I have to admit that I needed to do some research for this one! And I learned a lot. There are actually a few books that I had no idea were self-published originally that came as a huge surprise. So here are some I’ve enjoyed (though I probably won’t make it to ten this week!):
There are a few others I’ve heard of that I haven’t read (like The Joy of Cooking and Still Alice) and others I’ve read but didn’t love as much (The Celestine Prophecy, Eragon and, of course, Fifty Shades of Grey which I loathed). I’m sure there are still more that I just don’t know are indie or self-published, as I’ve not really looked into that. I’d love to hear which ones you guys loved!
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly link-up feature created by The Broke and the Bookish and hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Every week TTT has a different topic, and everyone who links up has to create a link of ten items that fit that topic. To see past and upcoming topics, go here.
I’ve learned a lot about books that were originally self-published this week, I think I vaguely knew about The Martian, but I had no idea Beatrix Potter or Charles Dickens had self-published!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/top-ten-tuesday-414-spotify-wrapped-book-tag-2022/
Yeah, it’s interesting to actually find out about the origins of some of the books we’ve just taken for granted as always having been there!
I didn’t know The Martian was self-published originally until today! That’s crazy cool!
Right? I feel like it was a blog that he released as a series of posts or something, though it’s been a while and I don’t really remember now! Definitely was self-published before it took the world by storm, which is awesome!
Charles Dickens published all/most of his books in a serial fashion in a literary magazine. Dribbling out the story over the year to entice readers to buy the publication. Once the books were finished he then published them in book form.
Yeah, I did actually know that! Hence how wordy some of them were – tendency to stretch them out since he was paid piecemeal, so I can kind of forgive him (no idea what Stephen King’s excuse is though)!