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

12 books with a reading profile close to One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp. Inward-looking, contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

The Last Lecture

by Randy Pausch

Also inward-looking and contemplative · 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.
2

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.
3

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.
4

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.
5

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.
6

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.
7

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.
8

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

by Gregory Boyle

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.
9

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.
10

Ghost Boy: My Miraculous Escape from a Life Locked Inside My Own Body

by Martin Pistorius

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

In January 1988, twelve-year-old Martin Pistorius fell ill with an undiagnosed brain infection that left him in a vegetative state.
11

Letter to My Daughter

by Maya Angelou

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

Maya Angelou addresses this collection of twenty-eight short essays to the symbolic daughter she never had, sharing personal anecdotes from her life in Arkansas, St.
12

The Power of Now Meditation Deck

by Eckhart Tolle

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

The Power of Now Meditation Deck consists of fifty individual cards containing excerpts from Eckhart Tolle’s primary teachings on mindfulness.

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