📝 Personal Essay

Collections and craft guides celebrating the intimate, digressive art of writing from lived experience. These books honor the personal essay as a form where vulnerability meets precision on the page.

The Book of (More) Delights

by Ross Gay • 2023

A year of looking closely: when joy and sorrow share the same sentence.

4.25

3k+

📝 Lyric Essays 👀 Practice Of Noticing 🙏 Everyday Devotion

The Book of (More) Delights 91%

A year of looking closely: when joy and sorrow share the same sentence.

by Ross Gay 2023

4.25

3k+ ratings

📝 Lyric Essays 👀 Practice Of Noticing 🙏 Everyday Devotion

Uh-oh

by Robert Fulghum • 1991

Life's philosophy lives inside your refrigerator door and in the first sound you ever made.

4.13

3k+

🧠 Everyday Philosophy ✍️ Personal Essays ✨ Finding Wonder

Uh-oh 90%

Life's philosophy lives inside your refrigerator door and in the first sound you ever made.

by Robert Fulghum 1991

4.13

3k+ ratings

🧠 Everyday Philosophy ✍️ Personal Essays ✨ Finding Wonder

It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

by Robert Fulghum • 1989

Life is a burning bed, a child's paper sack, and a mirror fragment reflecting light.

4.10

6k+

✍️ Personal Essays 😂 Observational Humor 🌟 Everyday Wonder

It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It Summary

It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It 90%

Life is a burning bed, a child's paper sack, and a mirror fragment reflecting light.

by Robert Fulghum 1989

4.10

6k+ ratings

✍️ Personal Essays 😂 Observational Humor 🌟 Everyday Wonder

The Faraway Nearby

by Rebecca Solnit • 2013

The frontier between a life and the story told about it is where everything important happens.

4.20

8k+

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Personal Essays 🕸️ Interconnectedness

The Faraway Nearby 90%

The frontier between a life and the story told about it is where everything important happens.

by Rebecca Solnit 2013

4.20

8k+ ratings

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Personal Essays 🕸️ Interconnectedness

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps

by Alan Gelb • 2013

A narrative arc, not a list of honors: the story structure that gets you in.

3.66

154

📝 College Admissions 📄 Application Essays 📖 Narrative Writing

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps Summary

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps 90%

A narrative arc, not a list of honors: the story structure that gets you in.

by Alan Gelb 2013

3.66

154 ratings

📝 College Admissions 📄 Application Essays 📖 Narrative Writing

The Anthropocene Reviewed

by John Green • 2021

From sycamores to antibiotics: a novelist rates the human age, one five-star review at a time.

4.35

182k+

📝 Personal Essays 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌍 The Anthropocene

The Anthropocene Reviewed 90%

From sycamores to antibiotics: a novelist rates the human age, one five-star review at a time.

by John Green 2021

4.35

182k+ ratings

📝 Personal Essays 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌍 The Anthropocene

50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, Fourth Edition

by Harvard Crimson • 2005

Get inside the admissions reader's head. Fifty real Harvard essays, dissected line by line.

3.89

243

🎓 College Admissions ✍️ Application Essays 📖 Personal Storytelling

50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, Fourth Edition Summary

50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, Fourth Edition 90%

Get inside the admissions reader's head. Fifty real Harvard essays, dissected line by line.

by Harvard Crimson 2005

3.89

243 ratings

🎓 College Admissions ✍️ Application Essays 📖 Personal Storytelling

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship

by The Oprah Magazine O • 2016

Love, friendship, and family remade: intimate stories about the connections that shape a life.

3.63

242

🫂 Female Friendship 🏠 Chosen Family 💔 Love And Loss

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship Summary

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship 90%

Love, friendship, and family remade: intimate stories about the connections that shape a life.

by The Oprah Magazine O 2016

3.63

242 ratings

🫂 Female Friendship 🏠 Chosen Family 💔 Love And Loss

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

by Robert Fulghum • 1986

Life's most elusive wisdom is hidden in the rules you mastered by age five.

