7 must-read nonfiction books like The Hundred Story Home: A Memoir of Finding Faith in Ourselves and Something Bigger by Kathy Izard

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The Hundred Story Home: A Memoir of Finding Faith in Ourselves and Something Bigger

By: Kathy Izard

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Kathy Izard was a graphic designer, wife, mother of four daughters, and volunteer at Charlotte’s Ur…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Hundred Story Home: A Memoir of Finding Faith in Ourselves and Something Bigger by Kathy Izard , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

By: Gregory Boyle

4.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Father Gregory Boyle’s sparkling parables about kinship and the sacredness of life are drawn from t… read more

Similar categories in Gregory Boyle's Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion book and Kathy Izard's The Hundred Story Home: A Memoir of Finding Faith in Ourselves and Something Bigger

  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • inspirational
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"If you can't fix it, feature it."

-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

"Sometimes, it only seems that the hurt wins."

-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

"Terror melting into wonder, then slipping into peace."

-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

"[T]he principal suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace."

-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

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2. The Last Ballad

By: Wiley Cash

4.67

Format: 121 pages, ebook

The author of the celebrated bestseller A Land More Kind Than Homereturns with this eagerly awaited… read more

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3. The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

By: Ian Morgan Cron , Suzanne Stabile

4.21

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Ignorance is bliss except in self-awareness... What you don't know about yourself can hurt you a… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"The Enneagram is a tool that awakens our compassion for people just as they are, not the people we wish they would become so our lives would become easier."

-Ian Morgan Cron, The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

4. Testimony

By: Anita Shreve

4.16

Format: 293 pages,

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexu… read more

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5. Same Kind of Different as Me

By: Lynn Vincent , Ron Hall , Denver Moore

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escap… read more

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6. The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)

By: Herman Wouk

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the… read more

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7. A Light on the Hill (Cities of Refuge, #1)

By: Connilyn Cossette

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

After being branded during the battle of Jericho, Moriyah has had no prospects for marriage--until … read more

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8. Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall

By: Nina Willner

4.27

Format: None pages, ebook

In this memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War es… read more

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9. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • inspirational
  • spirituality
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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10. By Any Other Name

By: Jodi Picoult

4.19

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about … read more

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11. Authentically, Izzy (Skymar, #1)

By: Pepper Basham

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

“Dear Izzy—I feel certain there’s a book-loving man living relatively nearby waiting to speak booki… read more

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  • christian
"The place where they lived within my heart is still being held for them, like a bookmark of sorts - waiting to see them again."

-Pepper Basham, Authentically, Izzy (Skymar, #1)

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12. The Fifth Avenue Story Society

By: Rachel Hauck

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An invitation to join The Fifth Avenue Story Society gives five New York strangers a chance to rewr… read more

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  • christian
"She didn’t resist the rush of tears. If there was no sadness about leaving New York, then her time here would’ve meant nothing."

-Rachel Hauck, The Fifth Avenue Story Society

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13. Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

ECPA Christian Book of the YearChristianity Today Book of the YearForeword INDIES Book of the Year … read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Voor christenen is slaap een belichaamde manier om te belijden dat we erop vertrouwen dat het werk van God niet van ons afhangt."

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Bescherm wie blij zijn. In dit gebed erkennen we de kwetsbaarheid van vreugde. We vragen God om mensen die blij zijn te beschermen, om dat deel in ons te beschermen dat moedig genoeg is om te geloven…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Hoewel de statistieken laten zien dat hier in het Westen met name jonge mensen afdwalen naar ongeloof, deels vanwege het probleem van het kwaad, lijkt onze welvaart veel meer twijfel te veroorzaken d…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Het profetisch getuigenis van de kerk in een woedecultuur is om mensen te zijn die weten hoe we samen moeten huilen over de pijn en onrechtvaardigheid in de wereld en over de realiteit van onze eigen…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

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14. Where We Come From

By: Oscar Cásares

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A stunning and timely novel about a Mexican-American family in Brownsville, Texas, that reluctantly… read more

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  • social justice
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15. The Excitements

By: C.J. Wray

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A brilliant and witty drama about two elderly female World War II veterans with a secret past who e… read more

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16. The Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery

By: Amanda Cox

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Present Day. After tragedy plunges her into grief and unresolved anger, Sarah Ashby returns to her … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cox's The Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery book and Kathy Izard's The Hundred Story Home: A Memoir of Finding Faith in Ourselves and Something Bigger

  • christian
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17. Unmarriageable

By: Soniah Kamal

3.74

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

In this one-of-a-kind retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has … read more

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"real happiness in marriage seems a matter of chance. You can marry a seemingly perfect person and they can transform before your eyes into imperfection, or you can marry a flawed person and they can …"

-Soniah Kamal, Unmarriageable

"Alys gave a small smile. "I wrestle with how to incorporate history. Can any amount of good ever merit the interference of empire? Do we never speak English again? Not read the literature? Erasing hi…"

-Soniah Kamal, Unmarriageable

"Ever since I could remember, I'd been engaging in literary transference/transplantation/translation from one culture to another. Growing up on English literature, I taught myself to see my daily real…"

-Soniah Kamal, Unmarriageable

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18. The Cape Doctor

By: E.J. Levy

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beginning in Cork, Ireland, the novel recounts Jonathan Mirandus Perry’s journey from daughter to s… read more

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Cover of Workin' Our Way Home: The Incredible True Story of a Homeless Ex-Con and a Grieving Millionaire Thrown Together to Save Each Other by Ron Hall

19. Workin' Our Way Home: The Incredible True Story of a Homeless Ex-Con and a Grieving Millionaire Thrown Together to Save Each Other

By: Ron Hall

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The heartwarming sequel to Same Kind of Different As Me ! After Miss Debbie's death in 2000, her hu… read more

Similar categories in Ron Hall's Workin' Our Way Home: The Incredible True Story of a Homeless Ex-Con and a Grieving Millionaire Thrown Together to Save Each Other book and Kathy Izard's The Hundred Story Home: A Memoir of Finding Faith in Ourselves and Something Bigger

  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • inspirational
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hundred Story Home: A Memoir of Finding Faith in Ourselves and Something Bigger by Kathy Izard

20. The Hundred Story Home: A Memoir of Finding Faith in Ourselves and Something Bigger

By: Kathy Izard

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Kathy Izard was a graphic designer, wife, mother of four daughters, and volunteer at Charlotte’s Ur… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Izard's The Hundred Story Home: A Memoir of Finding Faith in Ourselves and Something Bigger book and Kathy Izard's The Hundred Story Home: A Memoir of Finding Faith in Ourselves and Something Bigger

  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • inspirational
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • social justice
Cover of Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir by Mary L. Trump

21. Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir

By: Mary L. Trump

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! A New York Times Nonfiction Book to R… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

5 best-selling spirituality books like The Hundred Story Home: A Memoir of Finding Faith in Ourselves and Something Bigger by Kathy Izard

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Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

Gregory Boyle

4.48

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4.21

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Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

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Becca Kinzer

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4.39

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Denise Hunter

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