Episode 574 || March 2026 Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie recaps the books she read and loved in March. You get 10% off your books when you order your March Reading Recap bundle. Each month, we offer a Reading Recap bundle, which features Annie’s favorite books she read that month. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 574), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Reading Recap Bundle Upward Bound by Woody Brown Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan One & Only by Maureen Goo The Mash Up by Laura Marie Meyers Joyful Anyway by Kate Bowler Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead by Mai Nguyen Unspeakable Things by Brooke Nevils Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It by Brooke Averick Celestial Lights by Cecile Pin All the World Can Hold by Jung Yun 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 Abby Offsides by Anna McCallie. 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.

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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	I don't know why I think I'll get extra points on my deathbed for going without.
0:29.5	I want Gus to say what he wants, to know it's okay to want everything he can imagine.
0:37.7	Annabel Monaghan, Dolly all the time.
0:41.8	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:46.5	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm recapping the books I read in March.
0:52.4	If you like my book reviews here on the podcast, you might be interested in joining
0:56.7	my private Instagram account, Annie's five-star books. For $50 for the year, you can become a part of
1:03.2	my bookish community online. Through the private Instagram account, you'll get access to my book
1:08.6	reviews, both backlist and front list titles. I host monthly
1:12.3	Instagram story Q&A's and share about the books I start but never finish. If you follow me
1:18.9	personally online, you've seen my reviews for years, and of course from the front porch listeners
1:23.9	will always have access to these free monthly reading recap episodes.
1:28.5	The private Instagram is just a place separate from the bookshelf, where I get to be more
1:32.6	detailed with my reviews, and five-star book club members can also choose if they want to order
1:37.2	my five-star reads each month from the store. There's a quarterly newsletter option as well
1:42.9	for the social media averse, and that newsletter
1:45.3	goes out at the end of this month. For more information or to sign up for the 2026 group,
1:51.7	visit annie B.jones writes.com forward slash five star dash book dash club. There's a link in the show
1:59.5	notes. Now, back to the show.
2:02.9	Reading recap episodes are some of my very favorite episodes to record.
2:07.8	Each month, I review the books I read that month.
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