In today’s episode of From the Front Porch, Annie and Olivia are discussing their favorite newly released titles of the month and highlighting books you’ll want to add to your TBR list!
The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf.
Mutual:

Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘em Dead by Elle Cosimano


Annie's List:

Other People’s Clothes by Calla Henkel


Black Girls Must Be Magic by Jayne Allen


What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris


Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson


Cost of Living by Emily Maloney


Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow


Good Enough by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie


This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley


The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka


Olivia’s List

The Appeal by Janice Hallett


The Boy Who Met a Whale by Nizrana Farook


The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang


Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocomb


Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee


Out of a Jar by Deborah Marceno


The Verifiers by Jane Pek


The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart


Other Books Mentioned:

Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett (back-ordered)


Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens


The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison (back-ordered)


So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow


The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris


No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler


Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler (printing on-demand only)


Brood by Jackie Polzin


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 Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford. Olivia is reading The Verifiers by Jane Pek.
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