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326 || Best Books of the Year... So Far

326 || Best Books of the Year... So Far

FromFrom the Front Porch


326 || Best Books of the Year... So Far

FromFrom the Front Porch

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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Jun 24, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week Annie is joined by friend, Bookstagrammer and frequent co-host, Hunter McLendon to chat about their favoirte books of the year... so far.
The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf.
Annie’s list:

Revival Season by Monica West


Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner


With Teeth by Kristen Arnett


Seven Days in June by Tia Williams


Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian


Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny


The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heather


The Guncle by Steven Rowley


Brood by Jackie Polzin


Olympus Texas by Stacey Swann


Hunter’s List:

The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc


With Teeth by Kristen Arnett


Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz


Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters


Milk Fed by Melissa Broder


My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee


Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro


Sarahland by Sam Cohen


Yes Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage


Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome


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 Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. Hunter is reading The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin. Thank you again to our sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com
If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.
We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.
 
Released:
Jun 24, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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Welcome to From the Front Porch, a weekly conversational podcast on books, small business, and life in the South, produced by The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia.