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December 15, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Book Review: Absent Without Leave by William Tyler Head (2025)

October 29, 2025October 29, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Book Review: This American Woman by Zarna Garg (2025)

July 11, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw (2022)

April 7, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Making it So by Patrick Stewart (2023)

March 13, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Finding me by Viola Davis (2022)

February 12, 2025February 13, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

A Well Trained Wife by Tia Levings (2024)

December 5, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair (2023)

November 26, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

Road Home by Rex Ogle (2024)

September 29, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

Rift by Cait West (2024)

September 23, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

Ghosted by Nancy French (2024)

July 17, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger (2024)

June 7, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

In Love and War by Jim and Sybil Stockdale (1984)

December 19, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

The Movement Made Us: A Father, A Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride by David Dennis Jr. (2023)

November 20, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

Stay True by Hua Hsu (2022)

July 6, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (2014)

May 31, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

Forty Autumns by Nina Willner (2015)

May 1, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (2021)

March 6, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

Know My Name by Chanel Miller (2019)

January 22, 2023January 22, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (1989)

December 15, 2022 Bean's Book Blog

Solito by Javier Zamora (2022)

November 20, 2022 Bean's Book Blog

Pig Years by Ellyn Gaydos (2022)

October 10, 2022 Bean's Book Blog

How We Fight for our Lives by Saeed Jones (2019)

September 1, 2022 Bean's Book Blog

The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham (2017)

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)

December 1, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim OBrien (2019)

August 12, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

The Glass Hotel, The Beauty in Breaking, and Where the Forest Meets the Stars

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Burn the Place by Iliana Regan (2019)

May 7, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Heartland by Sarah Smarsh (2018)

April 8, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Persian Girls by Nahid Rachlin (2007)

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

Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aaarti Namdev Shahani (2019)

December 18, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson (2019) and The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (2017)

December 18, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (2016)

August 6, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande (2012)

July 26, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

This is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro’s Shadow by David Ariosto (2018)

July 12, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff (and Alex Tresniowski), 2011

April 18, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

Becoming by Michelle Obama (2018)

January 25, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (2018)

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)

July 31, 2018July 31, 2018 Bean's Book Blog

Beautiful Boy by David Sheff (2008)

July 26, 2018 Bean's Book Blog

I Was at the Auschwitz Crematorium (2011) and I was Doctor Mendel’s Assistant (2001)

July 26, 2018 Bean's Book Blog

Adrift by Tami Oldham Ashcraft (orig pub. 2003)

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

The Carry Home by Gary Ferguson (2014)

February 8, 2018 Bean's Book Blog

Hunger by Roxane Gay (2017)

August 7, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (2014)

August 6, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

When Breath Becomes Air by Dr. Paul Kalanithi (2016)

April 3, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy (2013)

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

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

December 28, 2015December 28, 2015 Bean's Book Blog

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb (2013)

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