Books written by Anne Lamott

Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life

Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

is God's making a covenant afterward, via the rainbow. This is just one of a series of covenants after the breakdown of communications between God and humanity in the form of Adam and Eve, and this one includes animals and all of ...
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

A step-by-step guide to writing and managing the writer's life covers each portion of a written project, addresses such concerns as writer's block and getting published, and offers awareness and survival tips. Reprint. Tour.
Crooked Little Heart

Written with enormous emotional honesty, inhabited by superbly realized characters, riotously funny and wonderfully suspenseful, Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the height of her considerable powers.
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father—also a writer—in the iconic passage that gives the book its title: “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying ...
Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

In Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak?
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year.
Grace (eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness--sometimes all at once.
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

" Lamott encourages, instructs, and inspires. She discuss
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier nonfiction books.
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

Profound and hilarious, honest and unexpected, the stories in Small Victories are proof that the human spirit is irrepressible.
Grace (eventually): Thoughts on Faith

The author presents a collection of essays on the missteps, detours, and roadblocks in her walk of faith and in her discovery of what it means to be fully human and alive.
Crooked Little Heart: A Novel

Written with enormous emotional honesty, inhabited by superbly realized characters, riotously funny and wonderfully suspenseful, Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the height of her considerable powers.
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Anne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. It is further evidence that, as The New Yorker has written, "Anne Lamott is a cause for celebration."
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

Profound and hilarious, honest and unexpected, the stories in Small Victories are proof that the human spirit is irrepressible.
Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

By turns poignant and funny, honest and touching, Some Assembly Required is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family—as this book will change everyone who reads it.
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, Help, Thanks, Wow is the everyday faith book that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.
Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

"Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway.
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Anne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. It is further evidence that, as The New Yorker has written, "Anne Lamott is a cause for celebration."
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything "Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in...the wonderful Grace (Eventually)." ...