289 || Our Top Ten of the Year (thus far)

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Annie is joined by friend and bookstagrammer from @shelfbyshelf, Hunter, to discuss their top ten reads of the year thus far. The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf: Annie’s Top Ten 1. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi 2. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 3. House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister 4. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb 5. A Burning by Megha Majumdar 6. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi 7. Here for It by R. Eric Thomas 8. One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London 9. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid 10. Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix Hunter’s Top Ten 1. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi 2. Fairest by Meredith Talusan 3. Real Life by Brandon Taylor 4. How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang 5. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi 6. Kept Animals by Kate Milliken 7. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 8. Shiner by Amy Jo Burns 9. Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid 10. Cleanness by Garth Greenwell and I know You Know Who I Am by Peter Kispert Also mentioned: Memorial by Bryan Washington, Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland, Daddy by Emma Cline, and What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez. 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 Memorial by Bryan Washington, and Hunter is reading A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet. 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.

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South. The The storyteller says, I am here. Does it matter? The words that I've found in these books were a person calling out from a page. I am worthy of being heard and you are worthy of hearing my story.
0:37.0	It seems simple, but it's a bold declaration.
0:40.0	Are Eric Thomas here for it? I'm Annie Jones, owner of the
0:45.5	bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia,
0:49.5	and today I'm joined by Hunter McClendon of shelf by shelf fame on Instagram.
0:54.8	Hunter and I have the loveliest bin diagram of bookish tastes.
0:58.8	So we're touching base this week to evaluate our top 10 books of the year thus far.
1:04.4	Hi Hunter, hello.
1:06.5	Oh, it's so fun to get to talk to you.
1:07.9	We have not recorded a podcast episode in person since COVID. I know it has literally been yeah like I think they like maybe
1:16.9	early March if not late February. Yeah and then I haven't seen you since
1:21.0	about that time I feel like at one point you and Tyler did curbside pickup and I waved at you from
1:25.1	the sidewalk.
1:26.1	That's right, memories.
1:28.8	So you and I have kind of been texting because you do a very good job of keeping up with of your finger on the pulse of bookish awards season. So I think you and I have been
1:46.4	texting about our top 10 of the year. We're well over the halfway point. So many books have
1:51.2	been published. To be fair, so many books have yet to be published.
1:55.0	I know but it felt like a good time to evaluate our top ten.
1:59.0	So we thought we'd kind of we'd alternate titles and go kind of sort of in order and talk about why these
2:06.8	are our favorites and then at the end I thought what we could do is just
2:09.8	name if there are any you think like are on your radar for potential favorites but they're being
2:14.4	published later. Okay. I think I only have one or two of those. Okay, do you want to start with your tenth book?
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