8 best-selling memoir books like This: Becoming Free by Michael Gungor

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This: Becoming Free

By: Michael Gungor

4.15

Format: None pages, None

Doubt-filled spiritual leader and reluctant Grammy-nominated Christian musician Michael Gungor fina…

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1. The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage

By: Rob Bell , Kristen Bell

3.82

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

As he revolutionized traditional teaching on hell in the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Love … read more

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"Even the slightest tremors of bitterness can block the flow of love."

-Rob Bell, The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage

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2. What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

By: Rob Bell

4.32

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • philosophy
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  • spirituality
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3. The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

By: Richard Rohr

4.26

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

For Christians seeking a way of thinking outside of strict dualities, this guide explores methods f… read more

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"When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting...you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic."

-Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

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4. The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

By: Joe Barrett , Peter Enns

3.63

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adamrecounts his transformative spir… read more

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  • christian
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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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5. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment

By: Robert Wright

3.64

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditat… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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6. Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism

By: Barry M. Prizant , Tom Fields-Meyer

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Essential reading for any parent, teacher, therapist, or caregiver of a person with autism: a groun… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile

By: Rob Bell , Don Golden

4.83

Format: 28 pages,

There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building.… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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8. The Friday Night Knitting Club (Friday Night Knitting Club, #1)

By: Kate Jacobs

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Hardcover

Once a week, an eclectic group of women comes together at a New York City yarn shop to work on thei… read more

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9. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Timesbestseller Misquoting Jesusleft off, Jesu… read more

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10. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

By: Robert M. Pirsig

3.78

Format: 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
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"This forest silence improves anyone."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"The more you read, the more you calm down."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

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11. Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

By: Richard Rohr

4.23

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

In Falling Upward , Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves o… read more

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"The ego hates losing – even to God."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

12. Jayber Crow

By: Wendell Berry

3.95

Format: 253 pages,

From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, seminarian, and native of Port… read more

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13. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

By: Rachel Held Evans

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

New York Timesbestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really me… read more

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14. The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

By: Richard Rohr , None

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Invitation to a Dance The Trinity is supposed to be the central, foundational doctrine of our entir… read more

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15. Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self

By: Richard Rohr

3.50

Format: 424 pages,

In "Falling Upward "(and in many of his other teachings), Richard Rohr talked at length about ego (… read more

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16. 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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17. Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science

By: Mike McHargue

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

From the host of the popular podcasts, The Liturgists Podcastand Ask Science Mike, a story of havin… read more

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18. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

By: Rob Bell

3.66

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God… read more

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"You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"Forgiveness is unilateral. God isn’t waiting for us to get it together, to clean up, shape up, get up - God has already done it."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. "What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

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19. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
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  • nonfiction
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20. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

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21. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

By: Beth Allison Barr

4.40

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, an… read more

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"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

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22. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

By: Richard Rohr

4.45

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With a new afterword - From one of the world's most influential spiritu… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
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23. So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin

By: Steve Martin

3.83

Format: 3 pages, Audiobook

Steve Martin is more candid than he’s ever been about his creative life in this engrossing audio-bi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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24. Love People, Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works

By: Joshua Fields Millburn

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

How might your life be better with less? Imagine a life with less: less stuff, less clutter, les… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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25. Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope

By: Megan Phelps-Roper

4.16

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • biography
  • memoir
"You know I love you. You know I do. It's not just the idea of you. I know you. You also know I'm not coming to Topeka."

-Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope

"It is disconcerting - shamefully, unimaginably so - to look back and accept that my fellow church members and I were collectively engaging in the most egregious display of logical blindness that I ha…"

-Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope

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26. Comedy Sex God

By: Pete Holmes

3.95

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest, Comedy Sex God is a hilar… read more

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  • memoir
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"I felt far more Christlike when I stopped calling myself a Christian."

-Pete Holmes, Comedy Sex God

"It took me over three decades to realize you're not supposed to think about paintings, flowers, or God, you're supposed to merge with them."

-Pete Holmes, Comedy Sex God

"I know it sounds strange, but I look back on my depression fondly. So much anxiety in my life comes from not knowing what to do or how to behave, but everyone knows how to be sad."

-Pete Holmes, Comedy Sex God

"I was always drowning in my own humanity, forever a spectator to the love and oneness I had heard stories about, like I had been sent away from the party for wearing the wrong clothes. But in this mo…"

-Pete Holmes, Comedy Sex God

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27. You're a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass): Embracing the Emotions, Habits, and Mystery That Make You You

By: Mike McHargue

4.13

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Why is there such a gap between what you want to do and what you actually do? The host of Ask Scien… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein

28. Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

By: Linda Kay Klein

4.17

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangeli… read more

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"The purity message nestles neatly into the larger “us"

-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

"Surviving gives you a very unique set of skills. It costs a lot. But it also makes you powerful."

-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

"This illustration is picture-perfect purity culture. In short, women's sexuality must be just right, so that men can spiritually thrive."

-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

"[T]he church had embedded the notion that sex was shameful so deeply into her brain that she couldn't shake it now that she was married and it was suddenly supposed to be okay."

-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

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29. The Most Beautiful Thing I've Seen: Opening Your Eyes to Wonder

By: Lisa Gungor

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Lisa Gungor thought she knew her own small-town girl meets boy in college and they blissfully walk… read more

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  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"I still see harsh comments online or receive them right to my face, comments on how we have fallen into the deep end, how we throw the word love around to too many people. And to that I’d say, “Oh, t…"

-Lisa Gungor, The Most Beautiful Thing I've Seen: Opening Your Eyes to Wonder

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30. The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors

By: Tony Jones

3.99

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

"I have read a lot of books in my life, but never one like this... This captivating memoir will tak… read more

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  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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31. This: Becoming Free

By: Michael Gungor

4.15

Format: None pages, None

Doubt-filled spiritual leader and reluctant Grammy-nominated Christian musician Michael Gungor fina… read more

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13 must-read faith books like This: Becoming Free by Michael Gungor

Transform Your Habits

What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

Rob Bell

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

Richard Rohr

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

Joe Barrett , Peter Enns

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile

Rob Bell , Don Golden

4.83

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9 must-read audiobook books like Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell

Transform Your Habits

Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

Rachel Held Evans

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Rob Bell

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

Richard Rohr

4.45

Transform Your Habits

How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News

Peter Enns

4.29

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