277 || Traveling through Books

Annie is joined this week by her well-traveled friend and fellow entrepreneur, Morgan Thomason. Morgan is the designer behind Winsome Paper, a whimsical stationery brand. Annie and Morgan help listeners travel through books this summer as most of our travel plans are a bust (for now).

The books discussed on today’s podcast are available for purchase from The Bookshelf:

London picks:

• Ordinary People by Diana Evans

• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer

• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Europe picks:

• L’Appart by David Lebovitz

• The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais

• The Vacationers by Emma Straub

• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

America picks:

• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

• The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

• The Next Great Jane by K.L. Going

• Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

• Next Great Jane by KL Going

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Other hot summer vacation picks:

• Tangerine by Christine Mangan

• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

• Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy

• Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Annie’s Summer TBR list:

• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

• The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward

• Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

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 Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson and Morgan is reading Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty by Kate Hennessy.

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