Today, Annie channels her inner Frasier Crane to dispense bookish wisdom to her fellow readers. 
The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased at The Bookshelf:
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister

Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan

This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell

Jack by Marilynne Robinson


Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Here For It by R. Eric Thomas

Stand All the Way Up by Sophie Hudson

The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison

The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey

The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi


Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Winters by Lisa Gabriele


Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin

Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo


We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

The Sea Wife by Amity Gaige

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam


A full transcript for today’s episode is available here.
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. 
Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D 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 Ghost at Dawn’s House by Ann M. Martin.
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