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Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing
Hillary L. McBride
The Girls
Emma Cline
Godshot
Chelsea Bieker
The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation
Michel Hendricks
We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too)
Kate Cohen
Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose
Aimee Byrd
Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church
Chrissy Stroop
Holy Woman: a divine adventure
Louise Omer
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Bart D. Ehrman
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority Within the Church
David R. Johnson
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Lauren Hough
Speaking in Tongues
Tom Tilley
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
Faith Jones
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion
Marlene Winell
Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
American Rapture
C.J. Leede
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
Megan Phelps-Roper
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
Sarah McCammon
#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing
Emily Joy Allison
How to Say Babylon
Safiya Sinclair
Educated
Tara Westover
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