Episode 299 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 5

Join Annie this week for a little literary therapy as she answers and consults listeners on their questions and reading conundrums.

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf:

• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

• The Ensemble by Aja Gabel

• There There by Tommy Orange

• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

• The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• His Only Wife by Peace A. Medie

• A Burning by Megha Majumdar

• Jack by Marilynne Robinson

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

• Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin 

• The Holdout by Graham Moore

• Defending Jacob by William Landay

• You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz (The Undoing on HBO)

• The Dinner by Herman Koch

• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

• The Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

• John Grisham

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 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 Anna K by Jenny Lee.

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We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.