Ep. 170: Summer 2024 Book Preview with Catherine (@GilmoreGuide)
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.7 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Announcement
- One of the many benefits to joining our Patreon Community is that you get access to several bonus podcast episode series, including Book Preview Extras! In these episodes, Catherine and I share at least 4 bonus books we are excited about that we did not share in the big show preview episode. Get more details about all the goodies available to all patrons (Stars and Superstars) and sign up here!
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Highlights
- Now that the 2024 Summer Reading Guide is set, Sarah welcomes heavier and more literary books.
- Catherine is leaning into several themes with books covering 4 decades.
- With a clean split of 3 new or debut authors and 3 repeat authors, Catherine is trying for more wins this season.
- Kick back with several summer picks that are 450+ pages.
- Sarah's choices feature a wide variety of topics with 2 debuts and 4 returning authors.
- Sarah has already read and rated two of her picks 5 stars!
- Plus, listen in to hear their #1 picks for the summer season.
Summer 2024 Book Preview [2:49]
June
Sarah's Picks
- Fire Exit by Morgan Talty (June 4) | Amazon
| Bookshop.org [3:28]
- Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe (June 11) | Amazon | Bookshop.org[9:05]
- What You Leave Behind by Wanda M. Morris (June 18) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [17:59]
Catherine's Picks
- Swift River by Essie Chambers (June 4) | Amazon
- Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo (June 18) | Amazon | Bookshop.org[14:34]
- All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (June 25) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [21:17]
- How the Light Gets In
by Joyce Maynard (June 25) | Amazon | Bookshop.org
Other Books Mentioned
- The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters [3:33]
- Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty [3:52]
- Real Americans by Rachel Khong [9:31]
- The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe [9:41]
- Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett [12:10]
- Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett [12:11]
- The Hop by Diana Clarke [13:26]
- The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo [14:42]
- All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris [18:16]
- Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris [18:21]
- We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker [22:38]
- Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra [23:10]
- At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard (memoir published in 1998) [32:29]
July
Sarah's Picks
- The God of the Woods
- The World After Alice by Lauren Aliza Green (July 2) | Amazon
- Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (July 9) | Amazon
Catherine's Picks
- The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella (July 2) | Amazon
- The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (July 2) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [42:11]
Other Books Mentioned
- Long Bright River by Liz Moore [25:22]
- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai [28:56]
- Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead [34:09]
- Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane [34:23]
- Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid [34:46]
- A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella [35:37]
- Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close [36:26]
- Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal [36:29]
- The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane [36:45]
- Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner [38:53]
- The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali [42:31]
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 2024 summer book preview. As usual for these |
| 0:46.1 | quarterly preview episodes, Catherine, Catherine, welcome, Catherine. Hello, hello, hello. Today, we're |
| 0:53.0 | highlighting the books we're excited about that are coming out from June through mid-August of this year. And Catherine, any themes with your picks today? I have so many themes. I'm a theme queen. How's that? I am hedging my bets in that my sticking with authors-you-know formula did not work at all for spring. |
| 1:15.7 | So for summer, I'm splitting into three new or debut authors and three repeats and hoping to get better reading out of it. |
| 1:24.5 | I'm covering four different decades in the 20th century. Half my picks deal with |
| 1:30.6 | the mother-daughter relationship. And last but not least, middle-aged women are front and center |
| 1:36.8 | for two of my choices. I love that. All those themes sound good. I hope so. How about you? |
| 1:43.5 | I have a wide variety of books today. I don't really |
| 1:47.3 | have a theme, I would say. I've got a thriller. I've got a family drama. I've got some books that are |
| 1:53.1 | on the more literary side that I did not read as contenders for the summer reading guide because I thought |
| 1:58.5 | they might be a little bit too heavy. And now that the summer reading guide is out, I can read that kind of stuff. |
| 2:03.4 | How nice. |
| 2:04.4 | I know. |
| 2:05.1 | And I've got something quirky. |
| 2:07.0 | Oh. |
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