Episode 538 || From the Archives: Audiobooks with Jordan Jones

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s another episode From the Archives! In this series, we’re sharing some of our favorite past episodes of the show while Annie is on maternity leave. Enjoy today’s episode from 2022 all about audiobooks with beloved guest and Annie’s husband, Jordan Jones, just in time for road trip season. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 538) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie's picks: Anna K by Jenny Lee, narrated by Jenna Ushkowitz (Libro.fm link)Falling by TJ Newman, narrated by Steven Weber (Libro.fm link)Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman, narrated by Kristen Sieh (Libro.fm link)Going There by Katie Couric, narrated by Katie Couric (Libro.fm link)How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz, narrated by Kimberly Wetherell and Rossmery Almonte (Libro.fm link)Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett, narrated by Katie Schorr (Libro.fm link)River of the Gods by Candice Millard, narrated by Paul Michael (Libro.fm link)Taste by Stanley Tucci, narrated by Stanley Tucci (Libro.fm link)Upgrade by Blake Crouch, narrated by Henry Leyva (Libro.fm link) The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson, narrated by Casey Wilson (Libro.fm link)You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar, narrated by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar (Libro.fm link) Jordan's picks: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, narrated by a full cast (Libro.fm link)The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien, narrated by Rob Inglis (Libro.fm link)The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, narrated by a full cast (Libro.fm link)The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, narrated by Jeff Woodman (Libro.fm link)Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough, narrated by a full cast (Libro.fm link)Defending Jacob by William Landay, narrated by Grover Gardner (Libro.fm link)When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, with multiple narrators (Libro.fm link)Furious Hours by Casey Cep, narrated by Hillary Huber (Libro.fm link)Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri, narrated by Daniel Nayeri (Libro.fm link)Death Is But a Dream by Christopher Kerr, narrated by Fred Sanders (Libro.fm link)The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe, narrated by Tom Parks (Libro.fm link) 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 listening to The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner, narrated by Dakota Fanning (Libro.fm link). 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...Beth, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, Jammie Treadwell, and Amanda Whigham.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small businessivably real, infinitely dear.
0:29.6	These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy broth, but then we named them and loved them, and in this way, brought them forth.
0:43.2	And now we must lose them.
0:48.4	George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardot.
0:52.8	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in
0:56.9	beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week we are dipping into the From the Front Porch
1:02.4	archives, a place not dissimilar to the Disney Vault, to bring you our favorite audiobook recommendations.
1:10.6	Before we get started, did you know, Audible is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon?
1:16.8	I'm not sure I would have fully been aware of that fact, were it not for my work here in the
1:22.1	book selling world, which is why, as both a consumer of audiobooks and as a bookstore owner,
1:27.2	I am grateful for LibroFM
1:29.0	and the ways they partner with independent bookstores. If you're not familiar, LibroFM makes it
1:35.2	possible for you to buy audiobooks through your local bookstore. You can head to LibroFM,
1:40.2	choose the bookstore you'd like to support, and then that store will get a portion of every
1:44.6	purchase you make. You can support the bookshelf by going to Libro.fm forward slash bookshelf
1:50.9	Thomasville. You can buy audiobooks there a la carte, or you can have a monthly membership, just
1:57.5	like other digital audiobook platforms. Jordan and I both have and use our Libro
2:02.8	FM memberships. Obviously, you can listen to audiobooks in whatever ways are most convenient for you.
2:09.1	Many of my friends use Libro FM, as well as Libby, a platform for libraries. But the bookshelf has
2:14.7	partnered with Libro FM since its inception, and it's a joy to have a
2:18.6	platform to recommend to audiobook listeners who want to support indie bookstores like ours.
2:25.1	Just go to Libro.fm forward slash bookshelf Thomasville to find out more.
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