Episode 391 || All About Audiobooks

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie’s husband Jordan joins her to talk all about audiobooks!

The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf’s Libro.fm playlist (or as physical books from The Bookshelf):

Annie's picks:

Anna K: A Love Story by Jenny Lee

Falling by TJ Newman

Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

Going There by Katie Couric

How Not To Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz

Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett

River of the Gods by Candice Millard

Taste by Stanley Tucci

Upgrade by Blake Crouch

The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar

Jordan's Picks:

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkein

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon

Behind her Eyes by Sara Pinborough

Defending Jacob by William Landay

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Furious Hours by Casey Cep

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

Death is but a Dream by Christopher Kerr

The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe

Mutual Listens:

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

Directed by James Burrows by James Burrows

Calypso by David Sedaris

Survive the Night by Riley Sager

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. 

This week Annie is reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Jordan is reading Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri and The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe.

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Our Executive Producers are... Donna Hetchler, Angie Erickson, Cammy Tidwell, Chantalle C, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, Laurie Johnson, and Kate Johnston Tucker.

Libro.FM:

Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story -- one that supports community. All you need is a smart phone and the free Libro.fm app. You can shop The Bookshelf’s Libro.fm playlist here.