4.00

25k+

📦 Everyday Wisdom 🤝 Common Decency 🌟 Childlike Wonder

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Summary

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten 90%

Life's most elusive wisdom is hidden in the rules you mastered by age five.

by Robert Fulghum 1986

4.00

25k+ ratings

📦 Everyday Wisdom 🤝 Common Decency 🌟 Childlike Wonder

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

by Rebecca Solnit • 2005

Getting lost is where transformation begins. The unknown is the destination, not the detour.

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21k+

🖋️ Lyric Essay 🌿 Nature Essays 🗺️ Psychogeography

A Field Guide to Getting Lost 90%

Getting lost is where transformation begins. The unknown is the destination, not the detour.

by Rebecca Solnit 2005

3.90

21k+ ratings

🖋️ Lyric Essay 🌿 Nature Essays 🗺️ Psychogeography

Best American Essays 2018

by Hilton Als • 2018

The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.

3.53

350

✍️ The Essay Form 🖋️ Personal Essays 💬 Cultural Criticism

Best American Essays 2018 90%

The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.

by Hilton Als 2018

3.53

350 ratings

✍️ The Essay Form 🖋️ Personal Essays 💬 Cultural Criticism

The Situation and the Story

by Vivian Gornick • 2001

Memoir is not the events. It is the honest self-interrogation that makes them finally matter.

3.93

3k+

🧾 Literary Memoir 🛠️ Memoir Craft 🎭 Narrative Persona

The Situation and the Story 90%

Memoir is not the events. It is the honest self-interrogation that makes them finally matter.

by Vivian Gornick 2001

3.93

3k+ ratings

🧾 Literary Memoir 🛠️ Memoir Craft 🎭 Narrative Persona

One in a Millennial

by Kate Kennedy • 2024

The MySpace top eight was a leaderboard, not a friend list, and she played to win.

3.70

21k+

💿 Millennial Memoir 📺 Pop Culture Criticism 🧠 Mental Health Memoir

One in a Millennial 89%

The MySpace top eight was a leaderboard, not a friend list, and she played to win.

by Kate Kennedy 2024

3.70

21k+ ratings

💿 Millennial Memoir 📺 Pop Culture Criticism 🧠 Mental Health Memoir

Aftermath

by Rachel Cusk • 2012

A friend answers a late-night call, refuses to let her cry alone. A divorce memoir begins.

3.67

4k+

💔 Divorce Memoirs 👩‍👧 Motherhood Memoirs 📝 Personal Essays

Aftermath 89%

A friend answers a late-night call, refuses to let her cry alone. A divorce memoir begins.

by Rachel Cusk 2012

3.67

4k+ ratings

💔 Divorce Memoirs 👩‍👧 Motherhood Memoirs 📝 Personal Essays

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

by Michele Filgate • 2019

Fifteen writers give voice to what they could never tell the woman who raised them.

3.74

19k+

📝 Personal Essays 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🗝️ Family Secrets

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About Summary

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About 89%

Fifteen writers give voice to what they could never tell the woman who raised them.

by Michele Filgate 2019

3.74

19k+ ratings

📝 Personal Essays 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🗝️ Family Secrets

What On Earth Have I Done?

by Robert Fulghum • 1997

Life's biggest questions, answered by lemonade stands, neighbors, and a village in Crete.

4.09

1k+

🧘 Everyday Philosophy 🌼 Ordinary Joys 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

What On Earth Have I Done? 89%

Life's biggest questions, answered by lemonade stands, neighbors, and a village in Crete.

by Robert Fulghum 1997

4.09

1k+ ratings

🧘 Everyday Philosophy 🌼 Ordinary Joys 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

Notes to Self

by Emilie Pine • 2018

She was good at going hungry. It was the one thing she could control.

4.10

21k+

📖 Confessional Memoir ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🍽️ Eating Disorders

Notes to Self 89%

She was good at going hungry. It was the one thing she could control.

by Emilie Pine 2018

4.10

21k+ ratings

📖 Confessional Memoir ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🍽️ Eating Disorders

Mobile Home

by Megan Harlan • 2020

Seventeen homes on four continents before age 17: a memoir that excavates the meaning of home.

