From the Front Porch

Annie is joined by her friends and casting experts, Courtney Kinsey and Julie Anna Helms. Every few months, Julie Anna, Courtney, and Annie brainstorm their dream cast for a recent book they loved. Julie Anna then allows readers to vote for their favorites on her Instagram @julieannareads. This week, they’re casting Finlay Donovan Is Killing It.

Finlay Donovan is Killing It is available for purchase at The Bookshelf, and you can cast your votes on our castings on Julie Anna’s Instagram stories on Sunday.

You can click this link to purchase Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano from us.

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Smile by Sarah Ruhl. Julie Anna is reading Rabbits by Terry Miles, and Courtney is reading The Dating Plan by Sara Desai.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Today Annie is joined by her cousin and frequent Bookshelf collaborator, Ashley Sherlock. Every season, they sit down at the metaphorical kids’ table to chat about what they’re reading, watching, listening to, and buying.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

• ”Adrift” by Mark Nepo (This is a poem from this book)

• Graceland, At Last by Margaret Renkl

• Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen

• What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind by Jennifer Senior

• Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer

• J.Crew Factory jeans

• Bookshelf reusable grocery bags

• UpWest

• The Common Room

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.

This week, Annie is reading Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer and Ashley is reading Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week Annie is back to answer listeners' literary questions and dilemmas in round nine of Literary Therapy.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

• A Place for Us by Fatima Fahreen Mirza

• Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• Z by Therese Anne Fowler

• A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler

• Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge

• We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

• Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson

• The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis

• The Address by Fiona Davis

• The Doll House by Fiona Davis

• The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

• The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

• Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson & Ronald Cotton

• Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney

• Normal People by Sally Rooney

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found below.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Matrix by Lauren Groff.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

In this week’s episode, Annie talks with Olivia and Lucy about the new releases you don’t want to miss this month

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Matrix by Lauren Groff

• Fault Lines by Emily Itami

• Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney

• A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti

• Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

• Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

• Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen

• Egg Marks the Spot by Amy Timberlake

• Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

• Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

• Pony by RJ Palacio

• Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray

• Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

• Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

• Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo

• Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by

  Dawn Turner

• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

• Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos

• Bewilderment by Richard Powers

• Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a

  Broken System by Jarrett Adams

• Mennonite Valley Girl: A Wayward Coming of Age by Carla Funk

• The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found below.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.

This week, Annie reading All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor. Olivia is reading Last Graduate by Naomi Novik. Lucy is reading The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

In this week’s episode, Annie talks about the books she read in August.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King

• Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

• Dear William by David Magee

• Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

• Finding My Voice by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

• When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough by Taylor Schaumann

• Let’s Not Do That Again by Grant Ginder

• Four Friends by William D. Cohan

• The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel

• Finding Freedom by Erin French

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week Annie is talking with store manager Olivia about some favorite titles shared with her by kids in the local community, and we thought it’d be fun for you to hear directly from the kids themselves.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

• Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

• Coo by Kaela Noele

• El Deafo by CeCe Bell

• Okay Witch by Emma Steinkeller

• Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

• Unsolved Case Files: Escape at 10,000 Feet by Tom Sullivan

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

• The Middle School Bites series by Steven Banks

• The Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maude Hart Lovelace

• The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

• The Unwanted series by Lisa McMann

• Camp/Click/Act by Kayla Miller

• Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Let’s Not Do That Again by Grant Ginder. (Published April 2022)

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

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This week Annie is back to answer listeners' literary conundrums in round eight of Literary Therapy.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Falling by TJ Newman

• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

• The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

• Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• Heating & Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly

• Brood by Jackie Polzin

• I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird by Sue Cerulean

• Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo

• What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer

• My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

• An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff

• The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff

• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler by E.L. Konigsburg

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough by Taylor S. Schumann.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Libro.FM:

Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story -- one that supports community. All you need is a smart phone and the free Libro.fm app.

Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link:

libro.fm/redeem/FRONTPORCH

Flodesk:

Do you receive a weekly or monthly newsletter from one of your favorite brands? Like maybe From the Front Porch (Or The Bookshelf)... Did you ever wonder, ‘how do they make such gorgeous emails?’ 

