Episode 562 || Unsung Books of 2025

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year! This week on From the Front Porch, Annie chats about the unsung books you may not have heard about in 2025. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 562) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood Before I Forget by Tory Henwood Hoen The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley So Far Gone by Jess Walter Among Friends by Hal Ebbott 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 The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller. 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.

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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	She gets a She guessed it all came down to hope.
0:27.1	Being able to have hope for the future when you were young, before the world let you down in all sorts of ways.
0:35.0	Asia Gable.
0:36.8	Lightbreakers. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent
0:41.7	bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week, happy new year. I'm sharing my
0:48.0	favorite unsung books of 2025. If you're craving more from the front porch, or if you want to listen to episodes ad-free,
0:56.9	join us on Patreon.
0:58.3	This year, listener favorite Hunter McClendon and I are sharing our monthly recaps of Our Conquering of the Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor.
1:07.3	Episodes air on the last Friday of each month, and it's never too late to start reading or listening,
1:12.8	or to cajole your friends and family into joining us too.
1:16.5	To join Patreon, just visit patreon.com forward slash from the front porch.
1:21.9	Three tiers are available. The $5 a month tier will give you access to our Conqueror Classic
1:26.8	episodes, including our
1:28.3	back catalog of episodes, and monthly porch visit Q&A sessions. The $20 a month tier will give
1:35.0	you ad-free episodes of From the Front Porch, plus a deep dive into some of Flannery O'Connor's
1:40.1	other works. I hope you'll join us. Now, back to the show. Before we officially say goodbye to 2025,
1:49.4	although I guess we kind of did at midnight, at midnight, because this episode releases on
1:54.5	January 1st. But before we really dive in to 26, I wanted to look back and see what titles I wish I had shared more about.
2:03.4	So these are the unsung books that might have flown under your radar. That doesn't mean
2:08.1	these are all five star books. It doesn't even mean that these are the best books of the last
2:13.1	year. I feel like we already kind of did that in our conversation with Hunter a couple of
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