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December 15, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Book Review: Absent Without Leave by William Tyler Head (2025)

October 29, 2025October 29, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Book Review: This American Woman by Zarna Garg (2025)

September 3, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg (2022)

July 11, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw (2022)

April 7, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Making it So by Patrick Stewart (2023)

March 13, 2025 Bean's Book Blog

Finding me by Viola Davis (2022)

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

A Well Trained Wife by Tia Levings (2024)

December 5, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair (2023)

November 26, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

Road Home by Rex Ogle (2024)

September 29, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

Rift by Cait West (2024)

September 23, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

Ghosted by Nancy French (2024)

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 7, 2024 Bean's Book Blog

In Love and War by Jim and Sybil Stockdale (1984)

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)

July 6, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (2014)

May 31, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

Forty Autumns by Nina Willner (2015)

May 1, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (2021)

March 6, 2023 Bean's Book Blog

Know My Name by Chanel Miller (2019)

December 15, 2022 Bean's Book Blog

Solito by Javier Zamora (2022)

November 20, 2022 Bean's Book Blog

Pig Years by Ellyn Gaydos (2022)

March 17, 2021 Bean's Book Blog

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

February 15, 2021 Bean's Book Blog

A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020)

January 30, 2021 Bean's Book Blog

Untamed by Glennon Doyle (2020)

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Burn the Place by Iliana Regan (2019)

April 8, 2020 Bean's Book Blog

Persian Girls by Nahid Rachlin (2007)

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

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

December 18, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

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

August 6, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande (2012)

July 12, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

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

April 18, 2019 Bean's Book Blog

Becoming by Michelle Obama (2018)

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

The Line Becomes a River by Francis Cantu (2018)

August 7, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (2014)

August 6, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

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

April 3, 2016 Bean's Book Blog

The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy (2013)

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)

June 19, 2013 Bean's Book Blog

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

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)

September 19, 2011 Bean's Book Blog

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

October 31, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

Swimming to Antarctica by Lynn Cox

July 30, 2010July 30, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther (1949)

March 24, 2010March 24, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

*I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

November 5, 2009March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

*Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins (1993)

September 7, 2009March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

** A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill (1994)

June 26, 2009April 6, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

***Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (1995, 2005)

April 11, 2009March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

*Finding Fish by Antwone Fisher (2001)

January 25, 2009March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

**Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1996)

July 28, 2008March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

*** Night by Elie Wiesel (2006, 1958)

July 28, 2008March 25, 2010 Bean's Book Blog

* The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2005)

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