Episode 270 || Building A Personal Library

Annie is joined today by her friend Hunter McLendon to talk all about personal libraries. What books do we buy, which do we borrow? What titles stay on our shelves forever and which ones make their way to a donation bin?

The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Bud Gardner

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

• All Adults Here by Emma Straub

• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld

• I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott

• The Topeka School by Ben Lerner

• Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

• Deacon King Kong by James McBride

• Handle with Care by Lore Ferguson Wilbert

• The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

• The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey

• Normal People by Sally Rooney

• Beartown by Fredrik Backman

• Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams

• Untamed by Glennon Doyle

• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

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 Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker and Hunter is reading and loving Writers and Lovers by Lily King. 

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