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12 books with a reading profile close to Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes by Shauna Niequist. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

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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…
2

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.
3

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.
4

Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

by Shauna Niequist

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

Shauna Niequist documents her transition from a life of constant performance and exhaustion to one rooted in stillness and connection.
5

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

by Anne Lamott

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Anne Lamott details her transition from a chaotic, addiction-fueled upbringing into a singular practice of Christianity centered at St.
6

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.
7

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.
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Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

by Rich Roll

Also clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

Rich Roll details his transition from a sedentary, forty-year-old corporate lawyer struggling with alcoholism and poor cardiovascular health to an elite endurance athlete.
9

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.
10

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.
11

Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been

by Jackie Hill Perry

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational

Jackie Hill Perry details her personal history of same-sex attraction and her subsequent conversion to Christianity.
12

Tramp for the Lord

by Corrie ten Boom

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational

Following her release from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Corrie ten Boom spent twenty years traveling as a global itinerant speaker.

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