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Category: Bean's favorites

These are my all-time favorite books–really good and/or important reads.

November 26, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (2022)

November 20, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (2023)

October 13, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano (2020)

July 29, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

Foster by Claire Keegan (2022 in the US, 2010 in Ireland/UK)

March 17, 2021 Bean's Book Blog

Walking with the Wind by John Lewis with Michael D’Orso (1998)

February 15, 2021 Bean's Book Blog

A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020)

February 15, 2021 Bean's Book Blog

Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui (2020)

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Bean's Book Blog

The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne (2017)

October 4, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

July 22, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (2018)

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Olive Kitteridge (2009) and Olive Again (2019) by Elizabeth Strout

April 23, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015)

February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley (2013)

February 11, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan (2017)

January 28, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019)

January 23, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (2018)

January 13, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Beartown by Fredrik Backman (2017)

December 18, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (2016)

December 18, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates (2019)

October 21, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough (2018)

September 16, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (2018)

August 13, 2019August 13, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

There There by Tommy Orange (2018)

June 13, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

The Overstory by Richard Powers (2018)

February 27, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

Circe by Madeline Miller (2018)

January 31, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

Resistance by Barry Lopez (2004)

January 14, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney (2017)

January 14, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko (2013)

November 26, 2018November 26, 2018 Bean's Book Blog

Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo (2017)

November 26, 2018November 26, 2018 Bean's Book Blog

The Line Becomes a River by Francis Cantu (2018)

April 3, 2018July 26, 2018 Bean's Book Blog

The Carry Home by Gary Ferguson (2014)

April 3, 2018 Bean's Book Blog

Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2016)

February 4, 2018February 4, 2018 Bean's Book Blog

The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott (2017)

July 18, 2017 Bean's Book Blog

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2016)

April 10, 2017 Bean's Book Blog

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potuk (1972)

August 7, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (2014)

August 6, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (2013)

April 6, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)

February 2, 2016February 2, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

The Opposite of Loneliness: stories and essays by marina Keegan (2014)

July 23, 2015July 23, 2015 Bean's Book Blog

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2014)

August 20, 2014 Bean's Book Blog

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)

August 12, 2013 Bean's Book Blog

Hidden Americaa by Jeanne Marie Laskas (2012)

June 18, 2013 Bean's Book Blog

**The Best American Essays 2012 ed. by David Brooks

April 7, 2013 Bean's Book Blog

Ali and Nino by Kurbain Said (1996)

December 27, 2012December 27, 2012 Bean's Book Blog

**Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (2011)

August 31, 2012 Bean's Book Blog

* A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer Dubois (2012)

July 26, 2012July 26, 2012 Bean's Book Blog

The Best Magazine Writing 2010 ed. by Jon Meacham

June 27, 2012April 30, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Full Body Burden: Growing up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen (2012)

April 29, 2012 Bean's Book Blog

The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht (2011)

January 5, 2012 Bean's Book Blog

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (2011)

October 21, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (2009)

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