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12 books with a reading profile close to Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. Inward-looking, contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

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.
2

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

by Lara Love Hardin

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

Lara Love Hardin recounts her rapid descent from a soccer mom in an affluent neighborhood to an inmate in a California county jail.
3

Mom & Me & Mom

by Maya Angelou

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

Maya Angelou documents the complicated reconnection with her mother, Vivian Baxter, who abandoned her for a decade during her childhood.
4

Pageboy

by Elliot Page

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

In this memoir, Elliot Page recounts his transition from a closeted actor in the public eye to a man living authentically.
5

All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

by Beth Moore

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

In this memoir, Beth Moore recounts her upbringing in Arkansas and Texas, revealing the private instability that existed behind her public image as a Bible teacher.
6

A House in the Sky

by Amanda Lindhout

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

In 2008, freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout and photographer Nigel Brennan were kidnapped by teenage militants while traveling near Mogadishu, Somalia.
7

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…
8

The Beauty in Breaking

by Michele Harper

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational

Michele Harper, an emergency room physician, details her life through a series of clinical encounters and personal upheavals.
9

Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

by Rob Sheffield

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Rob Sheffield uses fifteen physical mix tapes to structure the story of his marriage to Renée Crist, a fellow music critic who died suddenly from a pulmonary embolism at age thirty-one.
10

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity

by Nabeel Qureshi

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational

Nabeel Qureshi describes his upbringing in a devout Ahmadiyya Muslim household, focusing on his childhood immersion in Islamic apologetics and Quranic study.
11

From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

by Jesse Thistle

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational

Jesse Thistle was born to a Métis and Cree father and a Scottish-Canadian mother, and was abandoned with his brothers by his parents as a small child.
12

A Long Way Home

by Saroo Brierley

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational

At five years old, Saroo Brierley fell asleep on a parked train in rural India and woke up thousands of miles away in Kolkata.

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