Episode 575 || April 2026 New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s a New Release Rundown! Annie, Erin, and Olivia share the March releases they’re excited about to help you build your TBR. When you purchase or preorder any of the books they talk about, enter the code NEWRELEASEPLEASE at checkout for 10% off your order! To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 575), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie’s books○ The Midnight Show by Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne (4/7)○ Love by the Book by Jessica George (4/7)○ Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead by Mai Mguyen (4/14) Olivia’s books○ The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke (April 7th)○ Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer by Paige Classey (April 28th)○ We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune (April 28th) Erin’s books○ Like This, But Funnier by Hallie Cantor (April 7th)○ Small Town Girls by Jayne Anne Phillips (April 21st)○ The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Oliva (April 28th) 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 Amateur by Chris Bohjalian. Olivia is reading Young World by Soman Chainani. Erin is reading Detour by Jeff Rake and Rob Hart. 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 and ongoing tradition of loss, to break from the illusion that my experience was singular.
0:35.6	My Gwyn, Cleodong, would rather be dead. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the
0:42.8	Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. Today, I'm joined
0:47.7	by the bookshelf's operations manager Olivia and bookshelf floor manager Aaron to give you a
0:52.9	rundown of our favorite new books releasing
0:55.4	in April. Do you like hearing from Olivia and Aaron each month? Well, what if I told you there was a way
1:01.9	to have book selections by bookshelf staffers like Olivia and Aaron delivered to your door or to your
1:07.8	ears each month? Our shelf subscription program offers just that. Each month,
1:13.0	members of our team select their favorite book of the month to mail out to shelf subscribers.
1:17.4	There's a local pickup option, too, for those closer to our home in downtown Thomasville.
1:22.2	This year, we're offering two adult shelf subscription options, the Annie, lots of literary fiction and nonfiction,
1:29.2	and the revolving shelf subscription, which is perfect for the adventurous, eclectic reader.
1:34.4	Revolving shelf subscribers will receive books chosen by Olivia, shop mom Susie, shop dad, Chris, and Nancy.
1:42.3	If you're more of an audiobook listener, in 2026, we have you covered with our
1:46.9	audiobook subscription offered in partnership with our friends at Libro FM. You'll receive digital
1:52.6	audiobooks selected each month by Bookshelf Floor Manager Aaron. For more information about our
1:58.1	shelf subscription program, including kidlit options selected each
2:01.6	month by me, and sure, Isaac, too, you can visit bookshelfthomasville.com forward slash pages,
2:08.5	forward slash shelf dash subscriptions, or simply click shelf subscriptions at the top of our homepage.
2:14.8	There's a link in the show notes too.
2:16.9	This year is actually our 10th
2:18.6	anniversary of our shelf subscription program, and we're so proud of what literature we send out
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