Geraldine Brooks
- Tracy Chevalier
- Bernard Cornwell
- Elizabeth Crook
- E. L. Doctorow
- Ivan Doig
- Sarah Dunant
- Louise Erdrich
Horror
Humorous Fiction and Nonfiction
- Dave Barry
- William Boyd
- T.C. Boyle
- Bill Bryson
- Christopher Buckley
- Mark Childress
- Jennifer Crusie
- Nora Ephron
- Janet Evanovich (mysteries)
- Helen Fielding
- Bill Fitzhugh
- Fanny Flagg
- Al Franken
Legal Thrillers
- David Baldacci
- William Bernhardt
- Dudley Buffa
- Harlan Coben
- Michael Connelly
- William Coughlin
- Dexter Dias
- Linda Fairstein
- J. F. Freedman
Literary Fiction
- Isabel Allende
- Kate Atkinson
- Paul Auster
- Margaret Atwood
- Russell Banks
- John Banville
- T.C. Boyle
- Anita Brookner
- Michael Chabon
- Sandra Cisneros
- J.M. Coetzee
- Michael Cunningham
- Kiran Desai
- Margaret Drabble
- Richard Ford
- Ernest Gaines
- Kay Gibbons
- Nadine Gordimer
- David Guterson
Medical Thrillers
Mysteries
- Nevada Barr (park ranger detective)
- Stephanie Barron (Jane Austen mysteries)
- M.C. Beaton (Cotswolds; Agatha Raisin)
- Laurien Berenson (dog mysteries)
- Lilian Jackson Braun (cat mysteries)
- Rita Mae Brown (cat and corgi detectives)
- Sinclair Browning (Southern AZ ranch mysteries)
- Edna Buchanan (Miami crime reporter)
- James Lee Burke (Louisiana bayou detective)
- Lee Child (Ex-MP investigator)
- Laura Childs (Tea shop and scrapbooking mysteries)
- Mary Higgins Clark (complex plots)
- Margaret Coel (Arapaho culture)
- Patricia Cornwell (forensic pathologist)
- Colin Cotteril (coroner, set in Laos)
- Diane Mott Davidson (culinary mysteries)
- Lindsey Davis (Roman detective)
- Jeffrey Deaver (quadriplegic detective)
- James Doss (Colorado and Ute Indians)
- James Ellroy (hard boiled mysteries)
- Janet Evanovich (female bounty hunter--humorous)
- Linda Fairstein (law and order)
- Dick Francis (racing mysteries)
- Kinky Friedman (the Kinkster, sleazy detective)
- Elizabeth George (British and Scottish mysteries)
- Judith Van Gieson (Albuquerque lawyer/detective)
- Sue Grafton alphabet mysteries--female detective)
- Barbara Hambly (ex-slave detective)
- Carl Hiassen (Florida crime--farce)
- Tony Hillerman (Navajo detective)
- P.D. James (Scotland Yardliterary)
- J.A. Jance (southwest mysteries)
- Faye Kellerman (Pete Decker/Rina Lazarus)
- Jonathan Kellerman (child psychologist detective)
- Elmore Leonard (gritty and witty)
- Alexander McCall Smith (Botswana mysteries)
- Michael McGarrity (New Mexico state trooper)
- Sharyn McCrumb (Appalachian mysteries)
- Walter Mosley (African American detective)
- Tamar Myers Pennsylvania Dutch country--with recipes)
- Robert B. Parker (Boston private investigator)
- James Patterson (Washington, D.C. mysteries)
- George Pelecanos (Washington, DC--literary)
- Sharon Kay Penman (1100stime of Eleanor of Aquitaine)
- Elizabeth Peters (Egyptian mysteries)
- Ian Rankin (Scottish detective)
- Kathleen Reichs (forensic anthropologist)
- Lynda S. Robinson (ancient Egypt)
- Stephen Saylor (Roman Empire mysteries)
- Jon Talton (Phoenix in the present)
- Minette Walters (British psychological mysteries)
Political/Spy Thrillers
- David Baldacci
- William Bernardt
- Patrick Davis
- Nelson DeMille
- Len Deighton
- Clive Egleton
- Barry Eisler
- Vince Flynn
- Ken Follett
Romance
- Jo Beverley
- Sandra Brown
- Emily Carmichael
- Jackie Collins
- Catherine Coulter
- Janet Dailey
- Jude Devereaux
- Diana Gabaldon
Science Fiction
- Isaac Asimov
- Kage Baker
- Iain M. Banks
- Stephen Baxter
- Greg Bear
- Gregory Benford
- Ben Bova
- Ray Bradbury
- David Brin
- Lois Bujold
- Orson Scott Card
- C.J. Cherryh
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Cory Doctorow
- David Drake
Techno/Military Thrillers
Westerns
Updated May 2009