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.
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)
The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko (2013)
Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo (2017)
The Line Becomes a River by Francis Cantu (2018)
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (2018)
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (2018)
A Feast for Crows and Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin
Game of Thrones, Books 1-3 by George RR Martin (1996-2000)
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff (2008)
I Was at the Auschwitz Crematorium (2011) and I was Doctor Mendel’s Assistant (2001)
Adrift by Tami Oldham Ashcraft (orig pub. 2003)
Everything I Never Told You & Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (2014, 2017)
The Carry Home by Gary Ferguson (2014)
Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2016)
One Station Away by Olaf Olaffsson (2017)
The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn (2018)
Hunger by Roxane Gay (2017)
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott (2017)
