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Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

10 best books like Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (Kathleen Norris): House of Stone, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Women of the Copper Country, Everything Inside, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, A Circle of Quiet, Blue Highways, The Irrational Season

House of Stone
AuthorNovuyo Rosa Tshuma
ISBN0393635422
In the chronic turmoil of Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, Abednego and Agnes Mlambo’s teenage son, Bukhosi, has gone missing. Erudite, enigmatic Zamani, their lodger, seems to be their last, best hope for finding him. In his eagerness to help, Zamani is almost a part of the family— but almost isn’t...
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
AuthorAnne Lamott
ISBN1400079098
The most honest, wildly enjoyable book written about motherhood is surely Anne Lamott's account of her son Sam's first year. A gifted writer and teacher, Lamott (Crooked Little Heart) is a single mother and ex-alcoholic with a pleasingly warped social circle and a remarkably tolerant religion to...
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
AuthorAnnie Dillard
ISBN0072434171
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch...
The Women of the Copper Country
AuthorMary Doria Russell
ISBN1982109580

In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their...
Everything Inside
AuthorEdwidge Danticat
ISBN0525521275
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.

Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean...
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
AuthorAnne Lamott
ISBN0385496095
Despite--or because of--her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier...
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
ISBN0060872632
By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the same red vestments...
A Circle of Quiet
AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
ISBN0062545035
NOW AVAILABLE FOR KINDLE / E-BOOK

I’d be surprised if the majority of readers have not read “A Wrinkle in Time.” It is undoubtedly her most loved book, although the road to a publisher was a rather long journey. Nevertheless, she did, and the rest is her story, part of which is contained...
Blue Highways
AuthorWilliam Least Heat-Moon
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at...
The Irrational Season
AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
ISBN0866839461
This is the third Crosswick Journal. It is a walk of thoughts through the church year. It some ways it is a departure from the first two, more abstract, not quite as personal, but in other ways it is very, very personal. The book is scattered with Madeleine's poems. At times reading someone's own poetry...
The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery
AuthorHenri J.M. Nouwen
ISBN0232521433
The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery is Henri Nouwen's journal of his seven-month stay in the Abbey of the Genesee in upstate New York. His reflections on daily life with the Trappists are funny, wise, and often profound--resembling Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk, but a bit less...
Lost For Words
AuthorJohn Humphrys
ISBN0340836598
Today programme presenter's Top Ten bestselling cry for better English in paperback for summer. From empty cliche to meaningless jargon, dangling participle to sentences without verbs, the English language is reeling. It is under attack from all sides. Politicians dupe us with deliberately evasive...
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
AuthorNisi Shawl
ISBN1781085781
Anthology of contemporary stories by emerging and seasoned writers of many races

There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” proclaimed Octavia E Butler.

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many...
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
AuthorNadia Bolz-Weber
ISBN1455527084
Foul-mouthed and heavily tattooed, former standup comic-turned-Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber weaves hilarious rants and stunning theological insight into her personal narrative of a flawed, beautiful, and unlikely life of faith.

Bizarre, rich, and remarkable, PASTRIX turns spiritual...
Mudhouse Sabbath
AuthorLauren F. Winner
ISBN1557253447
In her groundbreaking book, Girl Meets God, Lauren Winner described her path from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity. Now, with characteristic wit, intellectual sharpness, and passion for authenticity, Winner illuminates eleven spiritual lessons that Judaism taught her. By reflecting deeply...
Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God
AuthorSarah Bessey
ISBN1501155466
In her most personal book yet, popular speaker and bestselling author Sarah Bessey invites us into her long—and sometimes miraculous—road to recovery after a terrible accident and shares how it changed everything she believed about God.

Sarah Bessey was in her sweet spot: a popular...
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII.
AuthorSarah Helm
Once rumored to have been the inspiration for Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny, Vera Atkins climbed her way to the top in the Special Operations Executive, or SOE: Britain's secret service created to help build up, organize, and arm the resistance in the Nazi-occupied countries. Throughout the war,...
The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
AuthorFrederick Buechner
ISBN0060611839
This was insightful, uncommonly honest, and beautiful. I couldn't put the book down, but had to, twice, before finishing the mere 112 pages (3 chapters called "Once Below a Time, Once Upon a Time, and Beyond Time").
I will not share any of the story, so as not to ruin any of it for future readers; however,...
Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening
AuthorDiana Butler Bass
ISBN0062003739
Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity’s leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new “spiritual but not religious” movement. Using evidence from the latest national polls and from her own cutting-edge research, Bass, the visionary...
Holy the Firm
AuthorAnnie Dillard
ISBN0060915439
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth...
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why
AuthorPhyllis A. Tickle
ISBN1596445750
From the church's birth to the reign of St. Gregory the great, to the Great Schism and through the Reformation, Phyllis Tickle notes that every 500 years the church has been rocked by massive transitions. Remarkably enough, Tickle suggests to us that we live in such a time right now. The Great Emergence...
The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way
AuthorEugene H. Peterson
The Jesus Way part of Eugene Peterson's meaty "conversations" on spiritual theology A way of sacrifice. A way of failure. A way on the margins. A way of holiness. In The Jesus Way Eugene Peterson shows how the ways of those who came before Christ Abraham, Moses, David, Elijah, and Isaiah revealed and prepared...
So Brave, Young and Handsome
AuthorLeif Enger
ISBN0871139855
A stunning successor to his best selling novel Peace Like a River, Leif Enger's new work is a rugged and nimble story about an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him.
In 1915 Minnesota, novelist Monte Becket has lost...
Becoming Who You Are: Insights on the True Self from Thomas Merton and Other Saints
AuthorJames Martin
By meditating on personal examples from the author's life, as well as reflecting on the inspirational life and writings of Thomas Merton, stories from the Gospels, as well as the lives of other holy men and women (among them, Henri Nouwen, Therese of Lisieux and Pope John XXIII) the reader will see how...
Telling Secrets
AuthorFrederick Buechner
ISBN0060609362
I love Buechner's work, period. While reading his books, I'm frequently struck with an odd sense of familiarity, realizing only after considering that he just essentially said (in a much more eloquent manner) something that I've been wrestling with, thinking about, praying through, and more. He's...
In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir
AuthorPaul Quenon
ISBN1594717591
Winner of two 2019 Catholic Press Association Awards: Memoir (First Place) and Cover Design (Second Place).


Monastic life and its counter-cultural wisdom come alive in the stories and lessons of Br. Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O., during his more than five decades as a Trappist at the Abbey of...
An American Childhood
AuthorAnnie Dillard
Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't snap back; it lay dead across her knuckle in a yellowish ridge." She remembers the compulsion to spend a whole...
The Silent Cry
AuthorAnne Perry
ISBN0804117934
Deep in London's filthy, dangerous slums, Victorians transacted their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man could procure whatever he wanted, but it happened now and then that the price he paid was his life. Now, in sunless Water Lane, respected solicitor Leighton Duff lies dead, kicked...
Rules for Aging: Resist Normal Impulses, Live Longer, Attain Perfection
AuthorRoger Rosenblatt
ISBN0151006598
Acclaimed and beloved prize-winning essayist Roger Rosenblatt has commented on most of the trends and events of our time. His columns in Time magazine and his commentaries on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer have made him a household word and a trusted friend of millions. Now, at the dawn of a new millennium,...
The Year She Left Us
AuthorKathryn Ma
ISBN0062273345
From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize—comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future.

The Kong women are in crisis. A disastrous trip to visit her "home"...
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