21 must-read nonfiction books like A Faith of Many Rooms: Inhabiting a More Spacious Christianity by Debie Thomas

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A Faith of Many Rooms: Inhabiting a More Spacious Christianity

By: Debie Thomas

4.56

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

When your faith begins to feel too small, too confining, you could choose to leave it. But what if …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Faith of Many Rooms: Inhabiting a More Spacious Christianity by Debie Thomas , here is a list of 21 books like this:

1. When Bad Things Happen to Good People

By: Harold S. Kushner

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Harold Kushner's three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he woul… read more

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2. In the Shadow of the Banyan

By: Vaddey Ratner

3.81

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father r… read more

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3. 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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4. Half an Inch of Water

By: Percival Everett

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

A new collection of stories set in the West from "one of the most gifted and versatile of contempor… read more

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5. UnClobber

By: Glennon Doyle Melton , None

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

Churches in America are experiencing an unprecedented fracturing due to their belief and attitude t… 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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  • faith
  • 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. The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

By: Sharon Brous

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community bas… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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8. 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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  • nonfiction
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"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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9. The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Jennifer Chiaverini’s beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Cr… read more

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10. The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross

By: Brian Zahnd

4.53

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The cross is the heart of Scripture Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and pro… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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11. 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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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"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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12. 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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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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13. Devout: A Memoir of Doubt

By: Anna Gazmarian

3.63

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical f… read more

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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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14. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

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15. Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next

By: Bradley Onishi

4.33

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Watching the eerie footage of the January 6 insurrection, Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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16. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

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"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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17. 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
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"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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18. Reading Genesis

By: Marilynne Robinson

4.10

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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19. An Irish Country Yuletide (Irish Country #16)

By: Patrick Taylor

3.97

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

A charming Christmas entry in Patrick Taylor's beloved internationally bestselling Irish Country se… read more

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20. Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie

By: Jackie Lau

3.55

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

A charming rom-com about a young woman’s desperate attempts to fend off her meddling mother…only to… read more

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"They have flavors like Hong Kong milk tea and ube and Vietnamese coffee. Spiced persimmon. Mango lassi. Jasmine tea." There's something sexy about Mark listing off gelato flavors for me."

-Jackie Lau, Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie

"At the liquor store, we select a bottle of wine based on one very important factor: price. The cheaper the better. Then we head home, change into comfier clothes, pull out our plastic wineglasses (ve…"

-Jackie Lau, Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie

"Holy shit! Fifteen bucks for a milkshake!" I exclaim, looking at the poster for the special of the month: cherry pie milkshake. I, personally, consider fifteen bucks to be too much for a drink that d…"

-Jackie Lau, Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie

"Sunday morning, I make a few posts on social media, something I'm supposed to do as an author to promote myself, but I'm rather unconvinced of the efficacy of posting things like cherry pie milkshake…"

-Jackie Lau, Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie

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21. The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings

By: Sy Montgomery

4.14

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Hummingbirds fascinate people around the world. The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are cap… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy by Jim Wallis

22. The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy

By: Jim Wallis

4.20

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

A major new work by the New York Times bestselling author, arguing that the answer to bad religion … read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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23. 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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  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins by Emmy Kegler

24. One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins

By: Emmy Kegler

4.44

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The stories of Scripture are for everyone. No exceptions. Emmy Kegler has a complicated relation… read more

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  • faith
  • religion
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  • spirituality
Cover of The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors by Tony Jones

25. 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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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture by Dan Kimball

26. How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

By: Dan Kimball

4.20

Format: None pages, Audio CD

When Dan Kimball first sat down to meet with a student who was disillusioned by Christianity, he wa… read more

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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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27. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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28. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future

By: Robert P. Jones

4.55

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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29. A Faith of Many Rooms: Inhabiting a More Spacious Christianity

By: Debie Thomas

4.56

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

When your faith begins to feel too small, too confining, you could choose to leave it. But what if … read more

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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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30. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

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31. American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond

By: Jeremy Dauber

3.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a sweeping and entertaining na… read more

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  • nonfiction

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Rachel Held Evans

4.42

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The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

Sharon Brous

4.54

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The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross

Brian Zahnd

4.53

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

Beth Allison Barr

4.40

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Nancy Thayer

3.64

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Vernon Coleman

4.33

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Cressida McLaughlin

4.09

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