10 must-read biography books like Even in Our Darkness: A Story of Beauty in a Broken Life by Jack Deere

Cover of Even in Our Darkness: A Story of Beauty in a Broken Life by Jack Deere

Even in Our Darkness: A Story of Beauty in a Broken Life

By: Jack Deere

4.27

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Where is God when the story of your life falls apart? "On the morning of December 31, 2000, I wa…

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Cover of The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys by Lynne Barrett-Lee, Marina Chapman

1. The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys

By: Lynne Barrett-Lee , Marina Chapman

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The poignant story of a girl who overcomes unique hardship and deprivation - growing up with a troo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate by Jerry Bridges

2. Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate

By: Jerry Bridges

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Have Christians become so preoccupied with "major" sins that we have lost sight of our need to deal… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World by Paul E. Miller

3. A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

By: Paul E. Miller

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Author Paul Miller shares his insights and conclusions about how to connect the broken pieces of yo… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End by David      Gibson

4. Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End

By: David Gibson

3.24

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Only by keeping the end in mind can a person truly learn how to live in the here and now. Living in… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs

5. The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

By: Jeremiah Burroughs

4.33

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Jeremiah Burroughs is worthily reckoned as belonging to the front rank of English puritan preachers… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not."

-Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

"Christian, how did you enjoy comfort before? Was the creature anything to you but a conduit, a pipe, that conveyed God's goodness to you? 'The pipe is cut off,' says God, 'come to me, the fountain, a…"

-Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

"In a clock, stop but one wheel and you stop every wheel, because they are dependent upon one other. So when God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how do you know how many thing…"

-Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

Cover of God's Smuggler by John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill, Brother Andrew

6. God's Smuggler

By: John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill , Brother Andrew

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a boy he dreamed of being a spy undercover behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself underco… read more

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  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • faith
  • nonfiction
Cover of Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope. by Christopher Yuan, Angela Yuan, Kay Warren

7. Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope.

By: Christopher Yuan , Angela Yuan , Kay Warren

3.76

Format: None pages,

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  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • faith
  • nonfiction

8. The Unseen Realm

By: Michael S. Heiser

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In The Unseen Realm, Dr. Michael Heiser examines the ancient context of Scripture, explaining how i… read more

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9. A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

By: Elisabeth Elliot

4.21

Format: 160 pages,

A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent … read more

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10. Twenty and Ten

By: William Pène du Bois , Claire Huchet Bishop

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

During the Nazi occupation of France, twenty ordinary French kids in a boarding school agree to hid… read more

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11. Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

By: Lysa TerKeurst

4.31

Format: 256 pages,

Made to Crave is the missing link between a woman s desire to be healthy and the spiritual empowerm… read more

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12. Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries

By: Gerald L. Sittser

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Rome in A.D. 165, two men named Carpus and Papylus stood before the proconsul of Pergamum, charg… read more

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13. Practicing the Power

By: Matt Chandler , Sam Storms

2.00

Format: 232 pages,

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14. The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The Wounded Healeris a hope-filled and simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who … read more

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15. Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

By: Mark Vroegop

4.54

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Lament is how you live between the poles of a hard life and trusting God's goodness. Lament is h… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"To cry is human, but to lament is Christian."

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

"Every lament is a prayer; a statement of faith"

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

"When brokenness becomes your life, lament helps you turn to God. It lifts your head and turns your tear-filled eyes toward the only hope you have: God's grace."

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

"The lament of Good Friday was answered three days later with the empty tomb. The greatest injustice in history became the greatest display of divine mercy. Tragedy became triumph. Lament was the voic…"

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

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16. Women Who Risk: Secret Agents for Jesus in the Muslim World

By: Tom Doyle

4.70

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

For the first time ever Tom Doyle, popular author and pastor to the unreached, is joined by his wif… read more

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  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did by John Mark Comer

17. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

By: John Mark Comer

4.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of For a Lifetime (Timeless, #3) by Gabrielle  Meyer

18. For a Lifetime (Timeless, #3)

By: Gabrielle Meyer

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Grace and Hope are identical twin sisters born with the ability to time-cross together between 1692… read more

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  • christian
  • audiobook
Cover of Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer by Tyler Staton

19. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

By: Tyler Staton

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Suffering is Never for Nothing by Elisabeth Elliot

20. Suffering is Never for Nothing

By: Elisabeth Elliot

4.68

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

Hard times come for all in life, with no real explanation. When we walk through suffering, it has t… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"Faith is not a feeling. Faith is willed obedience in action."

