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12 books with a reading profile close to Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.

1

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed faced the collapse of her world following her mother’s sudden death from cancer and the subsequent disintegration of her marriage.
2

Pageboy

by Elliot Page

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

In this memoir, Elliot Page recounts his transition from a closeted actor in the public eye to a man living authentically.
3

Gender Queer: A Memoir

by Maia Kobabe

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir chronicles the internal process of identifying as nonbinary and asexual.
4

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

by Lara Love Hardin

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

Lara Love Hardin recounts her rapid descent from a soccer mom in an affluent neighborhood to an inmate in a California county jail.
5

Mom & Me & Mom

by Maya Angelou

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

Maya Angelou documents the complicated reconnection with her mother, Vivian Baxter, who abandoned her for a decade during her childhood.
6

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

by Anne Lamott

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

Anne Lamott details her transition from a chaotic, addiction-fueled upbringing into a singular practice of Christianity centered at St.
7

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…
8

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

by Katherine May

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

Katherine May presents wintering as a recurring, inevitable season of life characterized by personal crisis, illness, or professional failure.
9

Blankets

by Craig Thompson

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

Craig Thompson’s autobiographical graphic novel chronicles his upbringing within a strict Evangelical household in the rural Midwest.
10

All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

by Beth Moore

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

In this memoir, Beth Moore recounts her upbringing in Arkansas and Texas, revealing the private instability that existed behind her public image as a Bible teacher.
11

A House in the Sky

by Amanda Lindhout

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

In 2008, freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout and photographer Nigel Brennan were kidnapped by teenage militants while traveling near Mogadishu, Somalia.
12

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

by Suleika Jaouad

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

At age twenty-two, Suleika Jaouad received a diagnosis of leukemia with a thirty-five percent chance of survival.

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