From the Front Porch

265 || Bookish Bingo


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Annie and Olivia sat down in the middle of the chaos to talk about The Bookshelf’s reading challenge (of sorts!) for 2020. We covered all sorts of categories, with a variety of books:

  • A Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton

  • Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani

  • The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

  • The BFG by Roald Dahl

  • There There by Tommy Orange

  • The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

  • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer

  • The Round House by Louise Erdrich

  • This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila

  • Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson

  • She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

  • Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

  • Brief Answers to Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

  • A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman

  • Wild by Cheryl Strayed

  • The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner

  • Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith

  • The Other Side of the Coin by Angela Kelly

  • Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkienn

  • The Martian by Andy Weir

  • The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

  • No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

  • The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon

  • Bread and Wine; Bittersweet; Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist

  • Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl

  • Flour + Water by Thomas McNaughton

  • The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin

  • Devil in the Kitchen by Marco Pierre White

  • Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

  • Illegal by Eion Colfer

  • Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi

  • Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Aliyy

  • We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez

  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

  • How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang

  • The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

  • The Great Gatsby and Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye

  • Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  • We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

  • Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey

  • Seven Days in Augusta by Mark Cannizzaro

  • Believe It by Nick Foles

  • The City Game by Matthew Goodman

  • Open by Andre Agassi

  • Find your Bookish bingo card 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's reading Friends & Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan.

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

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