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

"The love of God is not a sentiment. It is a willed and inexorable love that will command nothing less than the very best for us. The love of God wills our joy. I think of the love of God as being syn…"

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

"It’s He who was the Word before the foundation of the world, suffering as a lamb slain. And He has a lot up His sleeve that you and I haven’t the slightest idea about now. He’s told us enough so that…"

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

"We are not adrift in chaos. To me that is the most fortifying, the most stabilizing, the most peace-giving thing that I know about anything in the universe. Every time that things have seemingly fall…"

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

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21. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

By: Shannon Harris

3.77

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more

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  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"But the truth was that church was making me ill. Even the loveliest church in the world couldn't make up for the fact that I had had too much church. My body was rejecting Bible verses with the stren…"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

"...the hypocrisy of it all was too much to take. To have heard the words 'forgiveness' and 'grace' in hundreds of sermons, thousands of prayers, in every quote, every song, at every meeting and then …"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

"Religion carries with it great potential for good and for harm. It's humans that make it more complicated (and more certain) and heavier than it needs to be. Religion shouldn't be something heavy we …"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

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22. Where the Light Fell

By: Philip Yancey

4.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this searing meditation on the bonds of family and the allure of extremist faith, one of today's… read more

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  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • faith
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South by Esau McCaulley

23. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

By: Esau McCaulley

4.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more

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  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • faith
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"

-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

Cover of Taken at Birth: Stolen Babies, Hidden Lies, and My Journey to Finding Home by Jane Blasio

24. Taken at Birth: Stolen Babies, Hidden Lies, and My Journey to Finding Home

By: Jane Blasio

3.60

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the 1940s through the 1960s, young pregnant women entered the front door of a clinic in a smal… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Seeing Beautiful Again: 50 Devotions to Find Redemption in Every Part of Your Story by Lysa TerKeurst

25. Seeing Beautiful Again: 50 Devotions to Find Redemption in Every Part of Your Story

By: Lysa TerKeurst

4.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the middle of the pain you didn't cause, the change you didn't want, the reality you didn't know… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Set the Stars Alight by Amanda Dykes

26. Set the Stars Alight

By: Amanda Dykes

4.39

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Lucy Clairmont's family treasured the magic of the past, and her childhood fascination with stories… read more

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  • christian
"Here they were. Two souls, buried alive beneath the earth beside the sea, in a place of nowhere - an empty cave that felt impossibly full as Juliette took flight where there was no sky."

-Amanda Dykes, Set the Stars Alight

"Everyone knows. I think even Clara knows, deep down, though she's convinced that advertising that the farm is wireless - for her meaning without Internet - adds to the draw of the place. So we all pr…"

-Amanda Dykes, Set the Stars Alight

"He is coming, and coming, and coming after you. In every sunset, in every snatch of birdsong In everything that stirs deep into you and makes you hungry for bigger things, eternal things. That is Him…"

-Amanda Dykes, Set the Stars Alight

"He is coming, and coming, and coming, and coming after you. In every sunset, in every snatch of birdsong In everything that stirs deep into you and makes you hungry for bigger things, eternal things.…"

-Amanda Dykes, Set the Stars Alight

Cover of When to Walk Away: Finding Freedom from Toxic People by Gary L. Thomas

27. When to Walk Away: Finding Freedom from Toxic People

By: Gary L. Thomas

4.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Your life's calling is too important to let toxic people take it away. When to Walk Away draws from… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
Cover of Even in Our Darkness: A Story of Beauty in a Broken Life by Jack Deere

28. Even in Our Darkness: A Story of Beauty in a Broken Life

By: Jack Deere

4.27

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Where is God when the story of your life falls apart? "On the morning of December 31, 2000, I wa… read more

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  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • theology
  • faith
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of The Language of Heaven: Crucial Questions About Speaking in Tongues by Sam Storms

29. The Language of Heaven: Crucial Questions About Speaking in Tongues

By: Sam Storms

4.10

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

What does the gift giver say about the gift He gave? This book will help you overcome the arguments… read more

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  • christian
Cover of Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser

30. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Drovers Road (Drovers Road, #1) by Joyce West

31. Drovers Road (Drovers Road, #1)

By: Joyce West

4.58

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

Gabrielle Allan (called Gay) is living contentedly on Drovers Road, her Uncle Dunsany’s sheep stati… read more

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12 must-read audiobook books like Even in Our Darkness: A Story of Beauty in a Broken Life by Jack Deere

Transform Your Habits

The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

Jeremiah Burroughs

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Women Who Risk: Secret Agents for Jesus in the Muslim World

Tom Doyle

4.70

Transform Your Habits

Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

John Mark Comer

4.63

Transform Your Habits

For a Lifetime (Timeless, #3)

Gabrielle Meyer

4.55

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Captive in Iran

John R. Perry , Maryam Rostampour , Marziyeh Amirizadeh

4.29

Transform Your Habits

God's Double Agent: The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom

Bob Fu

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The 3D Gospel: Ministry in Guilt, Shame, and Fear Cultures

Jayson Georges

3.62

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Art of Disciple Making

LeRoy Eims

4.06

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