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Sorta Awesome

462 15 new releases we absolutely loved!

Sorta Awesome

Cloud10

Education, Society & Culture, Arts

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Awesomes, have you noticed that 2023 is just killing it when it comes to amazing new book releases?! Meg is joined by Sorta Awesome regular Katie Proctor, and they have so MANY books to discuss! From memoir to essay collections to literary fiction and all kinds of genres in-between, there’s something on this list for every reader. Not a Super Star yet? Today is a great day to become one! THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: *Green Chef: Go to GreenChef.com/60AWESOME and use code 60AWESOME to get 60% off plus free shipping *Rocket Money: Cancel unneccessary subscriptions with Rocket Money today. Go to RocketMoney.com/awesome. SHOW NOTES: Meg’s AotW: The Dating Detectives podcast Katie’s AotW: Sex Education on Netflix KATIE’S LIST Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Congratulations, the Best is Over! By R. Eric Thomas Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan Shark Heart by Emily Habeck The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood Tom Lake by Ann Patchett MEG’S LIST Tough Titties by Laura Belgray Failure is not NOT an option by Patrick Hinds True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren The September House by Carissa Orlando Woke Up Like This by Amy Lea MORE EPISODES FROM SORTA AWESOME: Ep. 408: The books that shaped who we are Ep. 461: The AWESOME LIST for Fall 2023 Ep. 456: Midlife with Mindy and Meg: The Ultimate Bittersweet Ep. 396: Beach reads round-up! You can find Meg on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! You can find Katie at her website or on Facebook and Instagram! And be sure to order her latest book Color Coded! Visit sortaawesomeshow.com for show notes on this and every episode. And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook or @sortaawesomeshow on Instagram, and @sortaawesomepod on Twitter! This post may contain affiliate links, which means we receive a tiny commission from the seller at no additional cost to you, if you purchase from them. We only share products and services we have used, tested, and love ourselves! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, friends. Welcome back to Sorta Awesome. I'm your host, Meg Teats. I am so happy to be joined today by our books and reading specialist Katie Proctor Katie

0:10.4

It has been way too long since you have been here telling us all about what is good in books in reading

0:17.1

But I'm assuming that you've been keeping your reading life going even when you're not here to talk about it, right?

0:23.4

Absolutely so many books my bookshelves are overflowing

0:27.2

Right, doesn't it feel like this year? We're gonna be talking books in reading you probably know if you hit play of this episode

0:33.4

You know we're talking about what we've been reading lately and what we've been loving in books lately

0:37.3

And I was telling you before we started recording

0:40.8

Strangely my list are all

0:43.3

2023 releases and Katie I have to tell you I like never up that much on the current releases

0:49.5

Are you kind of feeling like this is a good book year too? Yeah mine are

0:53.0

100% 2023 releases also so I was double checking that last night

0:57.6

So I was like I wonder if I mine are and they are so such a good year for books

1:02.0

It really is and it's so funny and so unusual

1:05.2

I almost always have a few that I've you know been meaning to get around to it finally get around to you know

1:10.2

From the past couple of years, but this year. Oh my goodness

1:14.0

It seems like no matter what genre of books are into there's a bunch of good stuff out there

1:19.5

So so much good stuff. So we are just gonna be kind of talking about what we've picked up lately

1:25.5

We're inspired by our dear friends over at the currently reading podcast to just talking about what we've been

1:30.5

Currently reading this year and what we've been into lately

1:34.3

So we've got a little bit of everything for you guys Katie has a fantastic list

1:38.7

I've brought a few that I have been checking out will be talking audiobooks will be talking in print books

1:44.9

We'll be talking all genres something for everyone on our list of current reads for us right now

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