Ep. 197: Summer 2025 Book Preview with Catherine (@GilmoreGuide)
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.7 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Summer 2025 Book Preview with Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books!
Today, Catherine and Sarah share 12 of their most anticipated books releasing from June through mid-August.
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Announcement
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Highlights
- Catherine and Sarah share some big releases coming this summer (lightning-round style).
- Of Catherine's six book picks, 3 are about sisters and most are from repeat authors.
- Sarah's choices feature 3 debut authors, 2 repeat authors, and 1 new author.
- And, 5 of Sarah's six books are European novels.
- From literary picks to thrillers to romances, they've got a range of books for summer.
- Sarah has already read two of her picks — and they're on the 2025 Summer Reading Guide (be sure to check out the full list)
- Plus, their #1 picks for summer.
Big Summer Releases
- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (June 3) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [2:12]
- With a Vengeance by Riley Sager (June 10) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [2:18]
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab (June 10) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [2:32]
- The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick (June 17) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [2:36]
- A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst (July 8) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [2:45]
- The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (July 15) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [2:57]
- The View from Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani (July 8) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [3:08]
- Worth Fighting For by Jesse Q. Sutanto (June 3) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [3:13]
- A Most Puzzling Murder by Bianca Marais (June 10) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [3:17]
- Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell (June 24) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [3:27]
- The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware (July 8) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [3:29]
- Don't Open Your Eyes by Liv Constantine (June 17) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [3:32]
- The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen (August 5) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [3:36]
Summer 2025 Book Preview [4:07]
June
Sarah's Pick
- The Compound
by Aisling Rawle (June 24) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [7:19]
Catherine's Picks
- The Catch by Yrsa Daley-Ward (June 3) | Amazon
| Bookshop.org [13:40]
- King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby (June 10) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [19:02]
- I'll Be Right Here by Amy Bloom (June 24) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [26:01]
Other Books Mentioned
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954) [10:01]
- FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven (2016) [10:04]
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1969) [20:29]
- All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby (2023) [20:55]
- Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby (2021) [21:00]
- Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby (2020) [21:01]
- White Houses by Amy Bloom (2018) [27:08]
- This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (2017) [27:52]
- The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo (2019) [27:57]
- The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (2024) [28:28]
July
Sarah's Picks
- Slanting Towards the Sea by Lidija Hilje (July 8) | Amazon
- Bitter Sweet
- The Rabbit Club by Christopher J. Yates (July 8) | Amazon
- Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke (July 15*) | Amazon
- August Lane by Regina Black (July 29) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [41:44]
Catherine's Picks
- The Satisfaction Café by Kathy Wang (July 1) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [33:37]
- Our Last Resort by Clémence Michallon (July 8) | Amazon | Bookshop.org[39:32]
Other Books Mentioned
- Shark Heart by Emily Habeck (2023) [18:12]
- Writers and Lovers by Lily King (2020) [18:17]
- The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue (2023) [25:06]
- Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler (2023) [25:09]
- Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates (2013) [28:57]
- The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (2013) [31:13]
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992) [31:15]
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008) [31:16]
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865) []
- If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio (2017) [32:37]
- Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang (2021) [35:16]
- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (2023) [35:40]
- Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (2023) [35:42]
- The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz (2022) [35:45]
- Girl A by Abigail Dean (2021) [38:21]
- The Death of Us by Abigail Dean (2025) [38:24]
- Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (2022) [38:28]
- The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon (2023) [40:16]
- The Art of Scandal by Regina Black (2023) [41:58]
- Colton Gentry's Third Act by Jeff Zentner (2024) [43:30]
- Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (2021) [43:41]
- The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton (2021) [43:46]
- Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2019) [45:01]
August
Catherine's Pick
- The Frequency of Living Things by Nick Fuller Googins (August 12) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [45:15]
Other Books Mentioned
- She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (1992) [48:08]
Other Links
- Sarah's Bookshelves | The Possibility of a Black Chalk Sequel: Guest Post by Christopher J. Yates
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 |
| 0:15.4 | real and sometimes a bit snarky about books and reading. Let's get rolling. Welcome to the 2025 summer book preview. |
| 0:24.1 | As usual for these quarterly previews, Catherine is joining me. Welcome, Catherine. Hi, thank you. Today, we are |
| 0:31.5 | highlighting the books we are excited about that are coming out from June through mid-August. |
| 0:42.7 | Before we get to our own picks for this preview, and we've been doing this for the last couple previews, we are going to quickly let y'all know about some big-time releases coming out this |
| 0:48.1 | summer that we are not going to be sharing as our official picks on the preview today. |
| 0:52.8 | But these are books that we know a lot of people will |
| 0:55.1 | be interested in. So I've got a couple and then Catherine's got a couple. Obviously, I'm sure you will |
| 1:01.7 | wonder when we get to the end of the episode, where is Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, |
| 1:06.4 | if we don't mention it here, right? Right. Yeah, that's obviously a huge book coming out June 3rd, |
| 1:13.7 | and I could not get a galley of atmosphere, which is why I'm not featuring it as one of my |
| 1:19.4 | preview picks. That's so bizarre to me. Well, I think there's a reason. I feel like there's been |
| 1:25.0 | less galleys floating around of atmosphere than there normally are for her books. |
| 1:30.2 | I have never had a problem getting a galley for her past, I don't know, five books, four books, something like that until now. |
| 1:37.2 | I just saw that there was an article, I think it was in Time magazine, something like that, where it talked about how she reportedly received an $8 million per book, five book deal from a new publisher. |
| 1:56.7 | Shut the front door. |
| 1:58.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:59.5 | Eight million. |
| 2:00.8 | Oh, good for her. $40 million. Holy door. Yeah. $8 million? Oh, good for her. |
| 2:02.1 | $40 million. |
| 2:03.4 | Holy cow. |
| 2:04.9 | For five books. |
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