Hannah’s Books
@hannahsbooks.bsky.social
Booktuber, critic (LARB, On the Seawall, Star Tribune, Harvard Review, Washington Independent Review), & editor (Open Letters Review)
Channel: https://youtube.com/@hannahsbooks?si=v-79sijX5BcdoJXn
Links to book reviews: https://hannahjoyner.com/blog
Channel: https://youtube.com/@hannahsbooks?si=v-79sijX5BcdoJXn
Links to book reviews: https://hannahjoyner.com/blog
VICTOBER is the place where we celebrate all things Victorian during the month of October. Now is the time to start planning our TBRs for Victober 2025--the tenth edition! Join us, on YouTube and across social media.
Group Read and Challenges in the comments.
#victober #booksky #victorian #books
Group Read and Challenges in the comments.
#victober #booksky #victorian #books
September 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
VICTOBER is the place where we celebrate all things Victorian during the month of October. Now is the time to start planning our TBRs for Victober 2025--the tenth edition! Join us, on YouTube and across social media.
Group Read and Challenges in the comments.
#victober #booksky #victorian #books
Group Read and Challenges in the comments.
#victober #booksky #victorian #books
This week’s #fridayreads is AUTHORITY, the forthcoming book of essays and criticism by Andrea Long Chu—accompanied by a 221B Baker Brown from Redbeard Brewing in Staunton, VA. Perfect start to a literary weekend.
March 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This week’s #fridayreads is AUTHORITY, the forthcoming book of essays and criticism by Andrea Long Chu—accompanied by a 221B Baker Brown from Redbeard Brewing in Staunton, VA. Perfect start to a literary weekend.
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NBCC member Hannah Joyner reviewed "Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today" by Scott Spillman for the Washington Independent Review of Books:
Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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March 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
NBCC member Hannah Joyner reviewed "Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today" by Scott Spillman for the Washington Independent Review of Books:
I'm thrilled to have had the opportunity to write about this important new work for the Washington Independent Review of Books.
"A reflection on the ways historians frame the peculiar institution." www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/m... @hannahsbooks.bsky.social #booksky
March 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I'm thrilled to have had the opportunity to write about this important new work for the Washington Independent Review of Books.
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“The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.” Cynthia Ozick has always shied from literary celebrity, resting her faith in the work itself. Now she's collected some of it--both stories and essays--in a magnificent new volume. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Fiction: Cynthia Ozick’s ‘In a Yellow Wood’
The writer’s hefty collection of short stories and essays defies boundaries and offers a bold retrospective on her own long literary career.
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March 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.” Cynthia Ozick has always shied from literary celebrity, resting her faith in the work itself. Now she's collected some of it--both stories and essays--in a magnificent new volume. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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NBCC member Hannah Joyner reviewed "Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism" by Randall Fuller for @olreview.bsky.social:
Bright Circle by Randall Fuller — Open Letters Review
How women experienced—and shaped—Transcendentalist thought in 19th-century New England.
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January 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
NBCC member Hannah Joyner reviewed "Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism" by Randall Fuller for @olreview.bsky.social:
What a pleasure to review Randall Fuller's smart and moving new book BRIGHT CIRCLE!
Hannah Joyner reviews a new group biography of five pioneering women in the transcendentalist movement, Bright Circle by Randall Fuller, out from Oxford University Press:
openlettersreview.com/posts/bright...
openlettersreview.com/posts/bright...
Bright Circle by Randall Fuller — Open Letters Review
How women experienced—and shaped—Transcendentalist thought in 19th-century New England.
openlettersreview.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
What a pleasure to review Randall Fuller's smart and moving new book BRIGHT CIRCLE!
Nighttime #FridayReads: Wanting a history of a heroic & compassionate government worker who fights the good fight, I've picked up the brand new Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkin's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany, by Rebecca Brenner Graham. #booksky @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
January 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Nighttime #FridayReads: Wanting a history of a heroic & compassionate government worker who fights the good fight, I've picked up the brand new Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkin's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany, by Rebecca Brenner Graham. #booksky @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
It is always an honor to write for OLR!
Hannah Joyner reviews the private writing of a public intellectual, What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt, Translated and edited by Samantha Rose Hill with Genese Grill, out from @liveright.bsky.social:
openlettersreview.com/posts/what-r...
openlettersreview.com/posts/what-r...
What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt — Open Letters Review
The private writing of a public intellectual.
openlettersreview.com
January 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It is always an honor to write for OLR!
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A moving piece by @hannahsbooks.bsky.social on Hannah Arendt's posthumously published poems, which she carried with her from Germany to her internment in France and to her new life in the U.S. Unknown to her friends, “her poems were her private life.” openlettersreview.com/posts/what-r...
