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Books like Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

12 books with a reading profile close to Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.

1

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…
2

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.
3

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.
4

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.
5

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

by Cheryl Strayed

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.
6

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.
7

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed

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.
8

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.
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

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.
11

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.
12

Autobiography of a Yogi

by Paramahansa Yogananda

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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