Flodesk is an email marketing service provider that's built for creators, by creators, and it’s easy to use. We’ve been using it for a couple of years now, and I personally love it. And right now you can get 50% off your Flodesk subscription by going to:

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The Bookshelf’s store manager, Olivia and Lucy join Annie this week to share their August new release rundowns.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Palm Beach by Mary Adkins

• When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen

• Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

• The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

• Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

• Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow

• Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger

• Dead Wednesday by Jerry Spinelli

• Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka

• Mrs. March by Virginia Feito

• Say It Out Loud by Allison Varnes

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King. Olivia is reading We Are Family by Lebron James. Lucy is reading The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Libro.FM:

Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story -- one that supports community. All you need is a smart phone and the free Libro.fm app.

Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link:

libro.fm/redeem/FRONTPORCH

Flodesk:

Do you receive a weekly or monthly newsletter from one of your favorite brands? Like maybe From the Front Porch (Or The Bookshelf)... Did you ever wonder, ‘how do they make such gorgeous emails?’ 

Flodesk is an email marketing service provider that's built for creators, by creators, and it’s easy to use. We’ve been using it for a couple of years now, and I personally love it. And right now you can get 50% off your Flodesk subscription by going to:

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In this week’s episode, Annie recaps her July reads.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey

• Rock the Boat by Beck Dorey-Stein

• Survive the Night by Riley Sager

• New Girl in Little Cove by Damhnait Monoghan

• You Have a Match by Emma Lord

• Falling by T.J. Newman

• Millennial Nuns by the Daughters of Saint Paul

• My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

• Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King.

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Listen in this week as Annie and guest, cousin and Bookshelf Community Manager, Ashley Sherlock discuss all things Ted Lasso.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey

• Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman (Beartown by Fredrik Backman)

• The From-Aways by CJ Hauser

• Frankly in Love by David Yoon

• New Girl in Little Cove by Damhnait Monaghan

• Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

• The Guncle by Steven Rowley

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engel

• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

• A Place for Us by Fatima Fahreen Mirza

• At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

• The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebowitz

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Falling by T.J. Newman. Ashley is reading The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller.

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week Annie is joined by friend, Bookstagrammer (@shelfbyshelf) and frequent co-host, Hunter McLendon to talk all things Jane Austen!

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

• Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

• Emma by Jane Austen

• The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

• The Prayers of Jane Austen by Jane Austen

• Karen Swallow Prior, “A Novel Approach to Virtue”:

  https://www.ttf.org/portfolios/online-conversation-reading-jane-austen/

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang. Hunter is reading Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead.

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie is joined by her mom, Susie to discuss books for sensitive readers.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins

• The Sweet Taste of Muscadines by Pamela Terry

• The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich 

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray 

• Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty

• The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

• God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney

• When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash

• Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey

• Rock the Boat by Beck Dorey-Stein

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Survive the Night by Riley Sager. Susie is reading When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash.

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week Annie recaps her June reads.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson (listed on Libro.fm)

• The Royals Next Door by Karina Halle

• Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney

• Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight

• Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

• Cheat Day by Liv Stratman

• Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

• The Layover by Lacie Waldon

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Hola Papi by John Paul Brammer.

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week Annie is joined by friend, Bookstagrammer and frequent co-host, Hunter McLendon to chat about their favoirte books of the year... so far.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf.

Annie’s list:

• Revival Season by Monica West

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

• With Teeth by Kristen Arnett

• Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

• Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian

• Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

• The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heather

• The Guncle by Steven Rowley

• Brood by Jackie Polzin

• Olympus Texas by Stacey Swann

Hunter’s List:

• The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc

• With Teeth by Kristen Arnett

• Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

• Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters

• Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

• My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee

• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Sarahland by Sam Cohen

• Yes Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage

• Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. Hunter is reading The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin. Thank you again to our sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week, Annie is joined by America’s government teacher, Sharon McMahon. Sharon is the mastermind behind the Instagram account Sharon Says So. She and Annie tackle how best to read to understand, how fiction helps cultivate empathy, and why becoming a lifelong learner is so important..