4.60

184

🏕️ Third Culture Kids 🧳 Nomadic Childhood 🏛️ Landscape And Memory

Mobile Home 89%

Seventeen homes on four continents before age 17: a memoir that excavates the meaning of home.

by Megan Harlan 2020

4.60

184 ratings

🏕️ Third Culture Kids 🧳 Nomadic Childhood 🏛️ Landscape And Memory

This Is Me Letting You Go

by Heidi Priebe • 2016

Perfect timing is a convenient lie: how to let go, forgive, and bet on yourself.

4.03

13k+

💔 Heartbreak Recovery 🧩 Self-Acceptance 🚪 Relationship Endings

This Is Me Letting You Go 89%

Perfect timing is a convenient lie: how to let go, forgive, and bet on yourself.

by Heidi Priebe 2016

4.03

13k+ ratings

💔 Heartbreak Recovery 🧩 Self-Acceptance 🚪 Relationship Endings

Inciting Joy

by Ross Gay • 2022

Why skateboarders share everything: a poet's case for joy in grief and refusal to be useful.

4.13

6k+

🎁 Gift Economies 🐢 Slowing Down 💗 Vulnerability

Inciting Joy 89%

Why skateboarders share everything: a poet's case for joy in grief and refusal to be useful.

by Ross Gay 2022

4.13

6k+ ratings

🎁 Gift Economies 🐢 Slowing Down 💗 Vulnerability

Body Work

by Melissa Febos • 2022

Personal writing threatens power. The stigma that silences women and queer writers is by design.

4.22

6k+

🖋️ Memoir Writing 🩹 Writing Therapy ✍️ Feminist Criticism

Body Work 89%

Personal writing threatens power. The stigma that silences women and queer writers is by design.

by Melissa Febos 2022

4.22

6k+ ratings

🖋️ Memoir Writing 🩹 Writing Therapy ✍️ Feminist Criticism

These Precious Days

by Ann Patchett • 2021

Tom Hanks's assistant visited for a weekend. Cancer and a pandemic kept her there for months.

4.42

48k+

📝 Personal Essays ⏳ Facing Mortality 🎨 Creative Healing

These Precious Days 89%

Tom Hanks's assistant visited for a weekend. Cancer and a pandemic kept her there for months.

by Ann Patchett 2021

4.42

48k+ ratings

📝 Personal Essays ⏳ Facing Mortality 🎨 Creative Healing

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

by Chuck Klosterman • 2003

Your Saved by the Bell reruns taught you more about love than Jane Austen.

3.74

73k+

🎭 Pop Culture Criticism ✍️ Personal Essays 🎵 Music Criticism

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs 89%

Your Saved by the Bell reruns taught you more about love than Jane Austen.

by Chuck Klosterman 2003

3.74

73k+ ratings

🎭 Pop Culture Criticism ✍️ Personal Essays 🎵 Music Criticism

Palm Sunday

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 1981

Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.

3.78

7k+

🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Essay Collections ✍️ Writers On Writing

Palm Sunday 89%

Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981

3.78

7k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Essay Collections ✍️ Writers On Writing

Tough Titties

by Laura Belgray • 2023

Failed at careers, therapy, and love. Still ended up happy. The case against self-improvement.

3.50

2k+

😂 Anti-Self-Help ✍️ Humorous Memoir 👙 Body Image

Tough Titties 89%

Failed at careers, therapy, and love. Still ended up happy. The case against self-improvement.

by Laura Belgray 2023

3.50

2k+ ratings

😂 Anti-Self-Help ✍️ Humorous Memoir 👙 Body Image

Magical Thinking

by Augusten Burroughs • 2004

Tang commercials, an undertaker boyfriend, steroids, and the deep conviction his mind runs reality.

