Episode 406 || Annie’s Favorite Books Ever

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie tells you all about her favorite books ever! Don’t forget to join our bookish Patreon community and get your copy of Bleak House if you’d like to join our Conquer a Classic Book Club this year.

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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 order)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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 Decent People by De’Shawn Charles Winslow.

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