This week on From the Front Porch, it’s another episode From the Archives! In this series, we’re sharing some of our favorite past episodes of the show while Annie is on maternity leave. Enjoy today’s episode about Annie’s favorite books of all time from 2023.

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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott (unavailable to purchase)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Updated mentions since the podcast originally aired:

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

James by Percival Everett

Matrix by Lauren Groff

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 The Eights by Joanna Miller.

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Our Executive Producers are...Beth, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, Jammie Treadwell, and Amanda Whigham.