July 30, 2014 Bean's Book Blog

The Snow Leopard by Peter Mattheissen (1978; Penguin Classics edition 2008)

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The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London (1911; 2000 Dover edition)

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Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman (2011)

November 27, 2013February 3, 2014 Bean's Book Blog

Time Out by David A. Kelly (2009)

June 19, 2013 Bean's Book Blog

Let’s Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (2013)

April 4, 2013April 4, 2013 Bean's Book Blog

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008)

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

*Mortality by Christopher Hitchens (2012)

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)

January 5, 2012 Bean's Book Blog

The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (2009)

September 19, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and a Teacher by William Zinsser (2009)

September 19, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

The Red Skirt: Memoirs of an Ex Nun by Patricia O’Donnell-Gibson (2011)

August 15, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

**The Dirty Life by Kristen Kimball (2010)

March 31, 2011April 17, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

*In Love and War by Jim and Sybil Stockdale (1990/1984)

March 13, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

**Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011) by Amy Chua

January 29, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck (2007)

January 17, 2011January 17, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

Journey of a Thousand Miles by Lang Lang (2008)

October 31, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

Swimming to Antarctica by Lynn Cox

July 30, 2010July 30, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther (1949)

May 25, 2010May 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

*Ultra Marathon Man: Confessions of an all night runner by Dean Karnazes

March 24, 2010March 24, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

*I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

March 5, 2010April 6, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (2006 paperback)

January 11, 2010April 6, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

**Lopsided by Meredith Norton (2008)

December 23, 2009April 6, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

**Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder (2009)

November 5, 2009March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

*Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins (1993)

October 23, 2009March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

*In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White (2009)

October 21, 2009March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

**Educating Esme by Esme Raji Codell (2009/1999)

September 7, 2009March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

*West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamin Ansary (2002)

September 7, 2009March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

** A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill (1994)

July 27, 2009March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

**What is the What by Dave Eggers (2007)

June 26, 2009April 6, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

***Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (1995, 2005)

April 11, 2009March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

*Finding Fish by Antwone Fisher (2001)

April 11, 2009March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

**Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals (1994)

January 25, 2009March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

*The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (2007)

July 28, 2008March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

* Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Relin (2006)

July 28, 2008April 6, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

*** Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (2007)

July 28, 2008March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

* The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2005)

July 28, 2008March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

* West with the Night by Beryl Markum (2005, 1942)