3.96

57k+

📝 Personal Essays 🖤 Dark Humor 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Memoir

Magical Thinking 89%

Tang commercials, an undertaker boyfriend, steroids, and the deep conviction his mind runs reality.

by Augusten Burroughs 2004

3.96

57k+ ratings

📝 Personal Essays 🖤 Dark Humor 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Memoir

Manhood for Amateurs

by Michael Chabon • 2009

Fatherhood is the one job where failing every day means you're probably doing it right.

3.73

8k+

🧔 Modern Masculinity 👨‍👧 Fatherhood 📖 Literary Memoir

Manhood for Amateurs 89%

Fatherhood is the one job where failing every day means you're probably doing it right.

by Michael Chabon 2009

3.73

8k+ ratings

🧔 Modern Masculinity 👨‍👧 Fatherhood 📖 Literary Memoir

Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It

by Elizabeth Gilbert • 2016

One memoir, a million life reinventions. The readers who followed its map tell what they discovered.

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3k+

🌍 Transformative Travel ✍️ Personal Essays 🔄 Life Reinvention

Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It 89%

One memoir, a million life reinventions. The readers who followed its map tell what they discovered.

by Elizabeth Gilbert 2016

3.53

3k+ ratings

🌍 Transformative Travel ✍️ Personal Essays 🔄 Life Reinvention

This I Believe

by Dan Gediman • 2011

When his daughter called him a geek and a loser, one father heard something else entirely.

4.14

👨‍👧 Fatherhood 📖 Parenting Memoirs 🕊️ Family Forgiveness

This I Believe 89%

When his daughter called him a geek and a loser, one father heard something else entirely.

by Dan Gediman 2011

4.14

51 ratings

👨‍👧 Fatherhood 📖 Parenting Memoirs 🕊️ Family Forgiveness

Not Quite What I Was Planning

by Larry Smith • 2008

Six words: thousands wrote their life story in six words. The results are hilarious and devastating.

3.89

3k+

📝 Flash Memoir ✍️ Writing Prompts 🔗 Creative Constraints

Not Quite What I Was Planning 89%

Six words: thousands wrote their life story in six words. The results are hilarious and devastating.

by Larry Smith 2008

3.89

3k+ ratings

📝 Flash Memoir ✍️ Writing Prompts 🔗 Creative Constraints

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

by David Sedaris • 2004

His mother banned the word 'weenie.' She was only the first of many baffling rule-givers.

4.12

290k+

📝 Essay Collections 😂 Humor Memoirs 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Stories

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Summary

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 89%

His mother banned the word 'weenie.' She was only the first of many baffling rule-givers.

by David Sedaris 2004

4.12

290k+ ratings

📝 Essay Collections 😂 Humor Memoirs 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Stories

Books vs. Cigarettes

by George Orwell • 1946

A dusty bookshop, a public ward, a totalitarian state: Orwell's unsparing truth in each.

3.83

9k+

📚 Book Culture ✍️ Literary Criticism 📖 Bookshop Memoirs

Books vs. Cigarettes 89%

A dusty bookshop, a public ward, a totalitarian state: Orwell's unsparing truth in each.

by George Orwell 1946

3.83

9k+ ratings

📚 Book Culture ✍️ Literary Criticism 📖 Bookshop Memoirs

Somehow

by Anne Lamott • 2024

Love isn't soft. It's the floor under everything, the mending force in the rubble of life.

3.90

6k+

🙏 Spiritual Memoir ✝️ Essays On Faith 🌈 Progressive Christianity

Somehow 89%

Love isn't soft. It's the floor under everything, the mending force in the rubble of life.

by Anne Lamott 2024

3.90

6k+ ratings

🙏 Spiritual Memoir ✝️ Essays On Faith 🌈 Progressive Christianity

Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault

by Cathy Guisewite • 2019

Aging parents, adult kids, and a swimsuit dressing room: 50 dispatches from midlife.

3.56

2k+

🧾 Personal Essays 📗 Midlife Memoir 🪞 Body Image

Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault Summary

Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault 89%

Aging parents, adult kids, and a swimsuit dressing room: 50 dispatches from midlife.

by Cathy Guisewite 2019

3.56

2k+ ratings

🧾 Personal Essays 📗 Midlife Memoir 🪞 Body Image

What If This Were Enough?

by Heather Havrilesky • 2018

Enforced cheer imprisons you. The bars are Instagram and Whole Foods; the key is giving up.

