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. 

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