10 Best memoir books like This Wheel of Rocks: An Unexpected Spiritual Journey by Sister Marya Grathwohl

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This Wheel of Rocks: An Unexpected Spiritual Journey

By: Sister Marya Grathwohl

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The memoir of a Catholic nun’s spiritual journey that explores the deep connections between faith a…

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1. The Persian Pickle Club

By: Sandra Dallas

4.26

Format: 331 pages,

It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and t… read more

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2. Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

By: John O'Donohue

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging. John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you… read more

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  • spirituality
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3. Till We Have Faces

By: C.S. Lewis

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more

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4. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

By: Elisabeth Tova Bailey

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey s… read more

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  • memoir

5. The Father's Tale

By: Michael D. O'Brien

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Canadian bookseller Alex Graham is a middle-age widower whose quiet life is turned upside down when… read more

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6. The Undoing of Saint Silvanus

By: Beth Moore

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Only God knew why Jillian Slater agreed to return to New Orleans on the news that her father had fi… read more

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7. Holy Moments: A handbook for the rest of your life

By: Matthew Kelly

3.95

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

You have so much more to offer. You know it. You have sensed it for some time now. This sacred trut… read more

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"Make choices that are easy to live with."

-Matthew Kelly, Holy Moments: A handbook for the rest of your life

"Don’t underestimate yourself, God doesn’t!"

-Matthew Kelly, Holy Moments: A handbook for the rest of your life

"Holy Moments are going to make you insanely happy."

-Matthew Kelly, Holy Moments: A handbook for the rest of your life

"You were made in the image of God. Act accordingly!"

-Matthew Kelly, Holy Moments: A handbook for the rest of your life

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8. Calling for a Blanket Dance

By: Oscar Hokeah

4.25

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more

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"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

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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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  • memoir
  • 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. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

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"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

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11. At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities

By: Heather Webber

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious letter. An offer taken. And the chance to move forward. When Ava Harrison receives … read more

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12. Crow Mary

By: Kathleen Grissom

4.33

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more

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13. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

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  • memoir
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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14. 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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  • memoir
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15. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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16. The Library of Lost and Found

By: Phaedra Patrick

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people - though not fo… read more

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"You should always make time for books"

-Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found

"You're still the same people, underneath."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found

"Sometimes there's no right decision. Just the one you make at the time."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found

"They set off and drove up and along Maltsborough road to the sound of AC/DC, played volume level two and a half."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found

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17. Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology

By: Noelle Mering

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

  “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.” —Ephesians 5:14   T… read more

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  • spirituality
"While woke ideology appears as a benevolent fight for justice, it is far from that. It lures us in with an appeal to our better natures, then replaces intelligible principles with distorted ones, res…"

-Noelle Mering, Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology

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18. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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19. The Lost Vintage

By: Ann Mah

4.03

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Sweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turning novel about a woman who returns to her famil… read more

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20. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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  • memoir
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21. When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown

By: Kenan Thompson

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When I Was Your Age  is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older a… read more

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  • memoir
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22. 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

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  • memoir
"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

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23. Coronation Year

By: Jennifer Robson

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The USA Today bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal-adjacent hi… read more

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24. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned

By: Brian D. McLaren

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian D. McLaren… read more

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  • spirituality
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25. Kill Show

By: Daniel Sweren-Becker

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national… read more

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"Some people chalk up every violent act against women to a boy who never got kissed in Middle School...I hate that framework because it implies it's somehow every teenage girl's responsibility to dole…"

-Daniel Sweren-Becker, Kill Show

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26. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”

By: Héctor Tobar

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more

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  • memoir
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27. The Bass Rock

By: Evie Wyld

3.70

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its … read more

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"Joseph recalls his mother who was “mad and screaming like birds were sewn under her skin"

-Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock

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28. Ædnan

By: Linnea Axelsson

4.23

Format: 762 pages, Hardcover

Ædnan är ett mäktigt epos som på en ordknapp vers berättar om två samiska familjer. I deras öden sp… read more

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29. The Lighthouse: A Novel

By: Michael D. O'Brien

4.51

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Ethan McQuarry is a young lighthouse keeper on a tiny island, the rugged outcropping of easternmost… read more

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30. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

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  • memoir
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31. This Wheel of Rocks: An Unexpected Spiritual Journey

By: Sister Marya Grathwohl

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The memoir of a Catholic nun’s spiritual journey that explores the deep connections between faith a… read more

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John O'Donohue

3.79

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Matthew Kelly

3.95

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Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

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Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology

Noelle Mering

4.31

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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