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One Bright Book
@onebrightbook.bsky.social
A podcast where three friends read all the books, one book at a time. Links & notes at https://onebrightbook.com

Find us here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-bright-book/id1614302344
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The biggest news of this youngish pod's life: we'll be providing the afterword for
@unnamedpress.bsky.social's
forthcoming edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's MARSH ISLAND! Excited and honoured!
Frances is ready. Are YOU ready?
Thanks for all the great Trollope advice yesterday! I’m ready to go now for that @onebrightbook.bsky.social conversation with @ds228.bsky.social and @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social at the end of January.
December 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The whole team here at One Bright Books sends our best wishes for a healthy and happy 2026. May it be filled with good reading, at least.

Thanks to all of you for listening to our little podcast. Means the world!
December 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Favourite fiction read in terrible 2025, a tower.
If you knowingly or recklessly recommended any of these to me, or cheered me up on here in any way at all then a big festive thumbs up to you! Everybody decent had a hard year but don't give up.
Merry Christmas and here's to 2026: Tyrants Destroyed🎄❤️
December 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Which books would you most like us to cover in a future episode?
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Good cheer and mild razzing abounds on our 4th annual Most Anticipated Books episode. Give it a listen!

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Episode 41: In Conversation With Sam Sacks About Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss their most anticipated books of 2026 with Sam Sacks, prominent book critic for The Wall Street Journal, …
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December 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Out running errands? Hiding away from it all? Our Most Anticipated Reads of 2026 episode makes for good company no matter what you're up to this season.
We're joined by @ssacks.bsky.social to chat about the books we most look forward to next year.
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Episode 41: In Conversation With Sam Sacks About Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss their most anticipated books of 2026 with Sam Sacks, prominent book critic for The Wall Street Journal, …
onebrightbook.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Won't be long until our Most Anticipated Reads of 2026 episode is live. Get excited!
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Show us your Spotify Wrapped podcast love!
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Recording our annual "Books We are Excited for Next Year" episode tomorrow, with special guest @ssacks.bsky.social !
Whoever decided we could only choose 3 titles each... well, I want a word with that person....
December 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Working on our edits for the afterword to the @unnamedpress.bsky.social edition of Jewett's A MARSH ISLAND and we are jazzed!
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If you're in the US, you'll likely have a day or two off this week. What will you be reading?
And if you're *not* in the US, you don't need a day off, you're doing just fine. But we still want to know what you're reading.
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Frances really spoiling the surprise here...
Just took this off the shelf, knowing that we’ll be reading it for the January episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social. Tempting to start rereading now. But I think I’ll wait for the December holiday break.
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Our conversation about Jacqueline Harpman's I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN is now available for your listening pleasure!
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Episode 40: I Who Have Never Known Men
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, and chat a…
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November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Episode 40 goes live tomorrow! Milestone!
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Will *we* become TikTok starts, just like this book????
Another fun conversation with @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social and @ds228.bsky.social for the next episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social Coming to you… sometime this week. What can I say? We do this for giggles! 🤭
November 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Tomorrow we record!
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
GOALS
Very amused to see our podcast described as 'borderline unlistenable'. I promise we'll try harder in future. Personally, I won't rest until it's unequivocally unlistenable.
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Rereading I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Roz Schwartz. Chatting about it with @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social and @ds228.bsky.social on Tuesday for the next episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social. Would love to hear your thoughts.
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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On a Very Special Episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social I’m joined by @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social to talk about William Makepeace Thackeray’s wonderful VANITY FAIR

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Bonus Episode 4: Dorian Stuber and Rohan Maitzen Discuss Vanity Fair
Welcome to One Bright Book! Rebecca and Frances move out of the picture for this bonus episode where Dorian gets a chance to finally discuss VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray with his one …
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October 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
29 years ago @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social assigned me this book. I did not read it. But now I have performed my teshuvah (repentance)...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Don't look now but a special BONUS episode of the pod is coming your way! Featuring @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social and this bad boy
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
We love to hear it!
In other news I listened to the @onebrightbook.bsky.social episode on this today and it was SO GOOD. It's exactly the kind of book that you read and then at the end you're like, wait, what, I need to talk about it or hear other people talking about it, and the conversation on the ep was perfect.
October 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Exciting day for the pod! Recorded the conversation that will feature as the afterword to the forthcoming @unnamedpress.bsky.social edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's MARSH ISLAND!
October 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM