Episode 457 || Staff’s Favorite Books of the Year

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, The Bookshelf staff share their favorite books of 2023! To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website (type “Episode 457” into the search bar and tap enter to find the books mentioned in this episode) or or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Olivia's favorite: The Widely Unknown Myth of Apple and Dorothy by Corey Ann Haydu Erin's favorite: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Kyndall's favorite: Happy Place by Emily Henry Felicia's favorite: The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin Michelle's favorite: You Are My Sunshine by Sean Dietrich 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 below. 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 Mercury by Amy Jo Burns. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. 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...Ashley Ferrell, Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Kate O’Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins.

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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. There is no explaining this simple truth about life. You will forget much of it.
0:29.6	The painful things you were certain you'd never be able to let go.
0:34.0	Now you're not entirely sure when they happen.
0:36.4	While the thrilling parts, the heart-stopping joys,
0:39.2	splintered and scattered and became something else. Memories are then replaced by different joys and
0:45.1	larger sorrows and unbelievably those things get knocked aside as well.
0:49.6	Until one morning you're picking cherries with your three grown daughters and your husband goes by on the gator and you are positive that this is all you've ever wanted in the world.
1:00.0	Anne Patchet, Tom Lake.
1:04.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
1:08.3	Thomasville, Georgia.
1:10.0	And this week I wanted to close out the year by allowing you to hear directly from books
1:16.7	of 2023.
1:18.5	We are finishing the year with a very fun goal met.
1:21.9	As you might remember, we've been working toward 1,000 reviews on iTunes and
1:26.1	thanks to all of you we have officially reached that goal. Thank you for telling friends and
1:31.6	family about our show.
1:33.4	Your support this year has meant our indie bookstore
1:36.4	in rural South Georgia reached an even wider audience,
1:40.0	and we are so grateful.
1:41.7	Now, as I said, I wanted to close out the year
1:44.4	with, of course, our list of our favorite books of 2023.
1:48.2	You've heard me and Hunter discuss our favorites in detail
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