23 must-read nonfiction books like jaded: a poetic reckoning with white evangelical christian indoctrination by Marla Taviano

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jaded: a poetic reckoning with white evangelical christian indoctrination

By: Marla Taviano

4.76

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

"An unrelenting love letter to the deconstructing exvangelical in all of us, jaded kicks your ass i…

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1. Last Days of Summer

By: Steve Kluger

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A contemporary American classic--a poignant and hilarious tale of baseball, hero worship, eccentric… read more

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2. The Mermaid Chair

By: Sue Monk Kidd

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition exists . Sue Monk Kidd's phenomenal debut, The Secret Life of Bees, bec… read more

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3. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

By: William Blake

4.09

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more

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  • poetry
"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

4. Raymie Nightingale

By: Kate DiCamillo

3.27

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Raymie Clarke has come to realize that everything, absolutely everything, depends on her. And she h… read more

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5. 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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6. Wholehearted Faith

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.42

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life con… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Many of us have found a renewed sense of possibility when we've realized how much of God's beauty remains to be explored — and that the life of faith is also a life of holy curiosity."

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

"It is nearly impossible to believe: God shrinking down to the size of a zygote, implanted in the soft lining of a woman’s womb. God growing fingers and toes. God kicking and hiccupping in utero. God …"

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

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7. 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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  • nonfiction
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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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8. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

By: Shannon Harris

3.77

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
"But the truth was that church was making me ill. Even the loveliest church in the world couldn't make up for the fact that I had had too much church. My body was rejecting Bible verses with the stren…"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

"...the hypocrisy of it all was too much to take. To have heard the words 'forgiveness' and 'grace' in hundreds of sermons, thousands of prayers, in every quote, every song, at every meeting and then …"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

"Religion carries with it great potential for good and for harm. It's humans that make it more complicated (and more certain) and heavier than it needs to be. Religion shouldn't be something heavy we …"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

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9. 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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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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10. 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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  • nonfiction
"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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11. 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

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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12. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round

By: Jami Attenberg

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. 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
  • spirituality
"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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14. The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

By: Jemar Tisby

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Throughout the course of US history, when Christians had the opportunity to decisively oppose the racism in their midst, all too often, they chose silence. They chose passivity. The refusal to act…"

-Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

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15. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

By: Virginia Sole-Smith

4.31

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is b… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

By: Nadia Bolz-Weber

4.21

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

Annotation: "Nothing gives church folk anxiety quite like the subject of sex. And that's why in Sh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings."

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"In my pastoral work I've started to suspect that the more someone was exposed to religious messages about controlling their desires, avoiding sexual thoughts, and not lusting in their hearts, the les…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"To God, everyone is different but no one is special. You're not special for being straight. Or gay. Or male. Or cis. Or trans. Or asexual. Or married. Or sexually prodigious. Or a virgin. We all have…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collectiv…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

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17. Good Grief

By: Brianna M. Pastor

4.06

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An expanded edition with over forty brand-new poems of the bestselling poetry collection Good Grief… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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18. Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn, #1)

By: Sophie Escabasse

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

There's a new witch in town! Life in Brooklyn takes a strange turn when Effie discovers MAGIC runs … read more

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"The feelings you've experienced through her music are yours, pumpkin. It's okay to like her music and not like her, and it's okay to not like her music after meeting her. These are your feelings and …"

-Sophie Escabasse, Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn, #1)

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19. You Better Be Lightning

By: Andrea Gibson

4.63

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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20. To Make Monsters Out of Girls (Things that Haunt, #1)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.73

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

"What happens when the man of your dreams turns out to be a nightmare with sharp teeth and claws?"W… read more

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  • nonfiction
"darling, you are worthy."

-Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls (Things that Haunt, #1)

"yet here i am. i stand before you the woman who managed to become everything you said she could never one day be."

-Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls (Things that Haunt, #1)

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21. You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity

By: Jamie Lee Finch

4.06

Format: 82 pages, ebook

Rooted in her experiences growing up in an Evangelical Christian family, Jamie Lee Finch’s “You Are… read more

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Cover of Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life by Morgan Harper Nichols

22. Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

4.08

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

When you breathe in all the grace available to you and release everything that is outside of your c… read more

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"What if practicing peace is slowing down and realizing there’s more to see?"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

"Peace is an invitation in daily life to breathe deep, right here, in the uncertainty."

-Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

"We don’t have to understand everything before we hold both shadow and light. We don’t have to eliminate every unknown before we take action. We don’t have to get rid of the darkness to see where the …"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

"Peace is the river in the desert, not on the other side of it. Today I am still seeking that river. And not just a river far off somewhere that I must arrive at, but the river that runs wild and free…"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

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23. Goddess of the River

By: Vaishnavi Patel

3.86

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from… read more

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24. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Out of Focus: My Story of Sexuality, Shame, and Toxic Evangelicalism

By: Amber Cantorna-Wylde

4.41

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

When a mass shooter killed five people in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, grieving people g… read more

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26. Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice

4.25

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Native is about identity, soul-searching, and being on the never-ending journey of finding ourselve… read more

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27. Gay the Pray Away

By: Natalie Naudus

4.46

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

Valerie Danners is in a cult. She just doesn't know it yet. When she finds a queer book at the libr… read more

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  • religion
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28. You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead (Morgan Harper Nichols Poetry Collection)

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

4.18

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes it's difficult to take that first step into your future and embrace the unknown. This ill… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. The Myth of the American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power

By: D.L. Mayfield

4.41

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are… read more

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  • spirituality
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30. jaded: a poetic reckoning with white evangelical christian indoctrination

By: Marla Taviano

4.76

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

"An unrelenting love letter to the deconstructing exvangelical in all of us, jaded kicks your ass i… read more

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  • spirituality
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31. She followed the moon back to herself

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

the tenth poetry collection from amanda lovelace deviates from the well-worn path of fairy tales & … read more

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14 must-read religion books like jaded: a poetic reckoning with white evangelical christian indoctrination by Marla Taviano

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Wholehearted Faith

Rachel Held Evans

4.42

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

Rob Bell

3.66

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The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

Shannon Harris

3.77

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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon

4.21

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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Ross Gay

4.25

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Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

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Yung Pueblo

4.29

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Billy Chapata

4.14

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