Episode 303 || Our Favorite Books of 2020
This week, Annie is joined by Bookshelf staffers Olivia Schaffer and Lucy Stoltzfus to discuss their favorite books of 2020.
The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased at The Bookshelf.
Annie:
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Olivia:
Crossings by Alex Landragin
March series by John Lewis
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Three by D.A.Mishani
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Lucy:
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
The Address Book by Deirdre Mask
Cuyahoga by Pete Beatty
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley
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 at @bookshelftville, 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 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 Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words by Andrew Morton; Lucy is reading The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan; and Olivia is reading We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen.
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