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🎙️ cohost @booktalketc Reader of all genres, cozy hobby enthusiast, and trying to build a warm, thoughtful life, one book recommendation at a time ✨
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Hi there 👋🏼 it’s @hanpickedbooks!
Why I changed my user name below 👇🏼
I started my account in a time when I was fresh out of college, newly married, and incredibly lonely. I felt like books were my solace and my home. I wanted a clever way of saying “I’m native to …. books” because I was super lost at the time. Looking back, I think this idea was really weird and I could have made my handle like…. Anything else really 😂😂😂😂 but I just kept it haha #RAGRETS
I started a series a while back (2020 I think) where I compiled book recommendations, and called them #hanpickedbooks. It felt natural to make this the whole of my account moving forward. I really love recommending books to y’all, and want this to be a community space for me rather than a place where I am feeling desperate to just not be lonely anymore.
The name change for me is also about new eras in my own life, finding myself, loving books, and wanting to share them with others. I hope that you have enjoyed the many books that I have recommended and will continue to recommend!!!
thank you to everyone who has been with me from the beginning, through all of the genre whiplash, changes in book taste, and my continual existential crisis. 👻 I love you all!
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#bookcommunity #hanpickedbooks #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram
26 May 2023
Summer is over, fall is at its peak, and we are about to sink into the depths of winter, which is just the *coziest* season of reading if you ask me!
Today I have 36 book recommendations that I have placed into several categories and moods — but these book recommendations definitely fall within a myriad of genres and are a compilation of the many types of books I like to read… Which is pretty much everything! 📖
The most wintery of winter book recommendations I may or may not have saved for last 🤭👀
What is your ideal winter reading mood or vibe? 🌨️🧣
#bookrecs #cozyvibes #cozyreading #bookcommunity #booksarelife
10 Nov 2026
Bookshelves got a lil sparkle up this weekend ✨🧚
Look through the pics to see the final product! My office is a much happier place now that I can see the floor and the books that are no longer calling to me have found new homes 🏠 🤭
I also listened to Penance by Eliza Clark on audio as I was working on this project and what a WILD ride! It was reminded me a lot of Mike Flanagan’s retelling of Carrie. It’s written as a true crime novel, but it is fiction, and you, the reader, are trying to work out what actually happened, who was guilty, etc. It made me feel like I was 16 again in a BAD kind of way. 😆 The tumblr elements were so real, and the characters talking in “online speak,” felt so real and cringe, haha. None of these characters were terribly likable and it was hard to tell what POV was reliable (I don’t think any of them were). Still unpacking the themes on the true crime industry…but this was dark, vapid and also quite juicy AND made me uncomfortable bc wow humans can be so awful 😭
What does and doesn’t constitute as ethical true crime? This book def asks this, and was interesting.
Do you like to listen to audiobooks while you clean? 🧼 Friendly reminder to dust those bookshelves because WOW lol mine needed it!!
#bookshelves #homelibrary #cozyhome #cozyliving #bookcommunity
09 Nov 2026
Come along with me while I donate some books in some new-to-me little free libraries! I love donating books and spreading the bookish love, and little free libraries is a great way to unhaul!
Do you see any books you would have snagged for yourself if you came across them in a @littlefreelibrary?
#bookcommunity #bookaesthetic #bookrecommendations #readerlife #littlefreelibrary
08 Nov 2026
A different kind of October reading for me over here 👀👁️ I love it when bookish serendipity happens…I JUST entered the world of Big Brother (the reality TV show) per a co-workers recommendation, and then happened to pick up 1984 by George Orwell for a buddy read at the same time. I did not know Big Brother the show got its name from this modern classic 🙂↕️ That may be embarrassing to admit but idc 😅
Anyway, this is my current read, and I am a little on the fence with how I feel about it, but I can see how this became such an iconic classic, and why it’s canon for dystopian literature.
I am currently collecting and reading penguin modern classics, and I’ll be glad to finally have one read, as I’m accumulating them more quickly than I’m reading so far (classic).
Any modern classics you recommend? 🤓 have you read this one?
#classicliterature #classiclit #octoberreads #1984 #readerlife
18 Oct 2026
I’ve seen several of folks this week saying they’re really tired of seeing book recommendation lists. And I understand, I really do. Especially in light of some lists that have gone up based on absolutely atrocious current events that do not warrant a “book recommendation list.” Some things just really do not need your recommendation lists, people.
What I will say though, is while I have mixed relationship with social media and how it, at times, wants you to create content out of your comfort zone in order to fit its current algorithm, I have always enjoyed figuring out how I can share my love of books and reading in a way that is resonating most in the current social media climate. It’s always been fun for me.
I’ve been a little burned out lately, with work, parenting littles, and trying to balance not only reading, but other creative activities that spark joy and keep me off my phone lol, so I haven’t been posting as much or keeping up with what’s working and what’s not right now. But, what I will say, is book recommendation lists are very easy, because I’ve always done them — whether on Canva, or back in the day, with a book stack. And easy ways to share books and reading are ways I can stay here and stay in connection with you all.
