​Books about Women and Religion and Spirituality




Through the Narrow Gate:  A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery (1982), Karen Armstrong

The Spiral Staircase:  My Climb Out of Darkness (2004), Karen Armstrong

Double Crossed:  Uncovering the Catholic Churches Betrayal of American Nuns (2007), Kenneth Briggs 

Traveling Mercies:  SomeThoughts on Faith (2000), Anne Lamott

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith (2006), Anne Lamott

Grace (Eventually) Thoughts on Faith (2008), Anne Lamott

Standing in the Light:  My Life as a Pantheist (2008), Shaman Russell

The Butterfly Mosque:  A Young American Women's Journey to Love and Islam (2010), G. Willow Wilson

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress (2009), Rhoda Janzen

Song in a Weary Throat:  An American Pilgrimage (1987), Pauli Murray

I Want To Be Left Behind:  Finding Rapture Here on Earth (2010), Brenda Peterson

Here If You Need Me:  A True Story (2008), Kate Brastrup

Bread of Angels:  A Journey to Love and Faith (2010), Stephanie Salda

Gift From the Sea (1955), Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A Year by the Sea  (2000), Joan Anderson

The House by the Sea (1996), Mae Sarton.

A New Kind of Country (1989). Dorothy Gilman.

The Irrational Season (1984). Madeline L'Engle

Riding with the Shadows of Saints (2005). Jana Richman

To Heaven and Back (2011).  Mary Neal

Marriage and Other Acts of Charity (2011).  Kate Braestrup

Mother Angelica:  The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve and a Network of Miracles  (2005).  Raymond Arroyo

After the Apple:  Books about Women in the Bible:  Stories of Love, Lust and Longing (2013).  Naomi Rosenblatt

Leaving Church:  A Memoir of Faith (2009) Barbara Brown Taylor.

Something Other Than God.  (2014). Jennifer Fulwiler.

Small Victories:  Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace. (2014). Anne Lamott

Devotion ( 2010), Dani Shapiro

Anchors and Flares (2015) Kate Braestrup

The Goddess Pose (2015) Michelle Goldberg

The Hand on the Mirror (2015) Janis H Durham

Seven Women (2015)  Eric Metakas

Surprised by Oxford (2011) Carolyn Weber

Accidental Saints:  Finding God in all the Wrong People (2015) Nabia Bolz-Weber

Casting Lots (2016) Susan Silverman

Prison Angel (2006) Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan

Threading My Prayer Rug (2016) Sabeeha Rehman

Searching for Sunday (2015) Rachel Evans

River of Fire (2019) Helen Prejean

To Heaven and Back (2012) Mary Neal

Abuelita Faith (2021). Kat Armas

Wholehearted Faith (2021). Rachel Held Evans

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