3.64

3k+

🎭 Cultural Criticism ✍️ Essay Collections 🚫 Anti-Self-Help

What If This Were Enough? 89%

Enforced cheer imprisons you. The bars are Instagram and Whole Foods; the key is giving up.

by Heather Havrilesky 2018

3.64

3k+ ratings

🎭 Cultural Criticism ✍️ Essay Collections 🚫 Anti-Self-Help

I'm Judging You

by Luvvie Ajayi • 2016

Common sense is dead. A manual for navigating a world of selfish friends and clout chasers.

3.69

14k+

🤝 Social Etiquette 📝 Cultural Criticism ✊ Intersectional Feminism

I'm Judging You 89%

Common sense is dead. A manual for navigating a world of selfish friends and clout chasers.

by Luvvie Ajayi 2016

3.69

14k+ ratings

🤝 Social Etiquette 📝 Cultural Criticism ✊ Intersectional Feminism

The Complete Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson • 1844

Trust your private thought over all scripture: the source that made the world put it there.

4.23

3k+

🏛️ American Transcendentalism 🗽 Radical Individualism ✨ Inner Conviction

The Complete Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Summary

The Complete Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson 89%

Trust your private thought over all scripture: the source that made the world put it there.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1844

4.23

3k+ ratings

🏛️ American Transcendentalism 🗽 Radical Individualism ✨ Inner Conviction

So Sad Today

by Melissa Broder • 2016

A vomit fetish, an open marriage, and the internet addiction that makes it all bearable.

3.80

18k+

📖 Confessional Memoir 🧠 Mental Illness Memoir 💻 Internet Addiction

So Sad Today 89%

A vomit fetish, an open marriage, and the internet addiction that makes it all bearable.

by Melissa Broder 2016

3.80

18k+ ratings

📖 Confessional Memoir 🧠 Mental Illness Memoir 💻 Internet Addiction

Imagine a City

by Mark Vanhoenacker • 2022

A pilot's repeated city layovers trace one hidden route: back to the small hometown he fled.

3.65

422

🏙️ Urban Travel Writing ✈️ Aviation Memoirs 🧭 Sense Of Place

Imagine a City 89%

A pilot's repeated city layovers trace one hidden route: back to the small hometown he fled.

by Mark Vanhoenacker 2022

3.65

422 ratings

🏙️ Urban Travel Writing ✈️ Aviation Memoirs 🧭 Sense Of Place

The Empathy Exams

by Leslie Jamison • 2014

Empathy isn't a feeling but a practice, and these essays examine what it demands of us.

3.67

16k+

📝 Personal Essays 📰 Literary Journalism 🩺 Medical Humanities

The Empathy Exams 89%

Empathy isn't a feeling but a practice, and these essays examine what it demands of us.

by Leslie Jamison 2014

3.67

16k+ ratings

📝 Personal Essays 📰 Literary Journalism 🩺 Medical Humanities

Good Prose

by Tracy Kidder • 2013

Everything a Pulitzer winner and his editor know about writing nonfiction that people finish.

3.92

1k+

📖 Narrative Nonfiction ✍️ Writing Craft 🖋️ Prose Style

Good Prose 89%

Everything a Pulitzer winner and his editor know about writing nonfiction that people finish.

by Tracy Kidder 2013

3.92

1k+ ratings

📖 Narrative Nonfiction ✍️ Writing Craft 🖋️ Prose Style

The Wisdom of the Heart

by Henry Miller • 1941

Modern men are half-alive and call it progress. The cure starts when the thinking stops.

4.03

663

📖 Literary Philosophy 📚 Essay Collections 🎨 Creative Process

The Wisdom of the Heart 89%

Modern men are half-alive and call it progress. The cure starts when the thinking stops.

by Henry Miller 1941

4.03

663 ratings

📖 Literary Philosophy 📚 Essay Collections 🎨 Creative Process

A Life in Light

by Mary Pipher • 2022

How to find sustaining light when everything falls apart, from a psychologist who lived through it.

