Episode 382 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 15

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s time for another round of Literary Therapy! Annie is back to answer more of your reading questions and dilemmas. If you have a question you would like Annie to answer in a future episode, you can leave us a voicemail here.

The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

• Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

• Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Taste by Stanley Tucci

• Love & Gelato by Jenna Welch

• One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

• LibroFM

• Educated by Tara Westover

• Book Lovers by Emily Henry

• Beach Read by Emily Henry

• Flying Solo by Linda Holmes

• American Royals book series

• Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

• Liane Moriarty’s books

• Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett

• Competitive Grieving by Nora Zelevansky

• Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

• One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London

• The Vacationers by Emma Straub

• So Happy For You by Celia Laskey

• Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith

• Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

• Falling by T. J. Newman

• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

• David Sedaris

• Mary Laura Philpott

• Know My Name by Chanel Miller

• Going There by Katie Couric

• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

• Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore

• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

• Love & Saffron by Kim Fay

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 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 Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore.

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