Episode 595 || Literary Therapy Vol. 28

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s a Literary Therapy session! Our literary Frasier Crane, 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.

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Lizzy:

• The House of Mirth or The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

• The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe

• The Group by Mary McCarthy

Kate:

Literary westerns

• The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzales James

• Outlawed by Anna North

• God’s Country by Percival Everett

• News of the World by Paulette Jiles

• The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain

• The Plague of Doves and The Round House by Louise Erdrich

• Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Prioux

• Plainsong by Kent Haruf

• The Son by Philipp Meyer

• Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

• Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams

• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt

• The Dying Grass by William T. Vollman

• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer

Rachel:

Books about Spain

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafòn

• A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

• The Muse by Jessie Burton

• Alberto’s Lost Birthday by Diana Rosie

• Homage to Barcelona by Colm Toibin

Ellen:

Fantasy

• The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

• Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

• The Bright Sword (Arthurian retelling) by Lev Grossman

• Circe by Madeline Miller

• Starter Villain by John Scalzi

• Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

Romantasy:

• A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft 

• The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson

• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

• A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer l armentrout

• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

• Quicksilver by Callie Hart

• Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry

Lindsay: Literary palate cleansers

Humor/memoir

• Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly

• Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb

Kid lit

• Bloomability by Sharon Creech

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

• The Meaning of Maggie by Megan Jean Sovern

• Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

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This week, Annie is listening to Tenderness by Rowan Beaird.

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