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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 157: Best Books of 2023 Superlatives with Susie (@NovelVisits)

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

We're gearing up to close out our year of reading with today's podcast episode, featuring the Best Books of 2023 Superlatives with Susie (@NovelVisits). Our wrap-up is split into two episodes: today's Superlatives and next week's Genre Awards. Today, we're diving into more than 25 Superlative categories, including Most Deserving of the Hype, Biggest Surprise, the Darkest Book of the Year, and many others!

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Highlights

  • Our best books of the year from over 25 categories, including:
    • Most Deserving of the Hype
    • FOMO-Worthy Book
    • Third Time's the Charm
    • Darkest Book of the Year
    • Top Underrated Gem
    • Biggest Surprise
    • The Book You Flew Through
    • Most Polarizing Favorite
    • Most Heartbreaking

2023 Superlatives [6:52]

Susie

Sarah

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

0:15.6

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

0:21.8

and one new release they're excited about.

0:23.5

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

0:27.7

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

0:32.2

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

0:41.9

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

0:47.6

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

0:53.7

Welcome to our 2023 year-in superlatives episode, the first episode in our two-part year-in series.

1:01.7

Part two of the series is going to be coming next week, and it is the 2023 genre awards,

1:08.2

including awards voted on by our Patreon community, as well as Susie and I's

1:13.5

picks for each of the genre categories. And today, I've got Susie from Novel Visits with me.

1:19.5

Welcome, Susie. Thanks, Sarah. I am so excited to do this episode. It's going to be lots of fun.

1:25.5

Our year-end episodes are always so fun, and they get tons of downloads, which we love.

1:30.5

Right.

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And they really get us thinking about what was so great about the year.

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Absolutely.

1:36.3

And so just so you all have this perspective, we are recording this probably weeks before we finalize our best books of the year list. So this is also helping

1:47.4

me kind of parse through my potentials for that list and firming up my feelings about what's

1:53.0

going to be on it and what's not going to be on it. Oh, definitely. But before we get into our

1:57.1

superlatives, I do have two quick housekeeping announcements, both of which are really

2:02.6

great reasons to join our Patreon community if you've been considering it. And you could even make

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