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

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (2020)

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

Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim OBrien (2019)

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

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (2015)

August 31, 2020 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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: books and beyond

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (2018)

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

Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi (2020)

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)

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

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

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

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

The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates (2019)

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi (2019)

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

Waking up White by Debby Irving (2014)

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

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

September 17, 2019September 25, 2019 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2016)

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

American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee (2017)

July 13, 2017 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (2016)

October 9, 2016 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

August 5, 2016 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Deep South by Paul Theroux (2015)

May 22, 2016 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Missoula by Jon Krakauer (2015)

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

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

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

The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy (2013)

February 10, 2016 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

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 10, 2015July 10, 2015 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Excellent essays from a variety of 2012-2015 essay anthologies

July 9, 2015July 10, 2015 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

A few books I’ve enjoyed that are worth noting

July 9, 2015July 9, 2015 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (2014)

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

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

July 16, 2014 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

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

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

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

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

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (2010)

January 6, 2014 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1996)

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)

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

Hidden Americaa by Jeanne Marie Laskas (2012)

July 10, 2013 Bean's Book Blog: books and beyond

Quiet by Susan Cain (2012)

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

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

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

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

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

*Mortality by Christopher Hitchens (2012)

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

**Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (2011)

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