292 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 4

Today, Annie channels her inner Frasier Crane to dispense bookish wisdom to her fellow readers.  The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased at The Bookshelf: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell Jack by Marilynne Robinson Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid Here For It by R. Eric Thomas Stand All the Way Up by Sophie Hudson The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier East of Eden by John Steinbeck Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Winters by Lisa Gabriele Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver The Sea Wife by Amity Gaige Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam A full transcript for today’s episode is available here. 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 The Ghost at Dawn’s House by Ann M. Martin. If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online books orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.