Books like No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
12 books with a reading profile close to No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear by Kate Bowler. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.
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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.
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Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
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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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
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.
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
by Kate Bowler
Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir
At thirty-five, Kate Bowler was a professor at Duke Divinity School researching the prosperity gospel when she received a diagnosis of stage IV colon cancer.
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir
Cheryl Strayed compiles a series of anonymous advice columns written under the pseudonym Sugar, originally published on the website The Rumpus.
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Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir
Gregory Boyle shares twenty years of experiences running Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program in Los Angeles.
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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.
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The Choice: Embrace the Possible
by Edith Eger
Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir
In 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz, where she survived the manual labor camps and a death march by clinging to her internal mental landscape.
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Reasons to Stay Alive
by Matt Haig
Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir
At twenty-four, Matt Haig experienced a physical and mental breakdown in Ibiza that led to years of severe depression and panic disorder.
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Autobiography of a Yogi
Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir
Paramahansa Yogananda recounts his search for a spiritual teacher in early twentieth-century India, leading to his apprenticeship under the swami Sri Yukteswar Giri.
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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational
Michael J.
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom
Also inward-looking and contemplative · 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.
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