Episode 344 || October Reading Recap

It’s already the final week of October! In this episode of From the Front Porch, Annie talks about all the books she read this month.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf. As our store heads into the last three months of the year, we hope you’ll consider shopping small.

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

• Bewilderment by Richard Powers

• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

• My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead

• Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King

• Writers & Lovers by Lily King

• No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• Untamed by Glennon Doyle

• The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

• So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang

• Chemistry by Weike Wang

• Shoutin’ in the Fire by Dante Stewart

• The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone

• I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

• The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney

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. 

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

This week, Annie is reading Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout.

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