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf.

• Sea Biscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

• American Sherlock by Kate Winkler Dawson

• Dead Wake by Erik Larson

• You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe

• Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

Sharon’s favorite podcasts:

• Office Ladies

• Sharon Says So (coming soon!)

Sharon’s suggested press reading:

• Reuters

• Associated Press

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney and Sharon is reading Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Listen in this week as Annie and guest, cousin and Bookshelf Community Manager, Ashley Sherlock chat about their Summer reading, listening, watching and buying lists.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf.

Reading:

• The Guncle by Steven Rowley

• Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

• Klara & the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson

• Jo Rodgers’ column in House & Garden UK

Watching:

• Mare of Easttown

• Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

• Law and Order: SVU

• Friends: The Reunion

Listening:

• Phoebe Reads a Mystery

• Sour by Olivia Rodrigo

• The Wreckage of my Presence (Libro.fm) by Casey Wilson

• That Summer (Libro.fm) by Jennifer Weiner

• Mergers & Acquisitions (Libro.fm) by Cate Doty

You can join The Bookshelf on Libro.fm!

Buying:

• Iced chai latte with vanilla sweet cream cold foam and cinnamon dolce syrup from Starbucks

• The Common Room Shop

• Pickleball set

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford and Ashley is reading Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week the co-hosts of The Bookshelf’s I Want It That YA book club, Lucy Stoltzfus, also The Bookshelf's online sales coordinator and Olivia Schaffer, shop manager, join Annie to discuss nostalgia reading.

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase at The Bookshelf:

• Thwonk by Joan Bauer

• 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers

• Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

• Finding My Voice by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

• All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

• The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney

• Anastasia's Chosen Career by Lois Lowry

• DRAT! We're Rats by Jahnna N. Malcolm

• The Baby-Sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin

• Bloomability by Sharon Creech

• Baby-Stitting Is a Dangerous Job by Willo Davis Roberts

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby. Olivia is reading Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger, and Lucy is reading Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. 

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week Annie recaps her May reads.

The books mentioned on today’s episode are available at The Bookshelf:

• The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton 

• The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller 

• Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson 

• The Best Babysitters Ever by Caroline Cala 

• Home Stretch by Graham Norton 

• Palm Beach by Mary Adkins 

• Seven Days in June by Tia Williams 

• Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby 

• All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running by Elias Rodriques 

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling 

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Finding Freedom by Erin French.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week Annie is answering listeners' literary conundrums in this episode of Literary Therapy.

The books mentioned on today’s episode are available at The Bookshelf:

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Ramona and Beezus by Beverly Cleary
• A Deadly Education
• The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune
• House on the Cerulean Sea
• Once and Future Witches
• The Night Circus
• Cinder
• The Scorpio Races
• The Caraval series
• Devil and the Dark Water
• Piranesi
• House on Vesper Sands
• Sorrow & Bliss
• Brood
• Early Morning Riser
• Crying in H Mart
• Take Me Home Tonight
• The Best Babysitters Ever series
• Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann
• Competitive Grieving by Nora Zelavansky
• Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel
• Good Company 
• Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
• Somebody's Daughter by Ashley Ford
• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
• In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
• A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
• With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Rules for Visiting
• The Other’s Gold
• Young Jane Young
• Savage News
• Hello, Sunshine
• Rise & Shine
• The Dutch House
• Low Country
• Late Migrations
• Ruby & Roland
• A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better
• Fresh Water for Flowers
• Five Tuesdays in Winter
• The Harpy
• Milk Blood Heat
• The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
• All the Water I've Seen Is Running
• Britt-Marie Was Here
• Olive, Again
• This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance
• The Ride of Her Life
• City of Girls
• Hannah Coulter
• State of Wonder
• Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Home Stretch by Graham Norton.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week Annie is joined by friend and bookstagrammer (@shelfbyshelf) Hunter McLendon to discuss faith books.

