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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 148: Backlist: Best Books of 2020 with Susie (@NovelVisits)

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

For Episode 148, as the podcast takes a brief break, we revisit a backlist episode…the Best Books of 2020 with Susie Boutry (@NovelVisits). Re-listening to this one is a unique opportunity to get a look back on a strange year. Whether you're new to the podcast or have been with us for a while, everyone loves a TBR filled with backlist gems! Library holds should be easy and paperbacks editions have been released! So, let's take a look back at our favorite 2020 books (overall and by genre) and our picks for tons of bookish superlatives.

This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!).

This is a backlist episode. It features a new introduction and has been cut for content, but first aired on November 25, 2020, in its entirety, as Ep. 71: Best Books of 2020 and Bookish Superlatives with Susie from @NovelVisits.

Highlights

  • 2020 Podcast Overview (including favorite and most downloaded episodes) 
  • Overview of our reading years (including the impact of COVID-19)
  • Favorite books of 2020 (trends, overall, and by genre)
  • 2020 Bookish Superlative Awards

Our Favorite Books of 2020 (Overall and by Genre) [18:25]

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Susie

2020 Superlatives [43:54]

Sarah

Susie

Other Books Mentioned

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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

0:15.5

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

0:20.7

and one new release

0:22.0

they're excited about.

0:23.4

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

0:27.5

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

0:32.0

the word to your reader friends, post about it on your social media, or support the show on Patreon at patreon.com slash Sarah's

0:41.8

bookshelves. Supporting the show on Patreon gets you access to bonus podcast episodes and lots of other

0:47.4

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

0:53.4

Hello, I've been traveling a lot in August, so I decided to

0:57.1

take a one episode summer break, but only from new episodes. So today, you'll be getting a rerun of what we're

1:04.2

calling a backlist episode. The backlist episode we are sharing is the best Books of 2020 episode I did with Susie.

1:13.3

2020 was an unsurprisingly very weird year for both Susie and my reading.

1:19.0

In this episode, Susie and I reflect on how 2020 was for the podcast, which is interesting

1:24.2

for me to look back on because that actually was a year the podcast went

1:27.6

through a lot of change. We talk about how COVID impacted our reading, duh. We share our top

1:33.7

books of 2020 by genre, and then we do superlatives. It was really interesting for me to listen

1:39.9

back to this episode three years later. I had a couple of observations I wanted to share.

1:45.2

The first one, at the beginning of this episode, Susie and I talk about how we're super

1:50.2

reading twins. Since then, Susie and I have realized that our reading tastes have been

1:55.6

diverging a bit over the past couple years. And we actually just had a very lengthy conversation where we analyzed

2:03.5

this with data included in a bonus podcast episode for patrons. And funny enough, 2020 was the first

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