6 Best biography memoir books like As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned by Paula Stone Williams

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As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned

By: Paula Stone Williams

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This moving and unforgettable memoir of a transgender pastor’s transition from male to female is an…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned by Paula Stone Williams , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard

By: Alex Bertie

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Being a teenager is difficult enough, but having to go through puberty whilst realising you're in t… read more

Similar categories in Alex Bertie's Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard book and Paula Stone Williams's As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)

By: Edward Kelsey Moore

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and … read more

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  • audiobook
"I called up to Mama, "Is this a miracle?" She raised and lowered her shoulders. Her voice drifted down, "Maybe. Or maybe this is just what's supposed to be."

-Edward Kelsey Moore, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)

"I was free to appreciate the quiet and the way the yellowish-gray light of the rising sun entered the room, turning everything from black and white to color. The journey from Kansas to Oz right in my…"

-Edward Kelsey Moore, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)

"I looked around for that welcoming light I'd heard about, but I didn't see it. Instead, everything around me seemed to glow and shimmer in the sunlight. I heard beautiful sounds-not the voices of dea…"

-Edward Kelsey Moore, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)

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3. My Brief History

By: Stephen Hawking

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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4. Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

By: Krista Tippett

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

"I'm a person who listens for a living. I listen for wisdom, and beauty, and for voices not shoutin… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction

5. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs

By: Peter Enns

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more

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6. Gracefully Grayson

By: Ami Polonsky

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Hardcover

Alone at home, twelve-year-old Grayson Sender glows, immersed in beautiful thoughts and dreams. But… read more

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7. Revolutionary Girl Utena, Vol. 1: To Till

By: Chiho Saitō , Be-Papas

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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8. Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

By: Laura Jane Grace

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME" The provocative transgender advocate and … read more

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9. Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us

By: None

3.93

Format: 152 pages,

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10. Being Jazz

By: Jazz Jennings

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Audio CD

Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent voices in the national discussion about gen… read more

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11. Learning to Walk in the Dark

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor's Learnin… read more

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12. Transgender History

By: Susan Stryker

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more

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13. An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church("a beautiful, absorbing memoir."--Dallas Morning News), … read more

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14. Gender Euphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

4.11

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

"If you don’t mind keeping a secret, I can tell you that the reality is that people ask fewer questions about what’s going on in your pants if they’re distracted by what you’ve got drawn on your arms."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

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15. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Paula Stone Williams's As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

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16. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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17. On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care

By: Victor Ray

4.35

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

4.40

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can."

-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

"I had lived so long in the mainstream that I never even though about how I sounded from the margins"

-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

"The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor... Jesus never commanded me to love my religion."

-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

"...religion is more than a source of conflict or a calculated way to stay out of hell. Religions are treasure chests of stories, songs, rituals, and ways of life that have been handed down for millen…"

-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

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19. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

By: Peter Enns

4.36

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • biography
  • audiobook
"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

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20. 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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  • religion
  • 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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21. Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet

By: Meggan Watterson

4.25

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

--WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER-- The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a very different love story… read more

Similar categories in Meggan Watterson's Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet book and Paula Stone Williams's As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned

  • feminism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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22. A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal

By: Amena Brown

4.40

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the weary, the angry, the anxious, and the hopeful, this collection… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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23. No One Tells You This

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.91

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then?This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"We're always drawn to the clearest articulation of what we think we lack."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"And I knew the simple act of reading would give my mind a certain sort of peace nothing else could."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"We're the first generation that can make enough of our own money to live the way we want. I feel like we have a responsibility to figure out what this means."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"This is why people have babies...because it's exhausting not to know what you're supposed to do next. A baby is basically a nonnegotiable map for the next two decades."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

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24. 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

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. The Brilliance of Stars (Jack and Ivy, #1)

By: J'nell Ciesielski

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Amid the chaos of the Great War, two master assassins risk it all for love. Washington DC, 1914.… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Jameela Green Ruins Everything by Zarqa Nawaz

26. Jameela Green Ruins Everything

By: Zarqa Nawaz

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“I think we got off on the wrong foot, with you telling me I had to be killed and then me getting a… read more

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  • religion
  • audiobook
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27. As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned

By: Paula Stone Williams

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This moving and unforgettable memoir of a transgender pastor’s transition from male to female is an… read more

Similar categories in Paula Stone Williams's As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned book and Paula Stone Williams's As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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28. In the Margins: A Transgender Man’s Journey with Scripture

By: Shannon T.L. Kearns

4.60

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Moving the conversation beyond transgender inclusion to demonstrate the unique and vital theologica… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"My transition was a homecoming, a process of making peace, a fulfillment of my calling. When Jesus said he came so we would have abundant life (John 10:10), I think this is part of what he's talking …"

-Shannon T.L. Kearns, In the Margins: A Transgender Man’s Journey with Scripture

"The message of the eunuchs also calls us to look around and ask: Who is being excluded? Who is not welcome? Who is there no space for? [...] There is nothing to prevent them from being baptized. Ther…"

-Shannon T.L. Kearns, In the Margins: A Transgender Man’s Journey with Scripture

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29. Silly Boobies: A Love Story

By: Ame Dyckman

4.58

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times bestselling author and a Theodor Seuss Geisel Award–winning illustrator, a pl… read more

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30. With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism

By: Laura L. Lovett

3.88

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work mad… read more

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  • biography
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. She's My Dad: A Father’s Transition and a Son’s Redemption

By: Jonathan S. Williams

3.81

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Jonathan S. Williams was three months into pastoring a new, evangelical church plant when his fathe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt

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Alex Bertie

4.05

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Edward Kelsey Moore

3.99

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Elliot Page

3.75

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Christian Cooper

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4.08

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4.37

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