Episode 404 || Best Books of the Year

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie and Hunter (@shelfbyshelf) discuss their top five favorite books of 2022! To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website: Annie's Top Five: The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford Hunter's Top Five: The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka Trust by Hernan Diaz The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O'Connell Other favorites: The Book of Goose by Yiyun LiNora Goes Off Script by Annabel MonaghanDinosaurs by Lydia MilletHow Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie CruzOur Wives Under the Sea by Julia ArmfieldThe Town of Babylon by Alejandro VarelaPaul by Daisy LafargeLapvona by Ottessa MoshfeghClean Air by Sarah Blake 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. Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Spend Christmas in Thomasville! There is something truly special about the holiday season in Thomasville. From shopping for those must-have presents for everyone on your list, to the twinkling lights, sparkling window displays, and tempting smells wafting from restaurants all add to the festive feeling of the season. From downtown hotels, to delightful vacation rentals, book your getaway to Thomasville and add a little more sparkle to your holidays! Learn more and plan your trip at www.thomasvillega.com or @thomasvillega on Instagram. This week, Annie is reading Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston. Hunter is reading A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. 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 and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are... Donna Hetchler, Cammy Tidwell, Chantalle C, Kate O’Connell, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, Laurie Johnson and Kate Johnston Tucker.

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.
0:08.0	The point was that we both understood how easy it is to let your life pass along.
0:29.0	Totally in book, unless you take a risk, disrupt the expected patterns, and try to make something human happen.
0:37.0	CJ Hauser, The Crane Wife
0:42.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:47.0	And this week Hunter McClendon and I are here for our last collaboration of 2022, chatting about our favorite books of the year.
0:55.0	Just one last reminder, as we eat closer to Christmas, that I am joining author Melissa Zaldevare and podcast host Jamie Ivey for a little women book club as we close out this year and begin the next.
1:06.0	We're starting our reading on Christmas Eve and we'll be reading one chapter together until mid-February.
1:12.0	So one chapter of little women every day until mid-February.
1:15.0	Throughout these winter months, we'll convene over Zoom to share our thoughts, opinions, and reading experiences.
1:21.0	All ages are welcome and a familiarity with little women is not required.
1:25.0	Jamie's reading it for the first time and I know lots of first-timers like my mom will be joining us too.
1:30.0	To receive the reading schedule and to be signed up for the virtual meetings, visit www.cheerheron.com forward slash little women.
1:39.0	There's a link in the show notes too. I'd love for you to join us.
1:42.0	Now back to the show. Back in July on episode 381 from the front porch Hunter and I shared our top five reads of the year so far.
1:52.0	We wanted to touch base in the middle of the year and now we are back looking back on 2022 and ready to maybe kind of sort of solidify our top 10 reads of the year.
2:03.0	Hi Hunter. Hello. Are you excited about this?
2:08.0	I'm very excited to hear your top 10 because I need to know what I missed, what I need to prioritize.
2:15.0	I want to see what crossover we have and that way I'm very excited.
2:18.0	I'm excited because I think it's been a few years since we had a few years, a couple years since we've had a lot of overlap on our list.
2:25.0	And I like that because I like kind of reading what you're reading and you help me diversify my reading.
2:31.0	But I do think we're going to have at least a couple of overlapping titles this year and I'm excited about that.
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