Welcome to another episode of From the Front Porch! Annie is back to answer your literary dilemmas like a bookish Frasier Crane in volume 11 of Literary Therapy.

Before we get started, this is your friendly reminder that From the Front Porch is a production of The Bookshelf, an indie bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia. We’re in the throes of our second holiday shopping season held during a pandemic, and remarkably, our spirits are high. As you support indies like ours this holiday season, please remember to shop early, to be open to our suggestions when your first book preference might already be back-ordered, and to trust our deadlines. This year, December 1 is the deadline to purchase something from us and have it arrive by Christmas.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Finding Freedom by Erin French
Educated by Tara Westover
So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
Ecology of a Cracker Child by Janisse Ray
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson (currently unavailable)
Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson (currently unavailable)
The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington
Where I Come From by Rick Bragg
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Black, White, and the Grey by Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano
Memorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott
Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny
Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny (currently unavailable)
Misfortune of Marion Palm by Emily Culliton (currently unavailable)
Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer
Limelight by Amy Poppel
Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen (currently unavailable)
This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

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 Taste by Stanley Tucci.

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

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