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From the Front Porch

290 || Books for Every Enneagram Type

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Annie is joined by Jordan Jones, her husband who also happens to be an attorney and personality typing expert. Today, they’re chatting about the Enneagram and making book recommendations for each type. Enneagram 1: East of Eden by John Steinbeck or Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski Enneagram 2: Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel or A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza Enneagram 3: The Best of Me by David Sedaris or Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Enneagram 4: The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon or The Harpy by Megan Hunter Enneagram 5: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi and Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Enneagram 6: Sea Wife by Amity Gaige and Text Me When You Get Home by Kayleen Schaefer Enneagram 7: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert and Here for It by R. Eric Thomas Enneagram 8: Untamed by Glennon Doyle and A Knock at Midnight by Brittany K. Barnett Enneagram 9: What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons and Hey Ladies! by Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss 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 Boy-Crazy Stacey by Ann M. Martin and Jordan is reading The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova. 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.

0:10.0

The Anyagram does not put you in a box. It shows you the box you are already in, and how to get out of it.

0:34.0

Ian Cron rode back to you.

0:37.0

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf and independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.

0:43.0

And today I'm joined by Jordan Jones, my husband, who also happens to be an attorney and personality typing expert.

0:51.0

Today we're chatting about the Anyagram and making book recommendations for each type. Hi, Jordan.

0:57.0

Hey, how's it going?

0:58.0

Good. Welcome back to the podcast.

1:00.0

Thank you very much.

1:01.0

Normally you just come here once a year.

1:03.0

That's right, but I'm assuming that since March Madness was canceled, you decided to make it up to me by putting it on this one.

1:12.0

I guess this will be your second podcast episode of the year. You're actually a frequently requested guest.

1:18.0

Oh, really?

1:19.0

Don't let it go to your head.

1:20.0

Let's see if I can uphold the standard.

1:23.0

Okay, so here's what I thought we would do today.

1:25.0

I don't really know if the Anyagram is still, I feel like it's still, I definitely feel like it's relevant.

1:32.0

It felt for a while like it was super trendy.

1:34.0

I don't know if it's still quite as trendy as it was, but you and I talk about the Anyagram constantly.

1:39.0

We utilize it in hiring and I use use it in managing the staff and between anyagram typing and the Myers Briggs.

1:47.0

I feel like you're pretty well versed in both.

1:50.0

But I thought today what we could do is walk through the different Anyagram types.

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