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12 books with a reading profile close to Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

The Choice: Embrace the Possible

by Edith Eger

Also inward-looking · 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.
2

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…
3

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

by Jill Bolte Taylor

Also inward-looking · memoir, inspirational

In 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist at Harvard University, suffered a massive stroke caused by a hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain.
4

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

by David Sheff

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

David Sheff chronicles the years he spent navigating his son Nic’s addiction to methamphetamine and various other drugs.
5

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

by Cheryl Strayed

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Cheryl Strayed compiles a series of anonymous advice columns written under the pseudonym Sugar, originally published on the website The Rumpus.
6

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.
7

Sociopath

by Patric Gagne

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Patric Gagne recounts her life as a person diagnosed with sociopathy, challenging the assumption that the condition is synonymous with villainy.
8

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

by Lori Gottlieb

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Lori Gottlieb presents a dual narrative that follows her life as a psychotherapist and as a patient following a personal crisis.
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

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

by Shauna Niequist

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Shauna Niequist documents her transition from a life of constant performance and exhaustion to one rooted in stillness and connection.
11

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed

Also inward-looking · 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.
12

What My Bones Know

by Stephanie Foo

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Stephanie Foo chronicles her transition from a high-functioning radio producer to a patient diagnosed with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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