September 1, 2022 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham (2017)

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)

December 1, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim OBrien (2019)

August 12, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Burn the Place by Iliana Regan (2019)

May 7, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Heartland by Sarah Smarsh (2018)

April 8, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Persian Girls by Nahid Rachlin (2007)

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

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

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

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

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

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (2016)

August 6, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande (2012)

July 26, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

July 12, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

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

Becoming by Michelle Obama (2018)

January 25, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (2018)

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)

July 31, 2018July 31, 2018 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Beautiful Boy by David Sheff (2008)

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

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

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

Adrift by Tami Oldham Ashcraft (orig pub. 2003)

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

The Carry Home by Gary Ferguson (2014)

February 8, 2018 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Hunger by Roxane Gay (2017)

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

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

April 3, 2016 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy (2013)

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

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

December 28, 2015December 28, 2015 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

July 30, 2014 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

July 2, 2014 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

January 4, 2014 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman (2011)

November 27, 2013February 3, 2014 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Time Out by David A. Kelly (2009)

June 19, 2013 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

April 4, 2013April 4, 2013 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008)

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

*Mortality by Christopher Hitchens (2012)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

**The Dirty Life by Kristen Kimball (2010)

March 31, 2011April 17, 2011 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

March 13, 2011 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

January 29, 2011 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck (2007)

January 17, 2011January 17, 2011 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Journey of a Thousand Miles by Lang Lang (2008)

October 31, 2010 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Swimming to Antarctica by Lynn Cox

July 30, 2010July 30, 2010 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther (1949)

May 25, 2010May 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

March 24, 2010March 24, 2010 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

*I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

March 5, 2010April 6, 2010 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

January 11, 2010April 6, 2010 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

**Lopsided by Meredith Norton (2008)

December 23, 2009April 6, 2010 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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