In today’s episode of From the Front Porch, Annie, Olivia and Lucy 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.

Annie’s List:

The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh

The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers

The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith

Chorus by Rebecca Kauffman

All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep by Andre Henry

French Braid by Anne Tyler

Olivia’s List:

Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik

Gallant by V.E. Schwab

Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys, Andrew Weiner, and Brittany Williams

Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Those Kids From Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly

Nine Lives by Peter Swanson

The Rhino Suit by Colter Jackson

Lucy’s List:

The Last Suspicious Holdout by Ladee Hubbard

Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

Conversations by Steve Reich

The Great Passion by James Runcie

We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole

Half Baked Harvest Every Day by Tieghan Gerard

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, The 101st annual Rose Show and Festival, here in Thomasville, Georgia. If you want to come for the weekend and experience the flowers, fun, food, and shopping in beautiful Thomasville GA, plan your visit at thomasvillega.com.

This week Annie is reading Beloved by Toni Morrison. Olivia is reading Aquanaut by Dan Santat. Lucy is reading African Founders by David Hackett Fischer.

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

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