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 our 2025 summer reading special.

I posted my annual summer reading guide yesterday. It's on my website, sarah's bookshelves.com,

and there's a link in the show notes and in my Instagram bio. I've been putting together this

summer reading guide for 13 years now, which is insane.

Wow. I had no idea I would still be doing this 13 years later. And as of our recording date,

so this could change a little bit by the time you're seeing the guide in real life.

I've got about 45-ish books for you that I think would make great summer reading and have all

been personally vetted by me. Red start to finish, not just sampled. And they're divided into

five categories, something light or fun, something fast-paced

or intense, slow burn suspense, something with a bit more substance, and something different.

And Susie from Novel Visits, my annual Summer Reading Special co-host is back again.

Welcome, Susie.

It's good to be back, Sarah.

It's nice to be heading into summer as well. Yes, it sure is. So before we get into our summer reading

extravaganza, I do have an announcement to make. This is a two-part announcement. Both parts are

connected. So part one is my summer reading guide printable cheat sheet is available now.

It is a simple PDF that includes three things. Number one, list of all my summer reading guide

picks by category. There's an image-based list, like with book covers, and then there's also a text-based list.

And there are graphics in that guide showing which of my picks Catherine and Susie also liked.

The second section is bonus summer reading guide picks from our team, meaning Susie, Catherine, and

Chrissy. And then the third section is one bonus

summer reading pick each from my top recommendation sources from last year. And that will include

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