Episode 510 || Unsung Books of 2024

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year! This week on From the Front Porch, Annie chats about the unsung books that may have flown under your radar and deserve more airtime. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search “Episode 510”) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Family Family by Laurie Frankel A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya GowdaWhat Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernanOne Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman by Abi MaxwellThe Book of George by Kate Greathead 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, Tiktok, and Facebook, 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 Rental House by Weiki Wang. 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...Jennifer Bannerton, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Susan Hulings, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, and Amanda Whigham.

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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 World War brings out the worst in people,
0:26.9	Mateo's father had said to him when he was a little older.
0:30.2	No, actually war shows us the worst that was already there.
0:34.9	Shilpe Sumaia Gowda, a great country.
0:38.3	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:43.3	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm sharing my favorite unsung books of 2024.
0:49.3	Now is a great time to remind you to follow the bookshelf over on Instagram.
0:53.3	As we kick off a new year,
0:55.2	we're posting about shelf subscription selections for January, our upcoming store events, and more.
1:00.8	Following us on Instagram is a great way to ensure you don't miss what's coming up next.
1:05.6	Follow us over on Instagram at Bookshelf Teaville, where you can keep up with all of our
1:10.1	upcoming store events,
1:11.4	behind the scenes shenanigans, and staff book recommendations. Now, back to the show,
1:17.7	Happy New Year. Happy New Year, everybody. Can you believe we made it? Can you believe it's
1:22.6	2025? I have ambivalent feelings about New Year's Eve as a holiday, as a concept, but I love a fresh start.
1:33.3	I love the turning of a calendar page.
1:36.1	I love feeling like anything is possible.
1:39.4	It's like Miss Stacy in Anne of Green Gables.
1:42.7	Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it, or at least
1:45.6	no mistakes in it yet. That's how I feel about New Year's. So happy New Year. It's January.
1:52.1	But before we fully say goodbye to 2024, although believe you me, I was ready. I do want to look
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