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Eat, Pray, Spiral: Books for When Self Help Isn't Helping 🌀
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Rhiannon May
Books about women searching for meaning, faith, love, or just a reason to get out of bed — and ending up somewhere weirder than they started. Think spiritual journeys gone off the rails: cosmic breakdowns, holy hangovers, mermaids, cults, and mothers...
 
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Short stories that feel like a spiritual bender. Grotesque, hilarious, and scabby in a way that somehow feels holy.
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
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Swamps, snakes, hurricanes, and feral women in flip flops. Nature's church but with more mosquito bites.
Florida by Lauren Groff
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Academic burnout + horny mermaid boyfriend = the weirdest healing arc you'll ever root for.
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
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Surreal body horror and biblical vibes. It's like a parable carved into flesh.
The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
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Folkloric short stories where the supernatural feels more grounded than real life. Eerie, tender, strange.
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
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Addiction memoir meets spiritual awakening. Sharp, messy, and genuinely luminous.
Lit by Mary Karr
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Her dad is a Catholic priest, her writing is unhinged poetry disguised as memoir. Sacred chaos.
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
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Existential girl talk bible. Friendship, art, and asking the big dumb question: what now?
How Should a Person Be be Sheila Heti
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Memoir/therapy hybrid that makes you want to underline every other sentence and then spiral in a good way.
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
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A breakup novel that zooms out until you're in cosmic territory. Sad, funny, philosophical.
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
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A fragmented self portrait that reads like psalms for a restless mind.
Autoportrait by Edouard Leve
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Minimalist and meditative. Feels like grief written in falling snow.
The White Book by Han Kang
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True crime refracted through family trauma and philosophy. Spiritual excavation with teeth.
The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson
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Mother daughter trip to a bizarre Spanish clinic. Healing rituals, cult vibes, and simmering rage.
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
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Kids who literally burst into flames when upset. Parenting as holy trial by fire. Absurd but tender.
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
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A fever dream diary of love, politics, and apocalypse anxiety. Feels like scrolling Twitter while trying to be spiritual.
Crudo by Olivia Laing
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Darkly funny domestic horror about bad mothers, haunted kitchens, and what happens when healing looks more like possession.
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
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Short stories that bend reality, desire, and violence into modern myths. Spiritual and grotesque all at once.
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
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