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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 202: 2025 Micro Genres We Love with Susie (@NovelVisits)

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 202, Susie (@NovelVisits) and Sarah explore some of their new favorite Micro Genres. Since starting the Micro Genres series, they've loved taking the opportunity each year to examine and define their tastes in these sub-sub-genres. This year, they have curated a list of 10 all-new Micro Genres, along with notable books for each category. With over 80 books mentioned, this is another year of niching down for some great book recommendations!

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Books Told From the Perspective of the Person Left Behind (Sarah) [2:26]

Sarah

Susie

We Begin at the End (Susie) [8:22]

Sarah

Susie

Other Books Mentioned

Big Business Women (Sarah) [14:34]

Sarah

Susie

Other Books Mentioned

Books By Irish Authors Telling Distinctly Irish Stories (Susie) [17:35]

Sarah

Susie

Other Books Mentioned

The Collective "We" Narration (Sarah) [24:33]

Sarah

Susie

Other Books Mentioned

Torn Between Two Lovers: The Women's Edition (Susie) [29:40]

Sarah

Susie

Fiction Modeled on Real-Life Serial Killers or Crimes (Sarah) [33:50]

Sarah

Susie

Books with Characters Struggling with Mental Health (Susie) [36:57]

Sarah

Susie

Other Books Mentioned

Dude Thrillers (Sarah) [42:45]

Sarah

Susie

Other Books Mentioned

Standalone Fantasy Set on Earth (Susie) [46:36]

Susie

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.

0:22.3

Welcome to our annual microgenres we love episode. And Susie is back with me today. She has done this

0:29.1

episode with me for the past few years. Welcome, Susie. Hi, Sarah. This is always a fun episode to do.

0:35.1

Well, it was your idea originally. Do you remember that?

0:38.7

No.

0:39.4

It was my idea, seriously?

0:41.7

Yes, it was your idea.

0:43.1

Because I wanted to talk about certain kinds of books.

0:45.8

Yes, I think so.

0:47.0

That's sounding familiar, yeah.

0:48.9

Yeah.

0:50.1

So if you're new to this episode, you might be wondering what in the world a microgenre is. It is

0:56.9

sort of a term we made up. And what we're referring to here are very niche types of books that

1:02.9

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

1:08.2

genres. They are subsets of subsets of genres. So here's how today is going to work.

1:14.4

Susie and I are each going to share five microgenres that have been working great for us lately.

1:19.1

And with each microgenre, we'll share a couple of example books that fall in that particular microgenre.

1:25.9

For paying members of the show, we are not going to be doing

1:29.2

our traditional superlatives in conjunction with this episode. Instead, Susie and I are each going to

1:35.0

share a few books we've read more recently that fit into two of our older favorite microgenre categories.

1:42.1

So we're kind of going to be adding to the list of a couple

1:45.6

microgenres that we've loved in the past. Yeah, and I found that really interesting because it's like

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