Top Ten Best Debut Books (of any year..just your favorite debut/”first from an author” books. If you want, you can focus on debuts of a specific year but it’s open to debuts of any year).
In order by debut year:
- Carrie by Stephen King (1974)
- Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark (1975)
- When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman (1985)
- Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell (1990)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (1997)
- A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava (2000)
- The Double Eagle by James Twining (2005)
- All the Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison (2007)
- The Osiris Alliance by Jack Ford (2009)
- 31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan (2010)


