267 || Recommended Royal Reads

Published: April 16, 2020, 9 a.m.

b'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\\u2019s 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 \\u201cI Do Declare!\\u201d with her sister Betsy. The books mentioned on today\\u2019s 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\\u2019s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today\\u2019s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.\\xa0 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.\\xa0 This week, I\\u2019m reading You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe. Courtney is reading The Splendid and the Vile\\xa0by Erik Larson. If you liked what you heard on today\\u2019s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you\\u2019re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff\\u2019s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free shipping on all your online orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We\\u2019re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.'