The books mentioned on today’s episode are available at The Bookshelf:

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

• Home by Marilynne Robinson

• Lila by Marilynne Robinson

• Jack by Marilynne Robinson

• Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

• A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• The Trouble With Hating You by Sajni Patel

• The Mothers by Brit Bennett

• Here For It by R. Eric Thomas

• Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

• Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle

• The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker

• Lit by Mary Karr

• The Liars Club by Mary Karr

• Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead and Hunter is reading Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week Annie recaps and reviews her April reads.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers

• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• Competitive Grieving by Nora Zelevansky

• Kisses and Croissants by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau

• Revival Season by Monica West

• The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

• Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian

• When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain

• The Trouble With Hating You by Sajni Patel

• What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Annie is joined by her casting experts, Courtney Kinsey, FTFP royals correspondent and co-host of the podcast I Do Declare; and Julie Anna Helms, @julieannareads on Instagram and creator of Who Would You Cast? polls. The three are casting One to Watch this week.

One to Watch is available for purchase at The Bookshelf, and you can cast your votes on our castings on Julie Anna’s Instagram stories on Sunday.

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian. Julie Anna is reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and Courtney Kinsey is reading Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Listen in this week as Annie and The Bookshelf staffers celebrate Independent Bookstore Day by sharing their favorite things about indie bookstores and the books they love to sell.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf.

• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

• Furious Hours by Casey Cep

• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

• Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

• What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer

• Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Calb

• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

• House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading The Trouble with Hating You by Sajni Patel.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Listen in this week as Annie and guest, cousin and Bookshelf Community Manager, Ashley Sherlock chat about their Spring reading, listening, watching and buying lists.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf.

Reading:

• Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

• Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

• Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

• Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley

• You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Cole

• 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers

• Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen

• Upworthy on Instagram

• Poetry Is Not A Luxury on Instagram

• The Washington Post subscription

• The Marshall Project: Article about author Sara Gruen

Watching:

• Ted Lasso on Apple TV+

• Love Island on Hulu

• The Limit (workout program) by Beth Nicely

• Sharon McMahon of Sharon Says So - Government for Grownups classes

• Yes Day on Netflix

Listening:

• Taylor Swift: From the Vault

• Drivers License by Olivia Rodrigo

• Still Processing podcast

• Caul Baby by Morgan Jenkins

• Breezy Instrumental playlist by Kendra Joyner Adachi

• Hot Girl Walk playlist

• The First Spring playlist

Buying:

• Ally B

• The Bookshelf

• Material Kitchen

• Ashley has been buying grande lemonades with strawberries and two pumps of raspberry syrup on top from Starbucks

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Kisses and Croissants by by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau and Ashley is reading Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Listen in this week as Annie is joined by special guest and author Andre' Hadley Marria (The Songs I Could Not Sing) to discuss all things poetry.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• The Songs I Could Not Sing by Andre’ Hadley Marria

• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville

• The Prophet by Kalil Gibran (including poem On Children)

• The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• We Speak Your Names by Pearl Cleage

• Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You In the Morning by Alice Walker

Some of Andre’s other favorite poets:

• William Wordsworth

• Gwendolyn Brooks

• Langston Hughes

• Walter Wintle

• Edgar Guest (Sermons We See )

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week Annie recaps and reviews her March reads.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

March Reads:

• Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

  • The New Yorker article: Crying in H Mart

• Love Like That by Emma Duffy-Comparone

• It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morrill

• You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar

• Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

• Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

• The Summer Job by Lizzy Dent

• With Teeth by Kristen Arnett

• The Turnout by Megan Abbott

• The Second Season by Emily Adrian

• The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

Other books mentioned:

• Forty Rooms by by Olga Grushin

• The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

• The Push by Ashley Audrain

• Dare Me by Megan Abbott

• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

• Final Girls by Riley Sager

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Annie is joined this week by her husband and March Madness super fan, Jordan Jones to discuss their own bookish brackets.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• The Harpy by Megan Hunter

• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

• All Adults Here by Emma Straub

• Writers and Lovers by Lily King

• Normal People by Sally Rooney

• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

• Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland

• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

• Wintering by Katherine May

• Untamed by Glennon Doyle

• What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer

• All Things Reconsidered by Knox McCoy

• The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading The Turnout by Megan Abbott.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Annie’s mom Susie joins the podcast this week to discuss books for sensitive readers.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Summer House by Lauren K. Denton

• On the Bright Side by Melanie Shankle

• Stand All the Way Up by Sophie Hudson

• I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

• Everything Beautiful in Its Time by Jenna Bush Hager

• House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister

• Will the Circle Be Unbroken? by Sean Dietrich

• Burnout by Amelia Nagoski and Emily Nagoski

• A Gentle Answer by Scott Sauls

• The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan

• The Woman with the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff

• My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers

• What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann and Susie is reading The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week Annie puts her literary therapy hat back on to answer some listener questions.

To leave your own voicemail for an upcoming literary therapy episode, go here.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Libertie

• Early Morning Riser

• Caste

• Me and White Supremacy

• Is Your Allyship Conditional

• Everything I Never Told You

• Everybody Rise

• This Close to Okay

• Room

• Brown Girl Dreaming

• Before the Fall

• Dear Edward

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Join Annie this week as she recaps her reads from the month of February.

Some of the books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf.

Annie’s February reads:

• This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

• How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

• Share Your Stuff, I’ll Go First by Laura Tremaine

• Anne of Manhattan by Brina Starler

• Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge

• The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

Other books mentioned:

• Whiskey & Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith

• We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Caste by Isabel Wilkerson.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Annie is joined by Bookshelf staffer and online sales coordinator, Lucy Stoltzfus. Lucy's son Gabriel just celebrated his first birthday so in honor of him, the two will discuss Gabriel's reading tastes and see what books are his current favorites. 

Some of the books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf:

• Down the Back of the Chair by Margaret Mahy

• Harry Maclary by Lynley Dodd

• Jam Jam books

• Greedy Python by Eric Carle

• Pigeon Needs a Bath by Mo Willems

• Nanette Baguette by Mo Willems

• Won’t You Be My Neighbor by Mr. Rogers

• It’s You I Like by Mr. Rogers

• Hello Neighbor by Mr. Rogers

• Goodnight Veggies by Diana Murray and Zachariah OHora

• Vegetables Wear Underpants Vegetables in Underwear

• The One, Two, Three of Thankfulness

• ABCs of Kindness

• Ellie Holcomb

• When I Pray For You by Matthew Turner

• Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd

• Found

• Snowy Day

• Dress Can’t Dance

• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins and Lucy is reading Love and Fury by Samanatha Silva.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Annie is joined by frequent podcast contributor Ashley Sherlock. Ashley is a former Bookshelf staffer and social media expert, as well as Annie’s actual relative. The two are going to share what they’ve been reading, watching, and listening. 

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf:

Reading:

• Joy the Baker on Instagram @joythebaker (Sunday links)

• Upstream by Mary Oliver

• The Next Right Thing Guided Journal by Emily P. Freeman

• These Precious Days by Ann Patchett (article from Harper’s Magazine)

• First Comes Like by Alisha Rai

• Brood by Jackie Polzin

• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

• Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Watching:

• Fake Famous on Hulu

• Brittney Spears Documentary on FX

• Crocheting tutorials on YouTube

• Kate McKinnon Saturday Night Live clips on YouTube

• Sex in the City

• Encore on Disney+

• Dawson’s Creek

Listening:

• Table Manners podcast

• The Ringer Dish podcast

• Clubhouse app

• James Baldwin’s Home Records playlist

• Ashley’s (her own) Morning playlist

• Reply All: The Test Kitchen series podcast

• How I Built This podcast

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge and Ashley is reading Upstream by Mary Oliver.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Annie is joined by special guest and author Laura Tremaine, whose new book, Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First, is perfect reading for Galentine’s Day. Laura is also the host of the podcast Ten Things to Tell You, and her book’s mission intertwines beautifully with her work there, encouraging readers and listeners to open up and share their stories. 

