Episode 381 || Best Books of the Year (So Far)

We’re already halfway through 2022! In this episode of From the Front Porch, Annie and Hunter share their favorite books of the year so far.

The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

Annie’s Top Five:

• The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser

• The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

• The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

Hunter’s Top Five:

• The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser

• The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

• Trust by Hernan Diaz

• The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid

• Just By Looking At Him by Ryan O’Connell

Other Books Mentioned:

• The Lifestyle by Taylor Hahn

• Sula by Toni Morrison

• The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

• Flight by Lynn Steger Strong

• On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

• Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

• Night Shift by Kiare Ladner

• All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt

• Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

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 Also a Poet by Ada Calhoun. Hunter is reading Greenland by David Santos Donaldson.

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