Natalie Haynes Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Natalie Haynes is an author and broadcaster. Bestselling author, broadcaster and classicist. Tweets by N and team. Stone Blind out now! My newest book #DivineMight is out in September...

Bewilderment
Richard Powers
Thanks @kobo! What an excellent list of books for Ships to be on, including Richard Powers’ Bewilderment, which is beautiful. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/list/our-top-20-fiction-picks-of-2021/JTWupbMmu83tVAjZqUgBtg https://t.co/MOI589I0m4
Hardcover, 2021
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Eumenides
Aeschylus
In today's episode of Times When Gorgons Were Made Worse in English than They Are in Greek, I give you... Robert Fagles' translation of the Eumenides, by Aeschylus: 'Gorgons I'd call them; but then with Gorgons you'd see the grim, inhuman...' Now let's look at the Greek (1/2) https://t.co/09hlAh0e0r
Paperback, 1989
$47.99$24.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki
Massive congratulations to @ozekiland and @canongatebooks on winning the @womensprize 2022! I am a huge fan, I couldn’t be more delighted 🏆 🙌🏻 🎉 #womensprize
Paperback, 2022
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poetics
Aristotle
Which lost object do you most wish we could find? Cleopatra’s tomb? Caligula’s horse? Aristotle’s Poetics on comedy (the McGuffin from The Name of the Rose)? The other 9 books of Sappho? From any time period, doesn’t have to be ancient, those just sprang to mind for me… 👑⚱️📚
Paperback, 2013
$11.95$5.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: An Extraordinary New Journey Through History's Greatest Treasures
Bettany Hughes
Congratulations to @bettany_hughes on the launch of her gorgeous new book, The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World! 📙✨ History fans, you’ll all want to delve in…
Paperback, 2024
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fables
Aesop
Aesop’s fables tells us to be grateful for what we have, because someone is always worse off. Especially the mole in this engraving, which looks like it has been run over by a lorry. https://t.co/xJfXd98BK3
Paperback, 2022
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
Natalie Haynes
Series 9 of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics will be coming your way in the summer 📻 The sequel to Pandora’s Jar will be out in the UK in the autumn 🏺✨ (We’re not allowed to share the title yet, so we’re just calling it Pandora Strikes Back in the meantime.)
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes
Ask me anything on Reddit tomorrow! I’ll be on the r/books subreddit (https://t.co/53aWw5JSxD) answering your questions from 1pm EST / 5pm GST. Their book club have been reading A Thousand Ships, plus we can talk Stone Blind, mythology, radio, anything else 📚👩🏻💻 #AMA https://t.co/8HjovBUB9F
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Don't Hit Me: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Carol L. Green
🧵Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. So here are two images of gorgons for you, both held in the British Museum. The hydria showing the immediate aftermath of Medusa’s decapitation is devastating: you see the blood running down her neck, https://t.co/rZSDXubqiN
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The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Zachary Mason
@LeedsBookClub The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason! Thanks so much for coming to the talk 😊
Paperback, 2011
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book