What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt — Open Letters Review
The private writing of a public intellectual.
openlettersreview.com
January 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A moving piece by @hannahsbooks.bsky.social on Hannah Arendt's posthumously published poems, which she carried with her from Germany to her internment in France and to her new life in the U.S. Unknown to her friends, “her poems were her private life.” openlettersreview.com/posts/what-r...
#FridayReads --on Saturday: a beautiful new edition of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, with an introduction by Merve Emre, put out by Everyman's Library.
January 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#FridayReads --on Saturday: a beautiful new edition of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, with an introduction by Merve Emre, put out by Everyman's Library.
#FridayReads: the new What Remains: Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt, translated by Hill & Grill. Arendt—the political philosopher who wrote Origins of Totalitarianism—is having a moment right now in our fraught political climate. This collection is the 1st English-lang translation of her poetry.
January 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
#FridayReads: the new What Remains: Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt, translated by Hill & Grill. Arendt—the political philosopher who wrote Origins of Totalitarianism—is having a moment right now in our fraught political climate. This collection is the 1st English-lang translation of her poetry.
Since this is the Year of Proust over on booktube, I am spending part of my day with Swann’s Way. #FridayReads
Happy #FridayReads!
Please share your current book here so we can build a great recommendations list.
I'm about to start THE DREAM HOTEL by Laila Lalami. Can't wait!
Please share your current book here so we can build a great recommendations list.
I'm about to start THE DREAM HOTEL by Laila Lalami. Can't wait!
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January 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Since this is the Year of Proust over on booktube, I am spending part of my day with Swann’s Way. #FridayReads
I loved the most recent @onebrightbook.bsky.social podcast—and was thrilled to hear the hosts’ discussion of both Dayswork by Bachelder and Huber (one of my 2024 faves) and The Country of Pointed Firs (one of my all-time favorites). Go listen to their wonderful discussion!
December 25, 2024 at 2:34 AM
I loved the most recent @onebrightbook.bsky.social podcast—and was thrilled to hear the hosts’ discussion of both Dayswork by Bachelder and Huber (one of my 2024 faves) and The Country of Pointed Firs (one of my all-time favorites). Go listen to their wonderful discussion!
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 20: My own book!
Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson
by Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 20: My own book!
Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson
by Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
December 23, 2024 at 11:59 PM
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 20: My own book!
Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson
by Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 20: My own book!
Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson
by Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
My lifetime favorite book!
Day 19: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
My lifetime favorite book!
Day 19: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
December 22, 2024 at 10:54 PM
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
My lifetime favorite book!
Day 19: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
My lifetime favorite book!
Day 19: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 18: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 18: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
December 20, 2024 at 1:10 AM
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 18: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 18: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 17: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
December 18, 2024 at 9:21 PM
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 17: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
💙📚 Show your favorite pulp-style book cover—of any genre . Shocking, tawdry, gross, funny, or inappropriate. #booksky #pulpbookcovers
December 15, 2024 at 5:38 PM
💙📚 Show your favorite pulp-style book cover—of any genre . Shocking, tawdry, gross, funny, or inappropriate. #booksky #pulpbookcovers
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16: Emma by Jane Austen
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 16: Emma by Jane Austen
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
December 15, 2024 at 1:05 AM
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16: Emma by Jane Austen
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 16: Emma by Jane Austen
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you; one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15: Eudora Welty's Collected Stories
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 15: Eudora Welty's Collected Stories
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
December 13, 2024 at 11:34 PM
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you; one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15: Eudora Welty's Collected Stories
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 15: Eudora Welty's Collected Stories
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you; one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 14: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
December 13, 2024 at 1:27 AM
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you; one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 14: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Following a delay, back to the parade:
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you; one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you; one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
December 11, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Following a delay, back to the parade:
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you; one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you; one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
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Open Letters editor @stdonoghue-1945.bsky.social continues his Best Books of 2024 with this year's History - read this and more at his Substack:
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The Best Books of 2024: History
The reading of all history felt increasingly speculative and almost taunting in 2024, the most pivotal year in US history.
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December 8, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Open Letters editor @stdonoghue-1945.bsky.social continues his Best Books of 2024 with this year's History - read this and more at his Substack:
substack.com/app-link/pos...
substack.com/app-link/pos...
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you; one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12: Middlemarch by George Eliot
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 12: Middlemarch by George Eliot
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
December 3, 2024 at 12:16 AM
💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you; one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12: Middlemarch by George Eliot
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books
Day 12: Middlemarch by George Eliot
#BookSky #20Books #bookschallenge #books