Ep. 159: Winter 2024 Book Preview with Catherine (@GilmoreGuide)
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.7 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Winter 2024 Book Preview with Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books!
In this episode, Catherine and I share 16 of our most anticipated books releasing January through March.
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Highlights
- While Sarah and Catherine had some trouble with fall, winter is overflowing with potential winners.
- Sarah brings 2 sports fiction titles.
- Both Catherine and Sarah explore a mix of familiar authors and exciting debuts.
- It's time for another mythology retelling for Catherine!
- Sarah shares a 5-star book she's already read and loved.
- Sarah's wildcard pick might be a little out there — and hopefully, it pays off.
- Plus, don't miss their #1 picks for winter.
Winter 2024 Book Preview [3:32]
January
Sarah's Picks
- Mercury by Amy Jo Burns (January 2) | Amazon
| Bookshop.org [3:47]
- River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure (January 9) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [10:24]
- Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson (January 30) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [16:38]
Catherine's Picks
- The Fury by Alex Michaelides (January 16) | Amazon
- Family Family by Laurie Frankel (January 23) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [14:15]
Other Books Mentioned
- Shiner by Amy Jo Burns [3:57]
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides [7:59]
- The Maidens by Alex Michaelides [8:05]
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald [9:30]
- This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel [14:21]
- Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson [16:53]
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie [17:21]
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie [17:27]
February
Sarah's Picks
- Dixon, Descending
by Karen Outen (February 6) | Amazon | Bookshop.org
- Leaving by Roxana Robinson (February 13) | Amazon
- The Fortune Seller by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (February 13) | Amazon
Catherine's Picks
- The Things We Didn't Know
- Medea by Eilish Quin (February 13) | Amazon
- Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa (February 27) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [31:04]
- Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange (February 27) | Amazon
- After Annie by Anna Quindlen (February 27*) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [46:45]
Other Books Mentioned
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer [24:05]
- Breathless by Amy McCulloch [24:13]
- Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes [26:30]
- The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller [30:21]
- Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner [30:45]
- The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo [30:49]
- The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin [31:25]
- The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale [34:17]
- The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale [34:20]
- Girls and Their Horses by Eliza Jane Brazier [39:08]
- There There by Tommy Orange [39:44]
- Alternate Side by Anna Quindlen [48:37]
March
Sarah's Picks
- Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet (March 5) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [42:21]
- Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel (March 12) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [49:03]
Catherine's Pick
- James by Percival Everett (March 19) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [51:15]
Other Books Mentioned
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville [44:37]
- My Time Among the Whites by Jennine Capó Crucet [45:03]
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain [51:35]
- The Trees by Percival Everett [52:40]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm your host, Sarah Dickinson. |
| 0:13.8 | Join me every other week as we get real and sometimes a bit snarky about books and reading. |
| 0:19.3 | Sometimes I'm joined by one of my co-hosts, Catherine, |
| 0:22.0 | from Gilmer Guide to Books, or Susie from Novel Visits. Other times, I talk with a bookish guest, |
| 0:28.4 | including authors and publishing insiders who give us a behind-the-scenes peek into different |
| 0:33.4 | corners of the book world. But always, we're bringing you great book recommendations in every |
| 0:39.3 | single episode. Let's get rolling. Welcome to the first episode of 2024, which is the winter |
| 0:47.0 | book preview. As usual, for these quarterly previews, Catherine from the Gilmore Guide to Books, |
| 0:52.6 | is joining me. Welcome back, Catherine. |
| 0:54.7 | Hello. Happy to be here to record the last episode of recording in 20203 for you and I. |
| 1:01.6 | Correct. We are recording this in 2023 because holidays and stuff. Right. |
| 1:07.2 | So today we are highlighting the books we are excited about that are coming out from January to March of 2024. |
| 1:15.6 | And Catherine, remember how in the fall preview we could not find enough books to include our usual amount? |
| 1:23.9 | Yes. |
| 1:25.1 | That was not a problem this time around. |
| 1:27.2 | No, it definitely wasn't because initially I thought I wasn't going to have enough. And then I had so many that I was able to move pieces around and not overlap with you right up until yesterday. And we still didn't overlap. Yeah, same with me. I had so many to choose from. |
| 1:46.6 | You did. So any themes with your picks today? The closest I can come to a theme is I've got balance |
| 1:53.6 | among the authors for our repeats and for our debuts. But beyond that, the majority of my choices are about people of color, |
| 2:05.3 | identity, and the American dream. Interesting. I hope it will be. I would say I also have balance. |
| 2:13.2 | And I always try to do a nice mix of books with my preview picks. I do think about not having |
| 2:20.0 | too many of one type of book and getting a nice mix. So I hope the answer to this question for me |
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