Books like Chasing Grace by Martha Manning

Neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi’s poignant memoir chronicles his battle with stage IV metastatic lung cancer and his reflections on life, medicine, and mortality.

A candid memoir by psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb that blurs the line between therapist and patient, revealing the universal quest for meaning, love, and healing within personal and clinical journeys.

Witness to Hope chronicles Pope John Paul II’s transformative influence on 20th‑century world politics and the Catholic Church, drawing on unprecedented access to the pontiff and those close to him.

Anne Rice chronicles her life from a devout New Orleans upbringing, through an atheist period, to a profound Catholic conversion that reshaped her novels.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

Brennan Manning roves back through his past, honoring the lives of the people closest to him, family and friends who've known the saint and the sinner, the boy and the man. Far from some chronological timeline, these memories are witness to the truth of life by one who has lived it.