Books written by Anne Lamott

  • Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

    The world, the community, the family, the heart: these are the beautiful and complicated arenas in which our lives unfold.

  • Hard Laughter

    Anne Lamott's poignant first novel, reissued in an attractive new edition. Writer (and sometime housecleaner) Jennifer is twenty-three when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This...

  • Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

    In this book Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this ...

  • Dusk Night Dawn: On Revival and Courage

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR How do we get through dark times when we feel like giving in to fear and despair, and when existential dread has convinced us of...

  • Anne Lamott Quotes: Anne Lamott, Quotes, Quotations, Famous Quotes

    " The Best Anne Lamott Quotation Book ever Published. Special Edition This book of Anne Lamott quotes contains only the rarest and most valuable quotations ever recorded about Anne Lamott, authored by a team of experienced researchers.

  • Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

    "Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway.

  • 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.

  • Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

    In this book Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this ...

  • The Writing Frame of Mind: From Bird by Bird

    A Vintage Shorts selection. • To the enormous challenges of being a writer, Anne Lamott offers invaluable advice and encouragement, which more than a million scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities have been inspired by for a ...

  • 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.

  • Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

    From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives "I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await ...

  • Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

    Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight and, with warmth and humour, offers a path forward.

  • Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

    Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

  • All New People: A Novel

    In All New People, Anne Lamott works a special magic, transforming failure into forgiveness and illuminating the power of love to redeem us.

  • Joe Jones: A Novel

    Louise, a cook at Jessie's Cafe, relies on humor and the friendship of her co-workers and the regulars at the cafe to get over her breakup with Joe Jones.

  • Blue Shoe

    The New York Times Bestseller from the beloved author of Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything Mattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke.

  • Crooked Little Heart

    Brilliantly written, inhabited by superbly realized characters, funny and human and wonderfully suspenseful, "Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the peak of her considerable powers. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

  • Crooked Little Heart

    This book is an absorbing portrait of a family as they deal with the death of a beloved family friend, the pregnancy of a young teen, and the world of...

  • Rosie

    Rosie is part of Ann Lamott's best-selling trilogy about a mother and daughter and how Elizabeth and Rosie, two forceful and complex people, rebuild their family of two.

  • Imperfect Birds: A Novel

    This is Anne Lamott's most honest and heartrending novel yet, exploring our human quest for connection and salvation as it reveals the traps that can befall all of us.