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf:

• Share Your Stuff , I’ll Go First by Laura Tremaine (limited number of copies available, otherwise backordered until mid-February)

• Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Bloom

• The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• Five Wives by Joan Thomas

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week Annie is recapping all of the books she read in January.

All of the books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased at The Bookshelf:

• People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

• Culture Warlords by Talia Lavin

• The Push by Ashley Audrain

• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

• Jesus and John Wayne by Kristen Kobes Du Mez

• Thwonk by Joan Bauer

• The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

You were so kind and patient during our winter hiatus, so we wanted to bring you a bonus author interview today! We post author interviews to Patreon every so often, and this is one of them. If you like what you hear, consider supporting us there! Our guest today is Elizabeth Passarella, the author of Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York. Enjoy!

Annie is joined this week by Royal correspondent and frequent podcast contributor, Courtney Kinsey. The two debrief the Netflix sensation, Bridgerton and what books show lovers might enjoy.

The books discussed on today’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• To Have and To Hoax by Martha Waters

• A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler

• A League of Extraordinary Women series by Evie Dunmore

• Jo and Laurie by Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz

• The Cazalet Chronicles series by Elizabeth Jane Howard

• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

• The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory

• Emma by Jane Austen

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

• The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge and Courtney is reading Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

We are back! This week Annie is joined by frequent guest, good friend and bookstagrammer of @shelfbyshelf, Hunter McClendon. The two will discuss their 2021 reading resolutions.

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase at The Bookshelf:

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

• Emma by Jane Austen

• Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford

• The Removed by Brandon Hobson

• Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson

• The Round House by Louise Edrich

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville

• Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

• Swan’s Way by Marcel Proust

• Culture Warlords by Talia Lavin

• Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley

• Jesus and John Wayne by Kristen Kobes Du Mez

• The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

• Bloomability by Sharon Creech

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin and Hunter is reading Let’s Get Back to the Party by Zak Salih.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week, Annie is joined by Bookshelf staffers Olivia Schaffer and Lucy Stoltzfus to discuss their favorite books of 2020.

The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased at The Bookshelf.

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words by Andrew Morton; Lucy is reading The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan; and Olivia is reading We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week, Annie answers listeners questions about books, small business and life in the South.

The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased at The Bookshelf:

• Untamed by Glennon Doyle

• Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words by Andrew Morton

• Finding Freedom by Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie

• House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Wintering by Katherine May. 

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Annie is joined by frequent guest, friend and bookstagrammer, Hunter McLendon (@shelfbyshelf ) to chat about books they loved that you might have missed in 2020 since, you know, pandemic. 

The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

Weather by Jenny Offill

His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie

Writers and Lovers by Lily King

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan

The Silent Treatment by Abbie Greaves

Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch

Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

Kept Animals by Kate Milliken

Sisters by Daisy Johnson

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant and Hunter is reading A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara and Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich. 

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Join Annie this week as she recaps the books she read in November.

• Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia

• The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

• Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark

• Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

• Admission by Julie Buxbaum

• All About Us by Tom Ellen

• The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington

• Better Luck Next Time by Julie Claiborne Johnson

• Anna K by Jenny Lee

• Wintering by Katherine Mays

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Join Annie this week for a little literary therapy as she answers and consults listeners on their questions and reading conundrums.

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf:

• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

• The Ensemble by Aja Gabel

• There There by Tommy Orange

• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

• The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• His Only Wife by Peace A. Medie

• A Burning by Megha Majumdar

• Jack by Marilynne Robinson

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

• Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin 

• The Holdout by Graham Moore

• Defending Jacob by William Landay

• You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz (The Undoing on HBO)

• The Dinner by Herman Koch

• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

• John Grisham

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Anna K by Jenny Lee.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Annie is joined by one of her favorite members of her family’s kids’ table, Ashley Sherlock. Ashley’s the former events coordinator at The Bookshelf, a frequent From the Front Porch contributor, and a pop culture enthusiast, so she’s the perfect person to talk to about holiday reading and watching. 

