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

March 17, 2021 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

February 15, 2021 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020)

February 15, 2021 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui (2020)

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

October 4, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

July 22, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (2018)

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

April 23, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015)

February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

February 11, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

January 28, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019)

January 23, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (2018)

January 13, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Beartown by Fredrik Backman (2017)

December 18, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (2016)

December 18, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates (2019)

October 21, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough (2018)

September 16, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (2018)

August 13, 2019August 13, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

There There by Tommy Orange (2018)

June 13, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Overstory by Richard Powers (2018)

February 27, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Circe by Madeline Miller (2018)

January 31, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Resistance by Barry Lopez (2004)

January 14, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney (2017)

January 14, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko (2013)

November 26, 2018November 26, 2018 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo (2017)

November 26, 2018November 26, 2018 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Line Becomes a River by Francis Cantu (2018)

April 3, 2018July 26, 2018 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Carry Home by Gary Ferguson (2014)

April 3, 2018 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2016)

February 4, 2018February 4, 2018 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott (2017)

July 18, 2017 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2016)

April 10, 2017 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potuk (1972)

August 7, 2016 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (2014)

August 6, 2016 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (2013)

April 6, 2016 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

February 2, 2016February 2, 2016 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

July 23, 2015July 23, 2015 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

August 20, 2014 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)

August 12, 2013 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Hidden Americaa by Jeanne Marie Laskas (2012)

June 18, 2013 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

April 7, 2013 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Ali and Nino by Kurbain Said (1996)

December 27, 2012December 27, 2012 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

**Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (2011)

August 31, 2012 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

July 26, 2012July 26, 2012 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Best Magazine Writing 2010 ed. by Jon Meacham

April 29, 2012 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht (2011)

January 5, 2012 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (2011)

October 21, 2011 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (2009)

August 24, 2011August 25, 2011 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

*Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer (1990, 2009)

August 15, 2011 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

**The Dirty Life by Kristen Kimball (2010)

July 14, 2011August 25, 2011 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

**Incendiary by Chris Cleave (2005)

May 19, 2011August 24, 2011 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

May 19, 2011 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

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