Books like The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
12 books with a reading profile close to The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Amanda Palmer. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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Greenlights
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.
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Untamed
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.
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What I Know for Sure
Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir
Oprah Winfrey collects essays, many drawn from her monthly column in O, The Oprah Magazine.
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One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
by Ann Voskamp
Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir
Ann Voskamp centers her narrative on the Greek concept of eucharisteo, which connects grace, thanksgiving, and joy.
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Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
Also inward-looking · 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.
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Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir
Gregory Boyle shares twenty years of experiences running Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program in Los Angeles.
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The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch
Also inward-looking · 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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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir
After filmmakers approached Donald Miller to adapt his memoir into a movie, he discovered that his actual life lacked the necessary structure for a functional screenplay.
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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Also inward-looking · 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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Milton's Secret
by Eckhart Tolle, Robert S. Friedman
Also inward-looking · personal growth, inspirational
Milton is a young boy who faces persistent anxiety due to a school bully named Carter.
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The Soul of a Woman
memoir, inspirational
In this memoir and manifesto, Isabel Allende traces her evolution from a young girl witnessing her mother’s financial dependence to a prominent voice in global feminism.
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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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