Episode 568 | The Bookshelf Recommends: 831 Stories

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s an episode of The Bookshelf Recommends! In this series, Annie (and occasionally other team members) curates a stack of books in a certain genre or theme for you – just as if you walked into our brick-and-mortar store, The Bookshelf. This time, Annie, Caroline, and Kyndall chat about publisher 831 Stories, the romance genre, and their favorite 831 Stories novellas. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 568) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie: Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff Caroline: Set Piece by Lana Schwartz Kyndall: Hardly Strangers by AC Robinson 831 Stories Book Bundle, including all three novellas Silent Reading Hour tickets 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 Reservation by Rebecca Kauffman. Caroline is reading Comedic Timing by Upasna Barath. Kyndall is reading Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It by Brooke Averick. 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, Beth, Cammy Tidwell, Gene Queens, Jammie Treadwell, Joseph Shorter IV, Kimberly, Linda Lee Drozt, Nicole Marsee, Stephanie Dean, and Wendi Jenkins.

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. Because I think it's a good reminder that the passions of young girls are worth nurturing,
0:29.9	no matter how frivolous they may seem.
0:33.9	Alexandra Romanoz, big fan.
0:38.3	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:42.7	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm switching formats a bit to chat about romance novels
0:48.6	and how romantic fiction company 831 stories is changing the game, at least from our
0:53.9	perspective.
0:54.9	I'm joined today by marketing and events manager Caroline and inventory coordinator,
0:59.1	Kendall, to chat all about these fun topics.
1:02.6	Do you love listening to From the Front Porch every week?
1:05.2	Spread the word by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts.
1:08.3	All you have to do is open up the podcast app on your phone, look for from the
1:12.4	front porch, scroll down until you see write a review and then tell us what you think. Here's a
1:18.1	recent review from Shelby. Warm and welcoming. This podcast feels so welcoming for everyone and every
1:25.0	type of reader. This podcast not only gives me wonderful book
1:28.2	recommendations of every genre, but also inspires me to shop my local indie bookshops.
1:33.8	I'm up in North Carolina, the same town as bookmarks, and now have Thomasville, Georgia,
1:38.5	on my list of places to visit. Keep up the great work. Thank you, Shelby, and to all of the reviewers who've left kind words and thoughtful reviews for our show.
1:47.6	We are so grateful any time you share from the front porch with your friends.
1:51.5	Thanks for spreading the word about our podcast and our bookstore.
1:55.8	Now, back to the show.
1:58.1	So typically, we do these Annie Recommends episodes every, I don't know, a few weeks or so, every couple months or so, and they consist of these many reviews for a stack of selections in one particular genre.
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