In today’s episode of From the Front Porch, Annie and Olivia are discussing their favorite newly released titles of the month and highlighting books you’ll want to add to your TBR list!

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

Mutual:

Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘em Dead by Elle Cosimano

Annie's List:

Other People’s Clothes by Calla Henkel

Black Girls Must Be Magic by Jayne Allen

What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

Cost of Living by Emily Maloney

Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow

Good Enough by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie

This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

Olivia’s List

The Appeal by Janice Hallett

The Boy Who Met a Whale by Nizrana Farook

The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang

Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocomb

Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee

Out of a Jar by Deborah Marceno

The Verifiers by Jane Pek

The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart

Other Books Mentioned:

Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett (back-ordered)

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison (back-ordered)

So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler

Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler (printing on-demand only)

Brood by Jackie Polzin

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 The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford. Olivia is reading The Verifiers by Jane Pek.

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

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