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Books like Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

12 books with a reading profile close to Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way by Shauna Niequist. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

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Untamed

by Glennon Doyle

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Glennon Doyle recounts the moment she realized her life was constructed around societal expectations rather than her own desires.
2

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

by Ann Voskamp

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Ann Voskamp centers her narrative on the Greek concept of eucharisteo, which connects grace, thanksgiving, and joy.
3

Greenlights

by Matthew McConaughey

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Matthew McConaughey presents a collection of stories and life filters derived from thirty-six years of his personal diaries.
4

The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

by Amanda Palmer

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Amanda Palmer examines the mechanics of reciprocity and the psychological barriers that prevent individuals from requesting assistance.
5

Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

by Glennon Doyle

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Glennon Doyle Melton shares a series of essays detailing her transition from a life defined by bulimia and alcoholism to one centered on motherhood and faith.
6

What I Know for Sure

by Oprah Winfrey

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Oprah Winfrey collects essays, many drawn from her monthly column in O, The Oprah Magazine.
7

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

by Gregory Boyle

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Gregory Boyle shares twenty years of experiences running Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program in Los Angeles.
8

The Last Lecture

by Randy Pausch

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

After receiving a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch delivered a final presentation titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.
9

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

by Katherine May

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Katherine May presents wintering as a recurring, inevitable season of life characterized by personal crisis, illness, or professional failure.
10

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

by Mitch Albom

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Mitch Albom, a sports columnist preoccupied with career success, reconnects with his former sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, after seeing him interviewed on television about his terminal ALS diagnosis.
11

Milton's Secret

by Eckhart Tolle, Robert S. Friedman

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, inspirational

Milton is a young boy who faces persistent anxiety due to a school bully named Carter.
12

Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

by Rachel Held Evans

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Rachel Held Evans uses the framework of seven traditional sacraments—baptism, confession, holy orders, communion, confirmation, anointing the sick, and marriage—to structure her memoir of religious deconstruction and re…

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