Six Months of Books - 2013

I've spotted this half-year round up on several blogs now and it looks fun to take part in; rather than just trying to write a list of best books read so far in 2013 it highlights different aspects of our reading. It was introduced by Jo at The Book Jotter and you can adapt the categories to suit.

Here are my six sixes from the first half of 2013 - six authors or books in six different categories, covering some of the books I've read in the past six months!

Six authors who are new to me:

1. Essie Fox
2. Robert Goolrick
3. Jonathan Tropper
4. Ann Weisgarber
5. Eva Hudson
6. Hannah Richell

Six authors I've read before:

1. Martin Edwards
2. Lynn Shepherd
3. Louise Voss & Mark Edwards
4. Stefan Zweig
5. Claire McGowan
6. Alexander McCall Smith

Six debut novels I've been impressed by:

1. The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait
2. Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly
3. The Night Rainbow by Claire King
4. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
5. Amity and Sorrow by Peggy Riley
6. The Things We Never Said by Susan Elliot Wright

Six books I've enjoyed the most:

1. Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
2. After the Fall by Charity Norman
3. The Lost by Claire McGowan
4. The Promise by Ann Weisgarber
5. Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
6. The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook

Six books from authors I know will never let me down:

1. Human Remains by Elizabeth Haynes
2. The Memory of Lost Senses by Judith Kinghorn
3. Walk Me Home by Catherine Ryan Hyde
4. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
5. A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd
6. The Arsenic Labyrinth by Martin Edwards

Six books I've read in an English translation:

1. Alex by Pierre Lemaitre
2. Every Seventh Wave by Daniel Glattauer
3. Journey into the Past by Stefan Zweig
4. The Library of Unrequited Love by Sophie Divry
5. The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain
6. Fear by Stefan Zweig

How about your choices this year so far?