Category: Bean's favorites
These are my all-time favorite books–really good and/or important reads.
The Remains of the Day by Kazou Ishiguro (1988)
Book Review: The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek (1930), also titled The Good Soldier Svejk (depending on the translation)
Review: The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion, Volume 4 by Beth Brower (2021)
Book Review: a Burning by Megha Majumdar (2020)
Book Review: The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion, Volume 3 by Beth Brower
Book Review: The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion Volumes 1 & 2 (2019) by Beth Brower
My Friends by Hisham Matar (2024)
Book Review: Writers & Lovers by Lily King (2020)
Top 10 reads from 2025
Book Review: What We Can Know by Ian McEwen (2025)
Book Review: The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra (2015)
Book Review: The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson (2025)
Book Review: Fire Weather–A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant (2025)
A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst (2024)
Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili. (2024)
Who is Government? Edited by Michael Lewis (2025)
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (2025)
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton (2024)
Tin Man by Sarah Winman (2017)
The Nix by Nathan Hill (2016)
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller (2021)
Red Dog Farm by Nathaniel Ian Miller (2025)
Still Life by Sarah Winman (2021)
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger (2024)
The Wide Wide Sea: imperial ambition, first contact, and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides (2024).
Playground by Richard Powers (2024)
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig (2024)
You Are Here by David Nicholls (2024)
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt (2024)
North woods by Daniel Mason (2023)
In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger (2024)
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange (2024)
A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko (2024)
Table for Two by Amor Towles (2024)
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Cochitl Gonzales (2024)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson (2019)
Wellness by Nathan Hill (2023)
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri (2019)
Absolution by Alice McDermott (2023)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (2022)
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (2023)
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano (2020)
Foster by Claire Keegan (2022 in the US, 2010 in Ireland/UK)
Walking with the Wind by John Lewis with Michael D’Orso (1998)
A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020)
Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui (2020)
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne (2017)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
