17 Top memoir books like Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays by Marcie Alvis Walker

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Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

By: Marcie Alvis Walker

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling memoir that explores what it means to become fully alive and holy when we embrace the si…

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1. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

By: Daniel José Older , Edwidge Danticat , Jesmyn Ward , Honorée Fanonne Jeffers , Claudia Rankine , Kevin Young , Carol Anderson , Isabel Wilkerson , Mitchell S. Jackson , Kiese Laymon , Natasha Trethewey , Clint Smith , None , Garnette Cadogan , None , None , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, T… read more

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2. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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3. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Chung's A Living Remedy: A Memoir book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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4. 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

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Somehow: Thoughts on Love book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
"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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5. How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

By: Emily P. Freeman

4.01

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when … read more

Similar categories in Emily P. Freeman's How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. Perish

By: LaToya Watkins

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From a stunning new voice comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, explori… read more

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  • race
  • audiobook
"Everybody wants to say bye, show the dying that they here and they somehow living on in spite of everything."

-LaToya Watkins, Perish

"Sometimes we don't get to understand things. People. We just got to try to be better than the things that spit us out. I don't know why my momma like she is, but I love her and got to keep on with it…"

-LaToya Watkins, Perish

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8. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

By: Cole Arthur Riley

4.63

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her … read more

Similar categories in Cole Arthur Riley's This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Anxiety is not a passive predator."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

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9. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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10. Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens

By: Kate Bowler

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the … read more

Similar categories in Kate Bowler's Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Tree. Table. Book.

By: Lois Lowry

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more

Similar categories in Lois Lowry's Tree. Table. Book. book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • audiobook
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12. 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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  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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

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13. The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents

By: Lisa Damour

4.47

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ in… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Damour's The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith by Sarah Bessey

14. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

By: Sarah Bessey

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"

-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

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15. Acceptance: A Memoir

By: Emi Nietfeld

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more

Similar categories in Emi Nietfeld's Acceptance: A Memoir book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

Cover of Congratulations, the Best is Over! by R. Eric Thomas

16. Congratulations, the Best is Over!

By: R. Eric Thomas

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."

-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!

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17. Ghosted: An American Story

By: Nancy French

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more

Similar categories in Nancy French's Ghosted: An American Story book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human by Cole Arthur Riley

18. Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human

By: Cole Arthur Riley

4.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the… read more

Similar categories in Cole Arthur Riley's Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • race
  • nonfiction
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19. God Is a Black Woman

By: Christena Cleveland

4.32

Format: 256 pages, ebook

In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland… read more

Similar categories in Christena Cleveland's God Is a Black Woman book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here by Kaitlyn Schiess

20. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

By: Kaitlyn Schiess

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn fro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

"What is government? What is the relationship between theology and politics? How should Christians think about their political participation? These questions typically get lost in our conversations. W…"

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

Cover of As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve by J.S. Park

21. As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

By: J.S. Park

4.63

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permissio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"It wasn't until I sat with patient after patient, from emergency room to deathbed, that I saw what they saw: In their illness or injury, I saw a memory loss of the future. This is called intrapsychic…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"She asks me, "How do you grieve someone you never met?" With each patient, I hear similar questions. It keeps emerging, this pulse. It presses in every room, leans on every shoulder, demands an answe…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"Speeding through grief always has a cost. To bury somebody's supposed-to-be is also to bury a story that's untold. When you bury someone's story like that, it gets lodged in the ribcage, it gets radi…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

Cover of Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin B. Curtice

22. Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice rec… read more

Similar categories in Kaitlin B. Curtice's Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most by Miroslav Volf

23. Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most

By: Miroslav Volf

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER " Life Worth Living is transcendent. A collection of wisdom pu… read more

Similar categories in Miroslav Volf's Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life by Amanda Held Opelt

24. Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life

By: Amanda Held Opelt

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Discover what it means to be blessed and challenge the false beliefs many in the church hold about … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Held Opelt's Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Logic doesn't always hold up against the complexity of real life. Our equations fail us. Our formulas break down and reasons escape us. We carry blessing, and we carry curse. Life is paradox. It cann…"

-Amanda Held Opelt, Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life

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25. Everything All at Once

By: Stephanie Catudal

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  Bestseller  An intimate and evocative memoir one woman’s experience with the univer… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Catudal's Everything All at Once book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing by Aundi Kolber

26. Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing

By: Aundi Kolber

4.50

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

There's a cost to being a certain kind of strong. When it comes to difficult circumstances, we'v… read more

Similar categories in Aundi Kolber's Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche A. Williams-Forson

27. Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America

By: Psyche A. Williams-Forson

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Bla… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From by Meredith Miller

28. Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From

By: Meredith Miller

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this inspiring parenting book, learn how to create space for your children to get to know God in… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Miller's Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories by Lisa-Jo Baker

29. It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories

By: Lisa-Jo Baker

4.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid… read more

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  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

By: Marcie Alvis Walker

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling memoir that explores what it means to become fully alive and holy when we embrace the si… read more

Similar categories in Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays book and Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
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31. The Garden of Broken Things

By: Francesca Momplaisir

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The gripping story of generations of women—mothers and daughters of Haiti—and the devastating earth… read more

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Transform Your Habits

How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Transform Your Habits

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

Transform Your Habits

How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

Emily P. Freeman

4.01

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Transform Your Habits

How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

Harrison Scott Key

4.07

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Wholehearted Faith

Rachel Held Evans

4.42

Transform Your Habits

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

John Mark Comer

4.63

Transform Your Habits

How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

Emily P. Freeman

4.01

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