267 || Recommended Royal Reads

This week on From the Front Porch, host and owner of The Bookshelf, Annie Jones, has a special guest joining her to tackle an important listener question: What should the royals be reading? Annie’s friend Courtney Kinsey is a fellow royals enthusiast, an avid reader and book club member, and a podcaster in her own right, co-hosting the show “I Do Declare!” with her sister Betsy.

The books mentioned on today’s episode are available for purchase on The Bookshelf website:

• The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

• The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

• Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel

• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

• American Royals by Katharine McGee

• Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

• Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

• The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot

• Dear America series

• Mrs. Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn

• Gone with the Windsors by Laurie Graham

Recommendations for Harry and Meghan:

• Burnout by Emily Nagoski (for Meghan)

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (for Harry)

• This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (for Harry)

• Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis

Recommendations for Queen Elizabeth:

• A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Recommendations for Charles:

• All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg

Recommendations for William and Kate:

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (for William)

• Untamed by Glennon Doyle Melton (for Kate)

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. 

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, I’m reading You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe. Courtney is reading The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson.

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