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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 145: 2023 Micro Genres We Love with Susie (@NovelVisits)

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 145, Susie Boutry (@NovelVisits) and I dive into micro genres — the niches within niches that we've come to adore. Over the past year, we've discovered even more unique themes and types of books that consistently captivate us. Today, we're thrilled to present a special episode where we share an abundant list of our favorite micro genres, the books that define them, and the reasons why we find them so irresistible. 

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Micro Genres We Love

Romances that Deal with Fame [3:47]

Sarah

Susie

Speculative Fiction that Involves Climate Change(a.k.a. Cli-Fi) [7:02]

Susie

Other Books Mentioned:

Novels about the Dynamics of the Creative Process [11:35]

Sarah

Susie

Other Books Mentioned:

Novels With a Focus on Found Family [17:11]

Susie

Other Books Mentioned:

Literary Authors Leaping into Genre Writing [22:07]

Sarah

Susie

Other Books Mentioned:

Retellings of Classics or Beloved Books [29:10]

Susie

Sarah

Other Books Mentioned:

Character Twists [38:38]

Sarah

Susie

Stories Taking Place in a Single Day (a.k.a. Circadian Novels) [41:24]

Susie

Sarah

Other Books Mentioned:

Intense, (Sometimes) F-ed Up Love Stories, that Most Definitely Are Not Romances  [46:00]

Sarah

Susie

Novels Where Musicians or the Music Industry Play a Dominant Role [50:15]

Susie

Other Books Mentioned:

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

0:15.4

guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they do not love, and one new release

0:22.0

they're excited about. We're going to get real and sometimes a bit snarky about all things,

0:26.8

books. If you like the show, I'd love it if you follow the show in your podcast player,

0:31.7

spread the word to your reader friends, post about it on your social media, or support the show

0:37.4

on Patreon at patreon.com slash

0:41.2

Sarah's bookshelves. Supporting the show on Patreon gets you access to bonus podcast episodes and

0:46.6

lots of other goodies. There's also a link in the show notes and in my Instagram bio. Let's get rolling.

0:53.3

Welcome to the second annual microgenres we love

0:56.3

episode. Susie from Novel Visits and I did this episode for the first time last year and we got

1:01.6

great feedback from y'all. So we decided to make it an annual thing. So if you love today's episode

1:07.3

and you missed last year's, you can go back and listen. It is episode 116 and it came out

1:12.8

in June of 2022. Between last year's episode and this year's, Susie and I have been keeping a

1:18.8

running list of more microgenres we love. So we are super excited to share those with you all today.

1:24.6

Welcome back, Susie. It's nice to be back. This will be an annual thing,

1:29.0

I think, until we run out of microgenres. I have not found it hard to think of microgenres.

1:35.0

I have much more from this year's list that I'm not even going to share today. Yeah, that's true.

1:39.8

And I think, you know, with the changing landscape of books and, too, there's always kind of new

1:43.9

microgenres arising. Totally agree. So for those of y'all that have not listened to last year's

1:50.9

episode, what is a microgenre? And by the way, this is a term that we kind of made up. So also,

1:58.1

the definition is one that we made up. So for us, a microgenre are very niche types of books

2:06.4

that we can generally count on to work for us. And these are types of books that cannot be found

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