Episode 389 || Back to School Book Flights

This week on From the Front Porch, Bookseller Keila joins Annie and Olivia for a new kind of episode - Back to School Book Flights! They’ll be talking about book flights, where you pair three or more books around a certain theme or topic. Today, they’re pairing books around all things back-to-school.

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Annie’s book flight:

The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton

Admissions by Kendra James

Edinburgh by Alexander Chee

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Olivia’s book flight:

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Black Chalk by Christopher Yates

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian (paperback releasing 9/20)

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Keila’s book flight:

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

The Hawthorne School by Sylvie Perry

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

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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 reading Heretic by Jeanna Kadlec. Olivia is reading Babel by R.F. Kuang. Keila is reading Dead Flip by Sara Farizan.

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