It’s already the final week of October! In this episode of From the Front Porch, Annie talks about all the books she read this month.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf. As our store heads into the last three months of the year, we hope you’ll consider shopping small.

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Middlemarch by George Eliot

My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead

Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King

Writers & Lovers by Lily King

No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang

Chemistry by Weike Wang

Shoutin’ in the Fire by Dante Stewart

The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone

I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney

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. 

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

This week, Annie is reading Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout.

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

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