From the Front Porch

284 || How to Start a Book Club

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This week Annie discusses how to start a book club and includes the view point of several of her book club friends.

The books mentioned on today’s podcast are available for purchase through The Bookshelf:

  • I'd Rather Be Reading by Ann Bogel

  • The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin 

  • Becoming by Michelle Obama

  • Writers and Lovers by Lily King

  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

  • Educated by Tara Westover

  • We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

  • The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson

  • The Dry by Jane Harper

  • Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok

  • Recursion by Blake Crouch

  • Wild by Cheryl Strayed

  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

  • The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller

    • 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 Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.

    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 shipping on all your online orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

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