This week on From the Front Porch, we have a new series: Annie Recommends! In this series, Annie curates a stack of books in a certain genre or theme for you – just as if you walked into our brick-and-mortar store, The Bookshelf. Sometimes, you just want a good book list.

This month, Annie recommends her favorite campus/dark academia novels and spooky reads. Plus, she’s curated two book flights for you to make your fall reading easy: a Spooky Reads Book Flight and a Dark Academia Book Flight.

To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search “Episode 498” to find the books mentioned in this episode), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app:

Campus Novels:

We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

The Explanation for Everything by Lauren Grodstein

Honorable Mentions:

The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon (unavailable to order)

Play for Me by Libby Hubscher

Spooky Reads:

Someone in the Attic by Andrea Marra

The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon

What Happened to Nina by Dervla McTiernan

Knife River by Justine Champine

Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra

Annie's Spooky Reads Book Flight - $134

Annie's Dark Academia Book Flight - $89.95

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, Tiktok, and Facebook, 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 Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby van Pelt.

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

Our Executive Producers are...Jennifer Bannerton, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Susan Hulings, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, and Amanda Whigham.