Books like Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
12 books with a reading profile close to Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.
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Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
Also inward-looking · self help, personal growth
Shauna Niequist documents her transition from a life of constant performance and exhaustion to one rooted in stillness and connection.
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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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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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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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Entering the Now (Power of Now)
Also inward-looking and contemplative · self help, personal growth
Eckhart Tolle argues that human suffering stems from a compulsive identification with the analytical mind and a constant psychological drift into the past or future.
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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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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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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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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Also inward-looking · self help, personal growth
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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Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did
Also inward-looking · self help, personal growth
John Mark Comer argues that modern Christianity has exchanged the rigorous apprenticeship of Jesus for a passive belief system.
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Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
Also inward-looking and contemplative · self help, personal growth
Practicing the Power of Now functions as a targeted manual for implementing the principle of present-moment awareness.
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A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Also inward-looking · self help, personal growth
Marianne Williamson translates the metaphysical foundation of the 1976 text A Course in Miracles into a practical guide for daily living.
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