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12 books with a reading profile close to Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

Intimations

by Zadie Smith

philosophy, memoir

Written during the early months of the 2020 pandemic, this collection consists of six essays that analyze the sudden contraction of physical space and the expansion of internal reflection.
2

These Precious Days: Essays

by Ann Patchett

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Ann Patchett examines the unexpected connections and daily rituals that define a creative life.
3

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

by Maggie Smith

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Maggie Smith uses a nonlinear structure of vignettes to document the collapse of her marriage following the discovery of her husband’s infidelity.
4

Bad Feminist

by Roxane Gay

philosophy, memoir

Roxane Gay uses this collection of essays to analyze the contradictions between feminist ideology and contemporary pop culture.
5

The crack-up, with other uncollected pieces, note-books and unpublished letters, together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos, and essays and poems by Paul Rosenfeld [and others] Edited by Edmund Wilson

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

This collection centers on the psychological collapse of F.
6

Mortality

by Christopher Hitchens

Also inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Christopher Hitchens chronicles his final eighteen months following a stage four esophageal cancer diagnosis.
7

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

by Ann Patchett

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Ann Patchett organizes this collection of essays around the tethering forces of commitment and steady work.
8

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

by Mira Jacob

Also inward-looking · memoir, literary

In this graphic memoir, Mira Jacob documents a series of difficult discussions with her young son, her husband, and her extended family.
9

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Also inward-looking · philosophy, memoir

Written as a letter to his teenage son, Ta-Nehisi Coates frames the black body as the central site of American history and civic stability.
10

Everything Sad Is Untrue

by Daniel Nayeri

Also inward-looking · memoir, literary

Khosrou, called Daniel, is a twelve-year-old Iranian refugee living in a small town in Oklahoma.
11

The Zahir

by Paulo Coelho

Also inward-looking · philosophy, literary

Esther, a war correspondent, is married to a celebrated novelist, the narrator, who is living comfortably in Paris.
12

The Witch of Portobello

by Paulo Coelho

Also inward-looking · philosophy, literary

Athena is a woman born in Romania to a Roma mother, adopted as a baby by a Lebanese couple, and raised partly in Beirut and later in London.

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