Episode 439 || Back-to-School Book Flights

This week on From the Front Porch, bookseller Kyndall joins Annie and Olivia for Back to School Book Flights! They’re talking about book flights: a stack of three books curated around a certain theme or topic. Today, they’re choosing books with back-to-school vibes.

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Annie's Back to School Book Flight

Stealing by Margaret Verble

Dear Regina by Flannery O'Connor

The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li

Olivia's Back to School Book Flight

Property of the Rebel Librarian by Allison VarnesAbsolutely, Positively Natty by Lisa GreenwaldRewind by Lisa Graff

Kyndall's Back to School Book Flight

What Happens After Midnight by K.L. Walther

They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman

Again But Better by Christine Riccio

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 Wedding People by Alison Espach (not yet available for preorder, releases in 2024). Olivia is reading Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis. Kyndall is reading Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings.

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