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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 167: Circling Back to 2018 in Books with Catherine (@GilmoreGuide)

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

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4.9 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In Ep. 167, Catherine (@GilmoreGuide) and I are circling back to 2018 in the book world with a special retrospective episode!  We share big bookish highlights for that year, including book news, award winners, and what was going on in the world outside of reading. We also talk about our own 2018 reading and our favorite 2018 releases.  Plus, you’ll hear listener-submitted favorites!  This episode is overflowing with great backlist titles to add to your TBR!  

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Highlights

  • The big news going on outside the book world.
  • Book stories and trends that dominated 2018.
  • Looking back at 2018, we couldn’t help but say, “If only we knew what was coming!”
  • The books that have had staying power.⁠
  • Titles that now are comps for SO MANY books!⁠
  • We explore the early days of this new wave of celebrity book clubs.
  • Our personal 2018 reading stats.⁠
  • Listener-submitted favorites from 2018.⁠

Circling Back to 2018 in Books [2:05]

The World Beyond Books

The Book Industry

Book Trends

Big Books of 2018

Our Top Books of 2018

Listeners’ Top Books of 2018

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. I'm your host, Sarah Dickinson. Join me every other week as we get real and sometimes a bit snarky about books and reading. Sometimes I'm joined by one of my

0:22.6

co-hosts, Catherine from Gilmer Guide to Books, or Susie from novel visits. Other times,

0:28.5

I talk with a bookish guest, including authors and publishing insiders who give us a behind-the-scenes

0:33.6

peek into different corners of the book world. But always, we're bringing you great book

0:39.0

recommendations in every single episode. Let's get rolling. Welcome to our first annual

0:45.7

time capsule episode. I've been kicking around doing an episode like this ever since hearing

0:51.5

Knox and Jamie of the pop cast celebrate their 10-year podcast anniversary by revisiting the year 2013, which happened to be the year they launched their show.

1:02.7

We're not celebrating anything today, and we are not targeting the year that we started Sarah's bookshelves live.

1:09.3

But in that episode, Knox and Jamie very

1:12.7

briefly touched on the books that stood out in 2013. And that got me thinking, we need an

1:20.1

entire episode that goes deep into what was going on in the book world in a given year. So that's

1:25.8

what we're going to do today. And we have selected the

1:28.2

year 2018 for our first episode. Catherine is with me today. She's going to help me go back in time

1:34.2

to 2018 in books. Welcome, Catherine. Thank you. Happy to be here. I think it's so wild to look back

1:40.2

on 2018 and think, oh, what a simpler time. But really, the crazy had already started. And then

1:48.3

the universe said, hold my beer. Totally. And 2018 for me feels like not that long ago, but then I look

1:56.0

back and I'm like, oh my God, the world was so different. Right. I mean, predominantly, it was pre-COVID, right?

2:03.2

Right. Exactly. So here's how we're going to do this today. This is the first time we've done an

2:07.8

episode like this. So we're going to shoot for it and see what happens. We do have a plan,

2:16.0

but there's hopefully going to be a lot of discussion within the plan.

2:18.8

We're going to cover 2018 in seven categories.

2:21.5

I know that sounds like a lot, but it's not as much as you think.

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