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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 175: 2024 Micro Genres We Love with Susie (@NovelVisits)

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

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4.9 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 175, Susie Boutry (@NovelVisits) and I explore our favorite Micro Genres for 2024. Over the past year, we’ve continued to refine our reading tastes and identify specific themes and types of books that resonate deeply with us. This year, Susie and I have a curated list of 10 all-new Micro Genres, along with standout books from each category. It’s another big episode with tons of great book recommendations!

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CLICK HERE for the full episode Show Notes on the blog.

Cold War Espionage (Sarah) [3:19]

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Susie

Angsty Motherhood (Susie) [7:21]

Sarah

Susie

Memoirs About the Demise of a Marriage (Sarah) [12:18]

Sarah

Susie

Pandemic Stories (Susie) [15:26]

NOT Based on the COVID-19 Pandemic & More Dystopian [15:49] 

Sarah

Susie

With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Background [18:28] 

Sarah

Susie

Other Books Mentioned

Did She Actually Say That?! (Sarah) [23:03]

Sarah

Susie

Books Revolving Around Generational Trauma (Susie) [27:34]

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Susie

Co-Ed Friend Groups (Sarah) [32:18]

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Susie

Peace, Love, and Rock n’ Roll / Books Set in the ’60s & ’70s (Susie) [36:58]

Susie

Surprisingly High-Quality Celebrity Memoirs (Sarah) [40:33]

Sarah

Susie

Other Books Mentioned

Look Backs (Susie) [44:38]

Sarah

Susie

Other Books Mentioned

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 third annual microgenres we love episode.

0:46.3

And for those of you who are new to these episodes, you may be wondering what a microgenre

0:50.7

actually is because it's kind of a term we made up. It is a very niche type of book

0:58.0

that we can generally count on to work for us. And these are types of books that are not

1:02.5

technically genres themselves, but they are subsets of subsets of larger genres. Susie and I did

1:09.2

this episode for the first time two years ago and we've been doing it

1:12.1

annually ever since. And for the first time this year, we actually did a circleback episode where

1:18.4

we added books to micro genres we have shared in previous years. That circleback episode was

1:24.2

173 if you want to go back and listen to it. But now we are looking forward

1:30.5

and sharing our new microgenres we love for 2024. And Susie is back with me today. Welcome, Susie.

1:37.8

It's great to be back here, Sarah. This is always such a fun episode to do. And I think I have some

1:43.1

really exciting brand new microgenres

1:45.3

to share this year. And I don't know about you. I think you do this too, but we should probably

1:50.0

share with everyone. I keep a running list of new micro genres throughout the year as I come upon

1:56.5

books or as they come to me. So this is something that's kind of going on in the background all

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