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Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 3.73 — 64,727 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.37 — 883,093 ratings — published 1946
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,870,227 ratings — published 2018
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.65 — 81,775 ratings — published 2018
Front Porch Tales: Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love (Porch Talk series, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,133 ratings — published 1997
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 3.84 — 505,590 ratings — published 2016
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.41 — 810,987 ratings — published 2016
Population: 485 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,927 ratings — published 2002
Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,047 ratings — published 2014
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,070 ratings — published 2013
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,976 ratings — published 2013
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.07 — 869,475 ratings — published 2012
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.19 — 79,163 ratings — published 2002
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-experience)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,057,680 ratings — published 2011
107 Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.30 — 44,710 ratings — published 2025
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.37 — 406,334 ratings — published 2019
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 3.92 — 141,074 ratings — published 2013
The Uncomfortable Truth About Money: How to live with uncertainty and learn to think for yourself (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 3.39 — 67 ratings — published
Memorial Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.29 — 23,815 ratings — published 2025
Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.25 — 22,947 ratings — published 2022
2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,307 ratings — published
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.40 — 17,216 ratings — published 2023
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,696 ratings — published 2024
My Side of the River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,471 ratings — published 2024
Before and After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,449 ratings — published 2019
My Next Breath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.18 — 33,699 ratings — published 2025
Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass—How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,669 ratings — published 2025
Fat Envelope Frenzy: One Year, Five Promising Students, and the Pursuit of the Ivy League Prize – A Former Admissions Officer's Guide to College Admissions, Race, Class, and Harvard (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 3.31 — 137 ratings — published 2008
Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.08 — 554 ratings — published 2013
The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.27 — 787 ratings — published 2025
A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,460 ratings — published
What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,189 ratings — published
The Story of My Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.07 — 151,367 ratings — published 1902
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.14 — 101,621 ratings — published 2025
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,855 ratings — published 2021
A Rip in Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,283 ratings — published 2004
From Here to the Great Unknown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.23 — 105,569 ratings — published 2024
The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,081 ratings — published 2024
Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,500 ratings — published 2024
Christianity: An Asian Religion in Vancouver (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 3.33 — 6 ratings — published
My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,204 ratings — published 2024
I Still Believe (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.38 — 3,665 ratings — published 2011
Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,041 ratings — published 2022
The Comfort Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.05 — 74,023 ratings — published 2021
Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.03 — 37 ratings — published
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.14 — 46,338 ratings — published 2016
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.43 — 101,877 ratings — published 2014
Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.56 — 28,330 ratings — published 2023
Coming Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.37 — 11,506 ratings — published 2024
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as personal-experience)
avg rating 4.46 — 3,964 ratings — published 2021
“The past should never serve as an encumbrance, but we must exploit our experiences as learning assets. The only importance of any experience is to test oneself. Worthy challenges, fused with humility of spirit, enrich a person’s character. One must harvest the grain from their effort and discard the shaft. Before moving onward, it is critical for me to look back and remove any negative predilections that accumulated from days gone by that might mar, stunt, or otherwise arrest future personal development.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“The defining background experiences of our childhood affect our vital adulthood decisions and method of apprehending the world.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
