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Hannah’s Books
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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
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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.

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Hannah, in front of a bookcase full of old volumes, wearing a Victorian blouse, a cameo pin, and school marm glasses.
September 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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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.
The beer and book (mentioned in the post) on a brewery table, next to an unlit lantern.
March 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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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
Book cover--bright red border surrounding a black-and-white photograph of a woman in a fur coat seeming to look right at the viewer.
January 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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#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
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Anthony Trollope with tiny glasses and a huge gray beard.
January 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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#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
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💙📚 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

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December 23, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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💙📚 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

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December 22, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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💙📚 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

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December 20, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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💙📚 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

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December 18, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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💙📚 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
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💙📚 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

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December 15, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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💙📚 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

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December 13, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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💙📚 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

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December 13, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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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
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December 11, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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💙📚 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

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December 3, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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💙📚 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 11: Antigone by Sophocles

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December 1, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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💙📚 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 10: Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community by Charles Joyner

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November 29, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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💙📚 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 9: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (with annotations by Merve Emre)

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November 28, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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💙📚 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 8: Poems of Emily Dickinson

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November 28, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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💙📚 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 7: The Country of Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

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November 27, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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💙📚 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 6: A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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November 25, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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💙📚 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 5: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

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November 24, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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💙📚 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 4: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

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November 23, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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💙📚 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 3: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

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November 22, 2024 at 6:02 PM