Ep. 109: Spring 2022 Book Preview with Catherine (@GilmoreGuide)
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.9 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Spring 2022 Book Preview with Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books!
In this episode, Catherine and I share our most anticipated books coming out in April – May 2022.
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Announcements
- In conjunction with my upcoming 9th annual Summer Reading Guide, I will be releasing a companion for Superstars Patrons ($7/mo)! The companion is called Summer Shelves and will feature backlist reading recommendations from former podcast guests. Plus, both Catherine and Susie will be contributing book recommendations! Both the 2022 Summer Reading Guide and Summer Shelves will launch on Tuesday, May 17. Sign up here, and select the Superstars tier to get this guide and more bonus content.
- Join our Patreon Community ($5/mo) to get our bonus podcast episode series called Book Preview Extras! In these episodes, Catherine and I share at least 4 bonus books we are excited about that we did not share in the big show preview episode. Get more details about all the goodies available to all patrons (Stars and Superstars) and sign up here!
Highlights
- Catherine and Sarah share the key to their recent high success rate and try to go in cold to new books.
- Sarah’s second 5 star book of 2022!
- Catherine and Sarah share their #1 spring release picks.
Spring 2022 Book Preview [3:34]
April
Sarah’s Picks:
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (April 5) | Amazon
| Bookshop.org [7:06]
- Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott (April 12) | Amazon
- Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (April 12) | Amazon | Bookshop.org
- Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett (April 12) | Amazon
- When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley (April 26) | Amazon
Catherine’s Picks:
- The Candy House by Jennifer Egan (April 5) | Amazon
- Four Treasures of the Sky
by Jenny Tinghui Zhang (April 5) | Amazon | Bookshop.org
- An Unlasting Home
- Dark Circles by Caite Dolan-Leach (May 10*) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [32:15]
May
Sarah’s Pick:
- The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz (May 31) | Amazon
Catherine’s Picks:
- Elektra by Jennifer Saint (May 3) | Amazon
- Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (May 10) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [43:47]
Other Books Mentioned
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan [10:23]
- I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott [15:34]
- The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik [19:35]
- A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum [28:09]
- Honor by Thrity Umrigar
[28:18]
- Rabbit Cake
- Dead Letters
- The Swans of Fifth Avenue
- We Were the Lucky Ones
- If I Had Your Face
- Ariadne
- The Plot
by Jean Hanff Korelitz [40:57]
- You Should Have Known
- Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner [43:19]
- The Chosen and the Beautiful
*Book’s release date changed since the time of recording.
About Catherine Gilmore
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Catherine started The Gilmore Guide to Books over 6 years ago after wrapping up a career as a corporate librarian. She loves books and reading (surprise!) and currently lives in Ann Arbor, MI.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. I'm Sarah of the blog Sarah's Bookshelves. Each week I'm |
| 0:15.5 | talking with one bookish guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they don't love, and one new |
| 0:22.7 | release they're excited about. We're going to get real and sometimes a bit snarky about all things |
| 0:28.3 | books. If you like the show, I'd really love your support. Spread the word to your reader friends, |
| 0:33.8 | subscribe to the show, rate and review it wherever you listen to podcasts. Let's get rolling. |
| 0:39.4 | Welcome to the Spring 2022 book preview. As usual for these quarterly previews, |
| 0:45.1 | Catherine from Gilmore Guide, is with me today. Welcome back, Catherine. Thank you. |
| 0:50.6 | Excited to be here. Before we get started on the books, I do have one quick announcement. |
| 0:56.0 | This is a fun one. |
| 0:57.6 | I wanted to let y'all know about something new and exciting we have coming up. |
| 1:02.7 | I have been doing my summer reading guide for nine years now. |
| 1:06.7 | And I'm sure most of y'all are familiar with it, if you have been either listening to the podcast or following my blog for a while. But this year, I am doing a supplement to my summer reading |
| 1:16.3 | guide for Superstars patrons. And Superstars patrons are the ones that pay $7 a month. |
| 1:22.2 | My regular summer reading guide will be totally normal as it is every year. This will just be |
| 1:27.1 | something in addition to that. |
| 1:28.9 | The supplement is called Summer Shelves and will feature backlist summer reading recommendations |
| 1:34.3 | from our podcast guests. And you will get picks from Catherine and Susie as well. My own summer |
| 1:40.4 | reading guide is mostly front list books. I do have some backlist books in there, |
| 1:44.8 | but it's definitely at least 60, maybe even 70% front list. And that front list, obviously, |
| 1:51.6 | new books, new releases that came out in 2022. So I thought the Summer Shelf's supplement |
| 1:57.8 | would be a great place to incorporate some backlist picks. |
| 2:01.5 | And I love that we are getting to highlight reading tastes that are different from my own. |
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