Episode 279 || What Would Susie Read?

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie is joined by her mom, Susie Butterworth who shares her suggested PG books for sensitive readers.

All of the books discussed in this episode can be purchased at The Bookshelf:

• Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

• Anne of Green Gables by by Lucy Maud Montgomery

• Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy

• Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Henry

• Educated by Tara Westover

• The Love Story of Missy Carmichael by Beth Morrey

• Mr. Malcom’s List by Suzanne Allain

• The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

• Stand All the Way Up by Sophie Hudson

• Little House on the Prairie collection by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Betsy-Tacy Treasury collection by Maud Hart Lovelace

• Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

• Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

• Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland

• The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant

• All-of-a-Kind Family Book Series by Sydney Taylor

• We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

• The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

• Mother to Son by Jasmine L. Holmes

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

• All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor

• The Crosswicks Journal Series by Madeline L’’Engle

• A Rhythm of Prayer by Sarah Bessey

• Miracles and Other Reasonable Things by Sarah Bessey

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 Tiny Imperfections by Alli Frank and Asha Youmans and Susie is reading Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin.

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