Episode 584 || June 2026 New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 48 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 June (and some July) 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 584), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie’s books Whistler by Ann Patchett Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer (June 9th, 2026) The Fervent Whites by De’Shawn Carles Winslow (June 9th, 2026) JULY PICK: The Half Life by Rachel Beanland (July 14th, 2026) Olivia’s books The Children by Melissa Albert The Heirs by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Voyagers by Meg Charlton (June 16th, 2026) JULY PICK: The Mortons by Justine Larbalestier & Scott Westerfeld (July 21st, 2026) Erin’s books Down with the Shipmans by Meg Mitchell Moore (June 2nd, 2026) Heather by Caitlin Mullen (June 9th, 2026) The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson (June 30th, 2026) JULY PICK: Not with a Bang by Temi Oh (July 14th, 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 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 listening to Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune. Olivia is reading The Final Chapter by C.B. Everett. Erin is listening to Heather by Caitlin Mullen. 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.

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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. There is a heavy price we have to pay for seeing things as they are.
0:28.9	The price is of our youth.
0:32.1	Andrew Sean Greer, Villa Coco.
0:36.4	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in
0:40.0	beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. Today I'm joined by the Bookshelf's operations manager
0:44.7	Olivia and Bookshelf floor manager Aaron to give you a rundown of our favorite new books
0:49.6	releasing in June. Do you like hearing from Olivia and Aaron each month? Well, what if I told you there was a way
0:56.8	to have book selections by bookshelf staffers like Olivia and Aaron delivered to your door or your
1:02.1	ears each month? Our shelf subscription program offers just that. Each month, members of our team
1:08.0	select their favorite book of the month to mail out to shelf subscribers. There's a local pickup option, too, for those closer to our home in downtown
1:15.0	Thomasville. This year, we're offering two adult shelf subscription options, the Annie, with lots
1:20.9	of literary fiction and nonfiction, and the revolving shelf subscription, which is perfect for the more
1:26.1	adventurous, eclectic reader.
1:28.5	Revolving shelf subscribers will receive books chosen by Olivia, shop mom Susie, shop dad
1:33.9	Chris, and Nancy. If you're more of an audiobook listener, this year we have you covered
1:39.4	with our audiobook subscription, offered in partnership with our friends at Libro FM. You'll receive digital
1:45.4	audiobooks selected each month by Bookshelf Floor Manager Aaron. For more information about our
1:51.2	shelf subscription program, including Kidlit selected each month by me and Isaac, visit bookshelfdomasville.com
1:58.1	forward slash pages, forward slash shelf dash subscriptions, or just click
2:03.7	shelf subscriptions at the top of our homepage. There's a link in our show notes too. This year is the
2:09.2	10th anniversary of shelf subscriptions, and we're so proud of what literature we send out into the world
2:14.2	each month. If you love our tastes here, I suspect you'd love them
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