Books like Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
12 books with a reading profile close to Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
practical, personal growth
Elizabeth Gilbert presents a theory of creativity where ideas are energetic life forms seeking human partners to bring them into the physical world.
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
practical, personal growth
In this epistolary manifesto, Adichie responds to a childhood friend’s request for advice on raising a daughter as a feminist.
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The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living
Also inward-looking · practical, personal growth
Julia Cameron structures this volume as a daily companion to her foundational creative recovery program.
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
by Austin Kleon
practical, personal growth
Austin Kleon argues that creativity stems from influence rather than original invention.
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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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Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
by Bob Goff
Also inward-looking · personal growth, inspirational
Bob Goff presents a collection of personal anecdotes that redefine Christian faith as an active verb rather than a static set of beliefs.
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The Power of Now Meditation Deck
Also inward-looking · personal growth, inspirational
The Power of Now Meditation Deck consists of fifty individual cards containing excerpts from Eckhart Tolle’s primary teachings on mindfulness.
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Greenlights
Also inward-looking · personal growth, inspirational
Matthew McConaughey presents a collection of stories and life filters derived from thirty-six years of his personal diaries.
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The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Also inward-looking · personal growth, inspirational
Amanda Palmer examines the mechanics of reciprocity and the psychological barriers that prevent individuals from requesting assistance.
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Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
by J.K. Rowling
Also inward-looking · personal growth, inspirational
Based on a 2008 commencement speech at Harvard University, this text examines two specific life lessons from the author’s period of poverty and professional rejection.
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The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
practical, personal growth
Margareta Magnusson introduces the practice of döstädning, a Swedish habit of organizing and decluttering one’s possessions before death to spare family members the burden of sorting through a lifetime of accumulation.
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Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence
by Sarah Young
Also inward-looking · personal growth, inspirational
Sarah Young’s 365-day devotional is written from a first-person perspective, where the narrator speaks as the voice of Jesus directly to the reader.
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