Author: Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond
I'm a teacher, a reader, a sort-of writer sharing my thoughts on books, education, and other stuff I care about.
On Tyrany: Twenty lessons from the 20th c by Timothy Snyder (2017)
Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aaarti Namdev Shahani (2019)
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (2013)
The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley (2013)
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan (2017)
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (2017)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019)
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein (2019)
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (2018)
Beartown by Fredrik Backman (2017)
Vox by Christina Dalcher (2018)
Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson (2019) and The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (2017)
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (2016)
The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates (2019)
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi (2019)
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland (2002)
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough (2018)
Waking up White by Debby Irving (2014)
With the Fire on High + The Benefits of Being an Octopus
What the Eyes Don’t See by Mona Hanna-Attisha (2018)
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions byValeria Luiselli (2017)
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (2018)
Behold the Dreamers (2016) by Imbolo Mbue
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness (2011)
Dictator by Robert Harris (2015)
There There by Tommy Orange (2018)
The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande (2012)
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver (2018)
This is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro’s Shadow by David Ariosto (2018)
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (2015)
The Christmas Kid (and other Brooklyn Stories) by Pete Hamill (2012)
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff (and Alex Tresniowski), 2011
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (2019)
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield (2018)
The Overstory by Richard Powers (2018)
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (2012)
Becoming by Michelle Obama (2018)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (2017)
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (2018)
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (2017)
Less by Andrew Sean Greer (2017)
Circe by Madeline Miller (2018)
Resistance by Barry Lopez (2004)
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (2018)
Face to Face by Jim McCaul and All That Remains by Sue Black
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (2018)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017)
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney (2017)
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