September 17, 2019September 25, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions byValeria Luiselli (2017)

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)

January 14, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko (2013)

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

How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (2018)

July 26, 2018 Bean's Book Blog

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

April 3, 2018 Bean's Book Blog

Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2016)

February 3, 2018 Bean's Book Blog

American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee (2017)

July 13, 2017 Bean's Book Blog

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (2016)

October 9, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathanial Philbrick (2000)

August 5, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

Deep South by Paul Theroux (2015)

May 22, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

Missoula by Jon Krakauer (2015)

April 6, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

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

April 3, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy (2013)

February 10, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

Becoming Nicole: the Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt (2015)

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)

July 10, 2015July 10, 2015 Bean's Book Blog

Excellent essays from a variety of 2012-2015 essay anthologies

July 9, 2015July 10, 2015 Bean's Book Blog

A few books I’ve enjoyed that are worth noting

July 9, 2015July 9, 2015 Bean's Book Blog

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (2014)

July 30, 2014 Bean's Book Blog

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

July 16, 2014 Bean's Book Blog

On a Farther Shore: Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Sounder (2012)

July 2, 2014 Bean's Book Blog

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

July 2, 2014 Bean's Book Blog

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (2010)

January 6, 2014 Bean's Book Blog

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1996)

January 4, 2014 Bean's Book Blog

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)

August 12, 2013 Bean's Book Blog

Hidden Americaa by Jeanne Marie Laskas (2012)

July 10, 2013 Bean's Book Blog

Quiet by Susan Cain (2012)

June 19, 2013 Bean's Book Blog

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

June 18, 2013 Bean's Book Blog

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

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

*Mortality by Christopher Hitchens (2012)

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

**Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (2011)

October 2, 2012 Bean's Book Blog

The Town that Food Saved by Ben Hewitt (2010)

September 15, 2012 Bean's Book Blog

The China Study by T Colin Campbell, PhD (2006)

August 31, 2012 Bean's Book Blog

The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin (2008)

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

The Best Magazine Writing 2010 ed. by Jon Meacham

July 22, 2012July 22, 2012 Bean's Book Blog

The War that Killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander (2009)

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 28, 2012 Bean's Book Blog

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (2008)

February 2, 2012 Bean's Book Blog

The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010) by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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 24, 2011August 25, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

*Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer (1990, 2009)

August 15, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

**The Dirty Life by Kristen Kimball (2010)

July 14, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

*Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer (2009)

May 19, 2011August 24, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

*Anti Cancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD (2010)

May 19, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

**The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (2010)

May 15, 2011May 19, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

My Reading Life by Pat Conroy (2010)

April 17, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

*Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (2010)