Ep. 27: Fall 2019 Book Preview with Catherine (@GilmoreGuide)
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.7 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a special episode of the Sarah's Bookshelves Live podcast…the Fall 2019 Book Preview with Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books!
Catherine and I share our most anticipated books coming out for the rest (August – December) of 2019.
This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!).
Highlights
- Catherine and my success rate for books we shared in our Fall 2019 Preview episode.
- Our Best and Worst picks from the Fall 2019 Preview episode.
- Catherine tries to sell Sarah on giving Louise Penny a second chance.
- A new book from the author Catherine swore she'd never read again.
- A brief tangent about Catherine's rating system.
- Sarah's and Catherine's #1 Fall book picks.
Fall 2019 Book Preview
August
Sarah's Picks:
- The Dearly Beloved
by Cara Wall (August 13) | Buy from Amazon
[7:24] (My Review)
- The Other's Gold by Elizabeth Ames (August 27) | Buy from Amazon
[14:28] (My Review)
Catherine's Picks:
- A Better Man by Louise Penny (August 27) | Buy from Amazon [11:34]
- A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman (August 27) | Buy from Amazon [18:17]
September
Sarah's Picks:
- The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott (September 17 – PUBLICATION DATE CHANGED SINCE WE RECORDED THE PODCAST) | Buy from Amazon
[20:24]
- Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell (September 10, 2019) | Buy from Amazon [27:06]
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (September 24) | Buy from Amazon
[32:14]
Catherine's Picks:
- Quichotte by Salman Rushdie (September 3) | Buy from Amazon [24:50]
- The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman (September 24) | Buy from Amazon[29:42]
- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (September 24) | Buy from Amazon [34:46]
October
Sarah's Picks:
- All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg (October 22) | Buy from Amazon[36:52]
- Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (October 29 – PUBLICATION DATE CHANGED SINCE WE RECORDED THE PODCAST) | Buy from Amazon [44:47]
Catherine's Picks:
- Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts (October 8) | Buy from Amazon [38:55]
- Burn It Down by Lilly Dancyger (October 8) | Buy from Amazon [43:20]
- Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout (October 15) | Buy from Amazon [46:55]
- Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (October 15) | Buy from Amazon [52:36]
November
Sarah's Picks:
- The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan (November 5) | Buy from Amazon[40:48]
- The Innocents by Michael Crummey (November 12) | Buy from Amazon [50:08]
Other Books Mentioned
- Recursion by Blake Crouch (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [3:43]
- A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar (Catherine's Review) | Buy from Amazon[3:53]
- Beyond All Reasonable Doubt by Malin Persson Giolito | Buy from Amazon [4:23]
- Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [4:35]
- Bunny by Mona Awad (Catherine's Review) | Buy from Amazon [5:10]
- Ask Again, Yes
by Mary Beth Keane (My Review) | Buy from Amazon
[8:35]
- Still Life by Louise Penny | Buy from Amazon [12:34]
- The Submission by Amy Waldman | Buy from Amazon [18:26]
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell | Buy from Amazon [27:37]
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell | Buy from Amazon [27:37]
- The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman | Buy from Amazon [29:52]
- The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman | Buy from Amazon [29:52]
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett | Buy from Amazon [32:38]
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (My Review) | Buy from Amazon
[32:38]
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [32:38]
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Buy from Amazon [34:55]
- The Girl Who Would Be King by Kelly Thompson | Buy from Amazon [35:31]
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (July 16) | Buy from Amazon [36:19]
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead | Buy from Amazon [36:23]
- The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg | Buy from Amazon [37:07]
- All Grown Up
by Jami Attenberg (My Review)| Buy from Amazon
[37:07]
- Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg (My Review)| Buy from Amazon
[37:07]
- Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia | Buy from Amazon [39:06]
- Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan (My Review)| Buy from Amazon [41:00]
- Three Women by Lisa Taddeo | Buy from Amazon [43:38]
- Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson | Buy from Amazon [45:00]
- The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson | Buy from Amazon [45:08]
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout | Buy from Amazon [47:03]
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (My Review) | Buy from Amazon
[47:35]
- Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout | Buy from Amazon [47:35]
- Sweetland by Michael Crummey (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [50:23]
- Room by Emma Donoghue | Buy from Amazon [52:21]
Other Links
- My Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2019 (Sarah's blog post)
- Pam Cady's Instagram
- Sarah's Book Club Recommendations List
- Podcast Episode 16 with Meredith and Kaytee of the Currently Reading Podcast
- Podcast Episode 17 with The Pingel Sisters
- Revisionist History podcast
- Liberty Hardy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Sarah of the blog Sarah's Bookshelves. |
| 0:10.0 | Each week I'm talking with one bookish guest about two old books they love, two new books |
| 0:15.5 | they love, one book they don't love, and one new release they're excited about. |
| 0:20.5 | We're going to get real and sometimes a |
| 0:22.1 | little bit snarky about all things books. This is a brand new podcast. So if you like it, I'd really |
| 0:28.1 | love your support. Please spread the word to your reader friends. Subscribe to the show and rate and |
| 0:33.3 | review it wherever you listen to podcasts. Let's get rolling. Hey everyone, welcome to Sarah's |
| 0:38.8 | Bookshelves Live. Before we get into today's episode, I have a quick announcement. We are getting |
| 0:44.4 | to the end of the summer, which means that the podcast's biweekly summer airing schedule will be |
| 0:50.4 | ending soon, and I know y'all are probably curious to see what's going to happen come fall. |
| 0:56.1 | So I wanted to fill you in about that. I will be going back to a weekly airing schedule |
| 1:01.1 | starting after Labor Day, but things will look just a little bit different than they were prior to |
| 1:07.1 | this summer. Every other week, I will have full-length episodes, just like you're used to. |
| 1:12.6 | And then on the off-winks, I will have many episodes. And these will be episodes where I will have |
| 1:19.6 | regular readers and book bloggers and bookstagramers on. It will just be the book recommendation |
| 1:26.4 | portion of the show. So there will not be a long |
| 1:28.7 | discussion in the beginning and there will not be a rated game at the end. And each episode will be |
| 1:33.4 | 20 minutes or less. For these many episodes, this is the opportunity for all y'all to come on the |
| 1:40.9 | show if you want. I surveyed you all a while back and i heard that you wanted to |
| 1:45.9 | hear from regular readers so i think this will be a really good way to do that and this will also keep |
| 1:51.5 | my workload manageable which i got to be honest y'all last winter it was not manageable and i i realized |
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