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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 192: Spring 2025 Book Preview with Catherine (@GilmoreGuide)

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Welcome to the Spring 2025 Book Preview with Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books!  

Today, Catherine and Sarah share 12 of their most anticipated books releasing in April and May.  

This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!).

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

Announcement

  • Sarah's Bookshelves has joined Substack! Please note, we're not MOVING to Substack, we're simply adding Substack to the places we already put out content.
  • On our FREE Substack feed, Sarah's Bookshelves is offering all the content you already find on the blog, my Instagram account, public podcast,
  • On our PAID feed, we're offering all the content we also offer on Patreon. If you're interested in becoming a paying subscriber on Substack, visit sarahsbookshelveslive.substack.com for all the details and a full list of benefits.
  • If you're already on Substack, please consider following the FREE feed and sharing with your reader friends to help support the show.
  • One of the many benefits to joining as a paying member of either our Patreon or Substack Communities is gaining access to several bonus podcast episode series, including Book Preview Extras! In these episodes, Catherine and Sarah share at least 4 bonus books we are excited about that were not shared in the big show preview episode. Get more details about all the goodies available to all Superstar patrons here and all Substack paid subscribers here!

Highlights

  • Catherine and Sarah share some big releases coming this spring (lightning round style).
  • With a theme this season of "change," Catherine focuses on lighter fiction and thrillers.
  • Sarah's choices are evenly split between debut authors, new to her authors, and repeat authors.
  • Food novels, rom-coms, thrillers (two with a mistaken identity element), and lighter reading are the picks for spring!
  • Sarah has already read one of her picks — and one of Catherine's!
  • And, Catherine has already started reading one of hers.
  • Plus, their #1 picks for the spring.

Big Spring Releases [5:15] 

Backlist Titles Mentioned

Spring 2025 Book Preview [6:51]

April

Sarah's Picks

Catherine's Picks

Other Books Mentioned

May

Sarah's Picks

Catherine's Pick

Other Books Mentioned

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. Let's get rolling. Welcome to the 2025 spring book preview.

0:23.7

As usual for these quarterly episodes, Catherine is joining me. Welcome back, Catherine. Thank you. Happy to be

0:29.7

here. Today, we are highlighting the books we are excited about that are coming out in April and May of this year.

0:36.2

But before we get to those books, I have a fun podcast announcement for y'all.

0:41.4

And that is that Sarah's Bookshelves Live is now on Substack.

0:47.5

Woohoo.

0:48.7

Yep.

0:50.0

Before I say anything else, I do want y'all to know that this announcement will not affect you at all unless you want it to.

0:58.7

Nothing will be changing anywhere else you're already used to getting the Sarah's Bookshelves live content.

1:04.2

We're not moving to substack.

1:06.4

We're just adding substack to where we already put out our content.

1:10.0

A couple big reasons why we're doing this.

1:12.6

Number one, to offer an alternative to social media for our patrons and listeners who want to stay connected to us,

1:18.9

but don't use social media or would like to cut back on their social media use.

1:23.9

I know that's kind of been a big topic swirling out in the ether lately. I know it's been in my head. And I know some big name people on the internet have quit social media like Glenn and Doyle. Yeah. I have had my own ambivalence about social media for a while now, especially about how I as a creator kind of contribute

1:46.1

to all the noise that's making me feel overwhelmed when it comes at me. I'm also part of the problem,

1:53.3

right? And yes, substack is somewhere else I'm putting out content, but it feels different. It feels less noisy to me.

2:02.7

And hopefully, a side benefit of doing this is to get our podcast and all of the content

2:08.4

surrounding it in front of new eyes and ears through substacks discoverability infrastructure.

2:14.8

Discoverability is something that is notoriously difficult for podcast, and it's getting

2:18.5

more and more difficult as the space gets more crowded. And Substack makes it really easy for people to

2:26.6

discover new creators. So we'll see what happens there. All right, a little bit of logistics. First of all,

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