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.