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available at The Bookshelf:

Ten Blind Dates by Ashley Elston

The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss

Recommended for You by Laura Silverman

All About Us by Tom Ellen

Let It Snow by John Green, Lauren Myracle, and Maureen Johnson

Jo & Laurie by Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz

Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory

Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller

One Day in December by Josie Silver

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, I’m reading Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson. Ashley’s reading The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This week, Annie is joined by Bookshelf manager, Olivia Schaffer and online sales coordinator, Lucy Stoltzfus. The three talk all about holiday book-buying and sharing their favorite titles for gifting this season. 

A full transcript of the episode can be found here.

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf:

What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer 

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Ex Libris by Michiko Kakutani 

This Is a Book for People Who Love the Royals by Rebecca Stoeker

Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley

Accidentally Wes Anderson by Wally Koval

Creativity by John Cleese

The Zealot and the Emancipator by H.W. Brands

Cuyahoga by Pete Beatty

Crossings by Alex Landragin

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, I’m reading Admission by Julie Buxbaum. Lucy is reading The Heiress by Molly Greeley. Olivia is reading Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg. 

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Annie is joined by her casting experts (and now regular contributors), Courtney Kinsey, FTFP royals correspondent and co-host of the podcast I Do Declare and Julie Anna Helms, @julieannareads on Instagram and creator of Who Would You Cast? polls. The three are casting Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic this week.

Mexican Gothic is available for purchase in-store or online at The Bookshelf.

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found at www.fromthefrontporchpodcast.com. 

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, I’m reading Kristy and the Snobs by Ann M. Martin. Julie Anna is reading A Field Guide to Internet Boyfriends by Esther Zuckerman, and Courtney is reading The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson. 

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This Friday, we’re bringing you a bonus episode featuring author Steven Epstein. We don’t do a lot of author interviews on From the Front Porch, but when we do, we generally put them on Patreon. This month, we thought we’d give you a taste of what those interviews sound like, and offer you insight into what kind of content is available to our Patreon supporters.

For more bonus content, support us on Patreon here.

Steve Epstein’s true crime book, Evil at Lake Seminole, can be purchased on The Bookshelf website. Steve references this episode of Crime Junkie. 

This week, Annie brings you a reading recap of the books she read in October.

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf:

• Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks

• To Have and to Hoax by Martha Waters

• I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird by Sue Cerulean

• The Searcher by Tana French

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

• We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper

• The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, I’m reading Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Annie is joined by Hunter McLendon from @shelfbyshelf to reflect on their 2020 reading of Anna Karenina. Join them on Patreon to hear recaps and reviews of all eight parts of Tolstoy’s classic.

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available at The Bookshelf:

Anna Karenina

Anna K

East of Eden

Rebecca

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading The Searcher by Tana French. Hunter is reading Memorial by Bryan Washington.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Annie is joined by Olivia and Lucy this week to discuss the Baby-Sitters Club books and the enjoyment they've brought during these strange times.

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available at The Bookshelf:

Book Bundle one

Kristy’s Great Idea

Claudia and the Phantom Caller

The Truth about Stacey

Mary-Anne Saves the Day

Dawn and the Impossible Three

Kristy’s Big Day

Claudia and Mean Janine

Boy-Crazy Stacey

The Ghost at Dawn’s House

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, I’m reading I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird by Sue Cerulean. Olivia is reading Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood. Lucy is reading The National Road by Tom Zoellner.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Today, Annie channels her inner Frasier Crane to dispense bookish wisdom to her fellow readers. 

The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased at The Bookshelf:

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister

• Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan

• This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell

• Jack by Marilynne Robinson

• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

• Here For It by R. Eric Thomas

• Stand All the Way Up by Sophie Hudson

• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

• This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison

• The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey

• The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi

• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• The Winters by Lisa Gabriele

• Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin

• Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

• We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

• Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb

• Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

• The Sea Wife by Amity Gaige

• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

A full transcript for today’s episode is available here.

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading The Ghost at Dawn’s House by Ann M. Martin.

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