This week Annie is joined by friend, Bookstagrammer and frequent co-host, Hunter McLendon to chat about their favoirte books of the year... so far.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf.

Annie’s list:

Revival Season by Monica West

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

With Teeth by Kristen Arnett

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian

Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heather

The Guncle by Steven Rowley

Brood by Jackie Polzin

Olympus Texas by Stacey Swann

Hunter’s List:

The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc

With Teeth by Kristen Arnett

Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Sarahland by Sam Cohen

Yes Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage

Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome

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 Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. Hunter is reading The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin. Thank you again to our sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com

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