I'd be lying if I tried to convince you that there is a specific spirituality category. All reading is spiritual to me. All books listed have been spiritually impactful in one form or another. For that reason, I've arranged them alphabetically (by title). However, I am also categorizing them into Children, Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry. This list is ever-changing based on books I've forgotten or books I'm reading.
My list of books that inspire me:
C H I L D R E N
Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Go the F**ck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper and Loren Long
The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
Oh, the Places You Will Go by Dr. Suess
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson
F I C T I O N
The Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by W.M. Paul Young
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
N O N - F I C T I O N
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
Are You Anybody: A Memoir by Jeffrey Tambor
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee by Sarah Silverman
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Happy Intercessor by Beni Johnson
How To Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living by Rob Bell
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition by Wendell Berry
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell
Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within by Kim Addonizio
Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You by Brennan Manning
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Rooted: The Hidden Places Where God Develops You by Banning Liebscher
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You by Shawn Bolz
What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Rob Bell
The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage by Rob Bell and Kristen Bell
P O E T R Y
Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Love Poems by Pablo Neruda and Donald D. Walsh
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