Episode 576 || What Would the March Sisters Read?

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie shares the modern books she would recommend to the March sisters from Little Women. Listen to find out what books Annie would recommend for Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy if they walked into The Bookshelf.

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For Meg

• The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaffer

• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

• The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

For Jo

• Writers & Lovers by Lily King

• A Swim in the Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Masterclass on Writing, Reading and Life by George Saunders

• Bird by Bird : Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

For Beth

• To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

• The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman

• Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

For Amy

• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

• Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith

• Kisses and Croissants by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau

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, Tiktok, 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 reading Love By The Book by Jessica George.

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