Episode 580 || May 2026 New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 55 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 May 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 580), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie's books: Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester (May 5th, 2026) Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It by Brooke Averick (May 26th, 2026) Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan (May 26th, 2026) Olivia's books: Five by Ilona Bannister (May 5th, 2026) Young World by Soman Chainani (May 5th, 2026) Night Objects by Eli Raphael (May 26th, 2026) Erin's books: Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel (May 5th, 2026) The Foursome by Christina Baker Kline (May 12th, 2026) Babylon, South Dakota by Tom Lin (May 26th, 2026) 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 Whistler by Ann Patchett. Olivia is reading The Mortons by Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier. Erin is listening to Into the Blue by Emma Brodie 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.
0:26.2	How cruel we are when we're young.
0:30.7	Or, to put it differently, how cruel is the perspective of youth,
0:35.6	the perspective from which you're certain that none of this will ever happen to you.
0:40.7	John Lancaster, look what you made me do.
0:47.1	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:48.5	Today, I'm joined by the bookshelf's operations manager, Olivia, and bookshelf floor
0:52.7	manager, Aaron, to give you a rundown of our favorite
0:55.5	new books releasing in May. Do you like hearing from Olivia and Aaron each month? Well, what if I told
1:02.3	you there was a way to have book selections by bookshelf staffers like Olivia and Aaron delivered
1:07.3	to your door each month? Our shelf subscription program offers just that.
1:12.1	Each month, members of our team select their favorite book of the month to mail out to shelf
1:16.4	subscribers.
1:17.5	There's a local pickup option, too, for those closer to home in downtown Thomasville.
1:22.2	This year, we're offering two adult shelf subscription options.
1:26.0	There's the Annie, lots of literary fiction and
1:28.5	nonfiction, and the revolving shelf subscription, which is perfect for the adventurous, eclectic
1:33.9	reader. Revolving shelf subscribers will receive books chosen by Olivia, shop mom Susie, shop
1:40.2	dad Chris, and Nancy. If you're more of an audiobook listener, we have good news.
1:45.8	This year we have you covered with our audiobook subscription offered in partnership with
1:50.1	our friends at Libro FM.
1:52.1	You'll receive digital audiobooks selected each month by Bookshelf Floor Manager, Aaron.
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