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Allender, Dan and Tremper Longman III. Bold Love.

Beaujon, Andrew. Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock.

Bessey, Sarah. Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith.

Bolz-Weber, Nadia. Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People.

Bolz-Weber, Nadia. Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint.

Boyle, Father Gregory. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion.

Daly, Michael. The Book of Mychal: The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge.

Doyle, Brian. The Book of Uncommon Prayer: 100 Celebrations of the Miracle and Muddle of the Ordinary.

Evans, Rachel Held. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church.

Francis, Pope. A Big Heart Open to God: A Conversation with Pope Francis

Gibbs, Chad. Jesus Without Borders: What Planes, Trains, and Rickshaws Taught Me About Jesus.

Goff, Bob. Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World.

Grant, Jennifer and Cathleen Falsani, ed. Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good Book by the Skeptical, the Faithful, and a Few Scoundrels.

Haines, Amber. Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home.

Haines, Seth. Coming Clean: A Story of Faith.

Hatmaker, Jen. For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards. (Full disclosure: I was on the launch team for this & Jen’s a friend. But this book changed my life and I can’t not recommend it.)

Hurley, Kate. Cupid Is a Procrastinator: Making Sense of the Unexpected Single Life.

Jacobs, A.J. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.

Kelly, Sean. Saints Preserve Us!: Everything You Need to Know About Every Saint You’ll Ever Need.

Lamott, Anne. Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.

Lamott, Anne. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith.

Lee, Justin. Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate.

Lewis, C.S. The Four Loves.

Manning, Brennan. The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out.

Martin, James. My Life with the Saints.

Mayernick, Suzanne. One: Impossible Starts Here.

McKnight, Scot. The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible.

McLaren, Brian. A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed Yet Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian.

Merton, Thomas. The Seven Storey Mountain.

Miller, Donald. Blue Like Jazz.

Miller, Donald. Searching for God Knows What.

Norris, Kathleen. Acedia and Me: Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life.

Tchvidjian, Tullian. One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World.

Teresa, Mother. Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta.

Terkeust, Lysa. Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions.

Tippetts, Kara. The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Middle of Life’s Hard.

Voskamp, Ann. One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are.

Wangerin Jr., Walter. As for Me and My House: Crafting Your Marriage to Last.

Winner, Lauren. Girl Meets God.

Winner, Lauren. Wearing God: An Exercise in Enriching Our Spiritual Imagination.

Yancey, Philip. Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church.

Yancey, Philip. The Jesus I Never Knew.

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