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December 4, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz (2002)

November 24, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Book Review: The Quickening by Elizabeth Rush (2023)

October 23, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Book Review: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (2025)

October 20, 2025October 21, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Book Review: Fire Weather–A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant (2025)

September 15, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst (2024)

September 3, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg (2022)

August 8, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Who is Government? Edited by Michael Lewis (2025)

July 8, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton (2024)

April 17, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall (2023)

February 20, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Running with Sherman by Christopher McDougall (2019)

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

A Well Trained Wife by Tia Levings (2024)

January 14, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

The Wide Wide Sea: imperial ambition, first contact, and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides (2024).

December 27, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2024)

December 11, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick (2024)

August 30, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt (2024)

August 8, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta (2023)

July 25, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom (2019)

July 17, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger (2024)

June 10, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko (2024)

April 29, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

The Unseen Body by Jonathan Reisman (2021)

March 21, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond (2023)

January 21, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

The Checklist Manifesto: how to get things done right by Atul Gawande (2009)

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)

December 19, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

The Righteous Mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion by Jonathan Haidt (2012)

November 20, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

Stay True by Hua Hsu (2022)

September 9, 2023December 19, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI by David Grann (2017)

November 28, 2022 Bean's Book Blog

Wastelands:the True story of farm country on trial (2022) by Corban Addison

September 25, 2022 Bean's Book Blog

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson (2021)

August 8, 2022 Bean's Book Blog

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan (2018)

July 29, 2022 Bean's Book Blog

Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides

May 10, 2021 Bean's Book Blog

The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor (2010)

February 15, 2021 Bean's Book Blog

Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui (2020)

January 30, 2021 Bean's Book Blog

Untamed by Glennon Doyle (2020)

December 28, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (2020)

December 1, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim OBrien (2019)

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

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (2015)

August 31, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD (1997/2017)

July 22, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (2018)

July 8, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi (2020)

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)

March 18, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

On Tyrany: Twenty lessons from the 20th c by Timothy Snyder (2017)

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 23, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein (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

The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates (2019)

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi (2019)

October 16, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

Waking up White by Debby Irving (2014)

September 25, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

What the Eyes Don’t See by Mona Hanna-Attisha (2018)

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