Episode 579 || April 2026 Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie recaps the books she read and loved in April. You get 10% off your books when you order your April 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 579), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer (releases June 9) Lake Effect by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson (releases June 30) Down with the Shipmans by Meg Mitchell Moore (releases June 2) Everything That Is Beautiful by Louise Nealon (releases August 4) The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Make Nice by Ryan Effgen (releases July 14) Famesick by Lena Dunham The Half Life by Rachel Beanland (releases July 14) Judy Blume by Mark Oppenheimer April Reading Recap Bundle - $76 Lake Effect by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Judy Blume by Mark Oppenheimer 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 Monster of a Land by Lauren Hough. 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.
0:27.2	Isn't that all art is, Judy asked?
0:29.6	People having breakdowns?
0:32.4	How else are we supposed to get through to each other?
0:34.6	Louise Nieland.
0:36.8	Everything that is beautiful. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an
0:40.3	independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. And this week, I'm recapping the
0:45.5	books I read in April. If you like my book reviews here on From the Front Porch, you might
0:52.6	be interested in joining my private
0:54.3	Instagram account, Annie's five-star books. For $50 for the year, you can become a part of my bookish
1:00.8	community online. Through the private Instagram account, you'll get access to my book reviews,
1:05.7	backlist, and front list titles. I host monthly Instagram story Q&As and share about the books I start but never finish.
1:14.3	If you follow me personally online, you've seen my reviews for years. And of course, from the
1:19.6	front porch listeners will always have access to these free monthly reading recap episodes.
1:25.3	The private Instagram is just a place separate from the bookshelf,
1:28.5	where I get to be more detailed with my reviews. And five-star book club members can also
1:33.2	choose if they want to order my five-star reads each month from the bookshelf. There's a quarterly
1:38.6	newsletter option for the social media averse too. For more information, or to sign up for the 2026 group, visit
1:46.1	Annie B. Joneswrites.com forward slash five star dash book dash club. There's also a link in the show
1:53.7	notes. Now back to the show. Every month here on from the front porch, I review, go over, recap the books that I read in the previous month. So today I'm going to talk to you about the books that I read since we last convened here. I want you to know I read a lot of these books in preparation for summer reading. So a lot of these
2:19.3	titles are summary books, summary books in their nature and in their release date. So lots of
2:25.7	these are pre-order titles that you may want to have on your radar for summer reading. I'm going to
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