326 || Best Books of the Year... So Far

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week Annie is joined by friend, Bookstagrammer and frequent co-host, Hunter McLendon to chat about their favoirte books of the year... so far. The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf. Annie’s list: Revival Season by Monica West Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner With Teeth by Kristen Arnett Seven Days in June by Tia Williams Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heather The Guncle by Steven Rowley Brood by Jackie Polzin Olympus Texas by Stacey Swann Hunter’s List: The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc With Teeth by Kristen Arnett Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters Milk Fed by Melissa Broder My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Sarahland by Sam Cohen Yes Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome 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. A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast 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 Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. Hunter is reading The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin. Thank you again to our sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com 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 book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Transcript

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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.
0:09.0	She wasn't the type of mother who yelled for her son from the bleachers. That wasn't in her.
0:29.0	Her love stayed caught inside her body like a crab trapped in a net.
0:35.0	Kristen Arnet with Teeth.
0:43.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and hey, we're almost halfway through the year.
0:51.0	Today, I'm joined by friend, books to grammar, and frequent co-host Hunter McClendon to chat about our favorite books of the year so far.
0:59.0	Hi Hunter.
1:00.0	Hello.
1:01.0	I'm so glad you're here.
1:03.0	You're my favorite person to talk about like recaps with.
1:08.0	You know what I mean?
1:09.0	Like we like to compare.
1:10.0	I love your national book award predictions, your Pulitzer predictions, and I just like kind of touching bases you mid year to see how our reading lives are going.
1:20.0	Yes, and I would just like everyone to note that I am your favorite person.
1:24.0	That's all I've heard so far.
1:25.0	I'm your favorite person.
1:26.0	Jordan, move over.
1:27.0	Ashley, move over.
1:28.0	Anyone in the world will move over.
1:30.0	It's me.
1:31.0	Hunter's coming in.
1:32.0	I just, I really, this was on the agenda.
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