4.06

1k+

🧘 Contemplative Memoir 👵 Mindful Aging 🌿 Nature And Healing

A Life in Light 89%

How to find sustaining light when everything falls apart, from a psychologist who lived through it.

by Mary Pipher 2022

4.06

1k+ ratings

🧘 Contemplative Memoir 👵 Mindful Aging 🌿 Nature And Healing

Missing Out

by Adam Phillips • 2012

Your regrets are not ghosts; they are the hidden architecture of your personality.

3.47

3k+

📝 Psychoanalytic Essays 📚 Literary Psychology 💭 Regret And Identity

Missing Out 89%

Your regrets are not ghosts; they are the hidden architecture of your personality.

by Adam Phillips 2012

3.47

3k+ ratings

📝 Psychoanalytic Essays 📚 Literary Psychology 💭 Regret And Identity

A Circle of Quiet

by Madeleine L'Engle • 1971

A farmhouse, a brook, an hour of silence: what a writer found when she finally stopped.

4.21

7k+

🖊️ Writing Life 🙏 Contemplative Faith 🎨 Creative Process

A Circle of Quiet 89%

A farmhouse, a brook, an hour of silence: what a writer found when she finally stopped.

by Madeleine L'Engle 1971

4.21

7k+ ratings

🖊️ Writing Life 🙏 Contemplative Faith 🎨 Creative Process

The Book of Alchemy

by Suleika Jaouad • 2025

Born in a cancer ward: a journaling practice that turns pain into creative fuel.

4.27

5k+

📓 Journaling Practice 🎨 Creative Recovery 🏥 Illness And Creativity

The Book of Alchemy 88%

Born in a cancer ward: a journaling practice that turns pain into creative fuel.

by Suleika Jaouad 2025

4.27

5k+ ratings

📓 Journaling Practice 🎨 Creative Recovery 🏥 Illness And Creativity

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse

by Alida Nugent • 2013

A degree, a childhood bedroom, a strip poker party: the twenties are mostly improvising.

3.38

4k+

🌀 Quarterlife Crisis 🎓 Post-College Life 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse 88%

A degree, a childhood bedroom, a strip poker party: the twenties are mostly improvising.

by Alida Nugent 2013

3.38

4k+ ratings

🌀 Quarterlife Crisis 🎓 Post-College Life 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor

Wild Comfort

by Kathleen Dean Moore • 2010

The natural world holds no cure for grief, only a rhythm vast enough to carry it.

4.12

753

🖋️ Nature Writing 🌿 Environmental Essays 🍂 Grief And Nature

Wild Comfort 88%

The natural world holds no cure for grief, only a rhythm vast enough to carry it.

by Kathleen Dean Moore 2010

4.12

753 ratings

🖋️ Nature Writing 🌿 Environmental Essays 🍂 Grief And Nature

Traveling Mercies

by Anne Lamott • 1999

Faith for people who swear, drink too much, and can't stomach Sunday school answers.

4.14

49k+

✝️ Spiritual Memoir 💔 Messy Spirituality 🪜 Twelve Step Recovery

Traveling Mercies 88%

Faith for people who swear, drink too much, and can't stomach Sunday school answers.

by Anne Lamott 1999

4.14

49k+ ratings

✝️ Spiritual Memoir 💔 Messy Spirituality 🪜 Twelve Step Recovery

When Women Were Birds

by Terry Tempest Williams • 2012

Her mother's journals arrived after her death: every page blank. The silence became the gift.

4.21

10k+

📖 Lyric Essay 🗣️ Finding Voice 🤫 Women'S Silence

When Women Were Birds 88%

Her mother's journals arrived after her death: every page blank. The silence became the gift.

by Terry Tempest Williams 2012

4.21

10k+ ratings

📖 Lyric Essay 🗣️ Finding Voice 🤫 Women'S Silence

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