I in no way felt targeted by seeing the shade at book rec list hate 😆 cause LISTEN, I’m also sick of seeing the same types of posts over and over lol. But I also enjoy playing the game of social media from time to time too 🤭😌 and most of all, I love you, reader, and this space that has continued to fuel my love of books for over a decade. 🩵 So, thanks for being here and making it this far if you’re still reading.
Rest assured that EVERY book I’ve ever recommended I have read and would recommend to a reader (even if it wasn’t a 5 ⭐️ for me, some books I’d still recommend for a certain type of reader or genre or vibe!).
What are you tired of seeing right now? What do you want to see more of?
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#booksta #bookstagram #bookcommunity #readerforlife #readerlife
07 Oct 2026
Romance book recommendations for the prickly romance reader. 🙂↕️ I swear, if these books don’t make you believe in love, I don’t know what will!
Books featured:
Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff
Summer Fridays by Suzanne Rindell
Ready or Not by Cara Bastone
Return to Sender by Stephanie Parente (thank you @thedialpress )
Let’s Kiss and Tell by Joss Richard (thank you @dellromance)
What book would you add to this list??
⭐️ ⭐️ #romance #romancereader
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06 Oct 2026
I love finding really good books that not a lot of people are talking about. Some of these books have had more hype than others over the years, but ultimately, I think that these are some unsung heroes that I want more people to read and talk about!
Books listed:
The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
Summer Fridays by Suzanne Rindell
Knife River by Justine Champine
Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh
The Manicurists Daughter by Susan Lieu
Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermamsky
Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk
Last House by Jessica Shattuck
These Impossible Things by
Salma El-Wardany
Is there a book out there that you want more people to read?
08 Sep 2026
21 books to add to your Fall TBR and autumn reading lists! I have read and would recommend all of these books. While some I personally enjoyed more than others, there are some I would still opening recommend to the right reader this time of year. ✨🕯️🌙🌾🧙🏼
I like to include many different genres, but let me know if I should make some genre specific reading lists! 🤭
Some shoutout recommendations from my list ⬇️
For cozy vibes: A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
For pure terror: Jackal by Erin. E. Adams
For a sweeping literary romp: Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
Three additional fall recs not pictured 🙂↕️
Knife River by Justine Champine
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
Thirst by Marissa Yuszczuk
💭 What book would you put on this list??
#bookrecs #bookrecommendations #fallreading #readinglife readinglis
29 Sep 2026
7 books that hit my shelves this week! ⏩ do you see any on your TBR?
The Summer Boy (thanks @scribnerbooks!) - an autobiographical novel about 16 teenagers on a French resort island in the summer of 1985, whose golden season ends in a life changing tragedy. 🎭
Let’s Kiss & Tell (thank you @dellromance) — I just finished this one and really enjoyed it! Joss Richard is officially an auto buy for me.
This is a rom-com about a pessimistic sex columnist and a news writer who enter a fake dating arrangement.
Girl Dinner (thank you @torbooks) — this is a dark satirical novel about female ambition and a secret sorority’s shocking ritual of cannibaIism.
Sunrise (thank you @randomhouse) — a literary fiction novel that connects 3 timelines in Wyoming that explores survival, frontier myths, and many long buried secrets!
The Hill in the Dark Grove (thank you @randomhouse) — this is a debut folk horror novel about an aging welsh sheep farmer whose obsession with unearthing a buried prehistoric ruin on his land summons an ancient and terrifying power.
Drowning in Paper Flowers (thank you @atriabooks) — a domestic psychological thriller about a housewife whose “perfect life” hides a spiral of trauma, deceit and murder! 👻
All the Beastly Things (thanks @atriabooks) — a post apocalyptic, gothic science fiction novel set in 2171 where there is nuclear fallout and nature has completely reclaimed earth, and survivors live in an all female monastic communities.
02 Sep 2026
20 book recommendations for rainy day reading! Fall weather calls for some good rainy day reads to have on hand imo 🙂↕️ I am really hoping we get some good thunderstorms this fall—cause I’m craving some moody weather reading. 😍
Have you read any of these? What book would you add to your list??
#fallreading #bookrecommendations #bookrecs
01 Sep 2026
A TBR stack, a @hey_soolla bag refresh, and a hobby basket re-organization for a little mid-week pick me up! 🙂↕️
I have been LOVING my @hey_soolla bag for carrying my journal supplies & on the go hobby items. I have some friends and family that love theirs for pottery supplies too. It has been a lifesaver and is totally worth the price imo!
Help me prioritize my TBR and see what I’m looking forward to reading! ⏩
I need help prioritizing this TBR stack!! (Thank you tagged publishers for the complimentary books!)
Some of these are the final books on my summer Bonanza list, and some of them are just recent releases that I would love to prioritize if I can.
I have been told that UNICORN HUNTERS is riiiight up my alley!
A moment for the sunlight ☀️
I am actually halfway through Let’s Kiss and Tell by Joss Richard and it is definitely living up to my expectations!
I don’t always love fake dating but this one is working for me. The pining and yearning are 10/10 and I am looking forward to finishing it and assessing my final thoughts!
If you’ve made it this far, tell me your favorite screen free activity and drop your current favorite emoji.
Mine is this nodding one 🙂↕️ (😆)
#bookstagram #tbrstack #amreading #currentlyreading #booksaremylife
27 Aug 2026
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