Episode 576 || What Would the March Sisters Read?

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie shares the modern books she would recommend to the March sisters from Little Women. Listen to find out what books Annie would recommend for Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy if they walked into The Bookshelf. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 576), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: For Meg The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaffer Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall For Jo Writers & Lovers by Lily King A Swim in the Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Masterclass on Writing, Reading and Life by George Saunders Bird by Bird : Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott For Beth To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green For Amy Loving Frank by Nancy Horan Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith Kisses and Croissants by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau 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 Love By The Book by Jessica George. 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 that greatness was their destiny, and they were already behind schedule.
0:34.1	An early moment of intimacy often involved a confession of this sort, a childhood vision,
0:40.3	teacher's prophecy, a genius IQ.
0:43.3	At first, with my boyfriend in college, I believed it too.
0:47.3	Later, I thought I was just choosing delusional men.
0:52.3	Now I understand it's how boys are raised to think, how they are
0:56.6	lured into adulthood. I've met ambitious women, driven women, but no woman has ever told me that
1:04.2	greatness was her destiny. Lily King, writers and lovers. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf
1:12.9	and independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia,
1:16.5	and this week we're continuing our new occasional podcast series
1:20.3	where I imagine what books I might hand sell
1:23.5	to our favorite authors and fictional characters.
1:26.8	This week, I'm recommending books for the
1:29.3	March Sisters. If you like my book reviews here on the podcast, you might be interested in joining
1:35.4	my private Instagram account, Annie's Five Star Books. For $50 a year, you can become a part of my
1:41.3	bookish community online. Through the private Instagram account,
1:45.0	you'll get access to my book reviews, both front list and backlist titles. I host monthly
1:50.1	Instagram story Q&As and share about the books I start but never finish. If you follow me personally
1:56.3	online, you've seen my reviews for years, and of course, from the front porch listeners will
2:01.3	always have access to my reading recap episodes. The private Instagram is just a place
2:06.2	separate from the bookshelf, where I get to be more detailed with my reviews, and five-star
2:10.6	book club members can also choose if they want to order my five-star reads each month from the
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