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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 125: 2022 Debuts Special with Susie (@NovelVisits)

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

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4.9 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 125, Susie Boutry (@NovelVisits) and I are back for our 2nd annual Debuts Special. Today we’re sharing our favorite debut novels from 2022 (so far)! Plus, we discuss our reading stats for debuts this year and we talk about some upcoming sophomore novels (and their debuts) that are on our radar.

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Highlights

  • We discuss why debut books often feel more polished.
  • A full breakdown of our 2022 debut-related stats.
  • Debuts we love, divided into three categories:
    • Favorite Debuts of 2022 (so far)
    • Favorite Backlist Debuts
    • Upcoming Sophomore Novels

Favorite Debuts of 2022 (so far) [8:47]

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Favorite Backlist Debuts [33:18]

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Upcoming Sophomore Novels [44:30]

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Other Books Mentioned

About Susie Boutry

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Susie has loved reading for as long as she can remember. Some of her fondest childhood memories involve long afternoons at the library and then reading late into the night. More than ten years ago, she began journaling about the books she read and turned that passion into writing about books. Her first forays were as a guest reviewer on a friend’s blog, but she soon realized she wanted to be reviewing and talking about books on a blog of her own. From there, Novel Visits was born. That was in 2016 and, though the learning curve was steep, she loves being a part of the book community. Novel Visits focuses on new novel reviews (print and audio), previews of upcoming releases, and musings on all things bookish.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. I'm Sarah of Sarah's Bookshelves. Each week, I talk with a bookish guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they do not love,

0:22.2

and one new release they're excited about. We're going to get real and sometimes a bit snarky

0:27.3

about all things books. If you like the show, I'd love it if you follow the show in your

0:31.9

podcast player, spread the word to your reader friends, post about it on your social media,

0:39.1

or support the show on Patreon at patreon.com slash Sarah's bookshelves. Supporting the show on Patreon gets you access to

0:46.6

bonus podcast episodes and lots of other goodies. There's also a link in the show notes and in my

0:52.1

Instagram bio. Let's get rolling.

0:58.3

Welcome to the 2022 debuts special episode.

1:03.6

What we mean by debuts is an author's first book or novel.

1:10.3

Susie from Novel Visits is here with me, and she can be found on Instagram at Novel Visits if you don't follow her yet.

1:12.5

Welcome back, Susie. Hi, Sarah. It's nice to be back. This is one of my favorite episodes of the year. Well, it was your idea, too.

1:17.1

That's right. It was. Yes. We first did this show last year, and we got such great feedback from it

1:24.2

and had such a good time doing it that we decided to make it an annual thing. So this is our second annual debut special.

1:30.1

Yeah, and I'm super happy that we're doing it because there were a lot of great debuts this year.

1:36.0

And still to come.

1:37.3

I mean, it's only mid-October, but this is when it worked in the episode schedule.

1:41.7

I will say, if you are a new listener and did not hear last year's debut

1:46.1

special, it might be worth going back and listening to because Susie and I shared our all-time

1:51.2

favorite debuts in that episode. Yeah. So that was a little bit different because we could really

1:56.4

dive back into it, though we are doing a couple backlist this year too. All right. So here's how today's going to work. We're going to share some of our debut stats

2:04.0

for 2022 so far. Then we're going to get into debut books in three categories. Our favorite

2:11.3

2022 debuts, our favorite backlist debuts, and our most anticipated upcoming sophomore novels.

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