Books like Love does

A joyful, high-energy invitation to stop overthinking faith and start living it out through whimsical, radical action. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Love does.

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01
Crazy love
Francis Chan
An urgent, passionate wake-up call that challenges comfortable believers to trade religious routine for a radical, all-consuming devotion.
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- earnest
02
Love Wins
Rob Bell
A gentle but provocative dismantling of fear-based theology that invites the reader into a more expansive, grace-filled faith.
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- hopeful
- earnest
- uplifting
03
All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten
Robert Fulghum · 1986
A warm, nostalgic embrace that reminds you to look for profound wisdom in the simplest moments of daily life.
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- earnest
- uplifting
04
The Meaning of Marriage
Kathy Keller
A thoughtful, anchoring exploration of love that trades the fragile myth of the soulmate for the resilient beauty of covenant.
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- hopeful
- earnest
05
Do hard things
Alex Harris · 2008
An earnest, rallying cry for Christian teens to reject cultural complacency and step into a life of radical responsibility.
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- hopeful
- earnest
- uplifting
06
Tattoos on the heart
Gregory Boyle
A deeply moving tapestry of vignettes that shatters the illusion that we are separate from one another.
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- hopeful
- earnest
- humorous
07
The Irresistible Revolution
Shane Claiborne
A challenging yet deeply hopeful invitation to bridge the gap between spiritual belief and radical, on-the-ground compassion.
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- hopeful
- earnest
08
The Ragamuffin Gospel
Brennan Manning · 2003
A fiercely compassionate, deeply personal meditation that offers a warm embrace to the spiritually exhausted.
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- hopeful
- earnest
09
The Shack
William P. Young · 2007
An emotional, allegorical journey through the depths of unimaginable grief into the warm, unconventional embrace of divine healing.
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- earnest
- uplifting
10
The Circle Maker
Mark Batterson
An energizing, spiritually charged manifesto that challenges readers to transform passive wishing into bold, persistent faith.
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- hopeful
- earnest
- uplifting
11
The pursuit of God
A. W. Tozer
A passionate, challenging call to strip away superficial religion and cultivate a burning, intimate hunger for the divine.
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- earnest
12
More Than a Carpenter
Josh McDowell · 1977
A brisk, conversational journey from hard-nosed skepticism to earnest spiritual conviction.
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- hopeful
- earnest
- uplifting

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