Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | God’s Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved | 1987 | Sue Monk Kidd | Buy |
| 2 | This Is the Day | 1987 | Sue Monk Kidd | Buy |
| 3 | All Things Are Possible | 1988 | Sue Monk Kidd | Buy |
| 4 | When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life’s Sacred Questions | 1990 | Sue Monk Kidd | Buy |
| 5 | Love’s Hidden Blessings: God Can Touch Your Life When You Least Expect It | 1990 | Sue Monk Kidd | Buy |
| 6 | The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman’s Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine | 1996 | Sue Monk Kidd | Buy |
| 7 | A Luminous Presence: One Woman’s Awakening to the Inner Life | 2005 | Sue Monk Kidd | Buy |
| 8 | Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd | 2006 | Sue Monk Kidd | Buy |
| 9 | Traveling with Pomegranates | 2009 | Sue Monk Kidd | Buy |
| 10 | Business Opportunities at Home: How to Start and Maintain Home Based Business | 2014 | Sue Monk Kidd | Buy |
| 11 | The Spiritual Sampler | 2016 | Sue Monk Kidd | Buy |
| 12 | Writing Creativity and Soul | 2025 | Sue Monk Kidd | Buy |
Sue Monk Kidd’s non-fiction traces her evolution as a spiritual writer. Her earliest works, including God’s Joyful Surprise (1987) and When the Heart Waits (1990), are rooted in Christian contemplative tradition and focus on prayer, patience, and finding God in everyday life.
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter (1996) marks a sharp departure, documenting her break from patriarchal Christianity and her discovery of feminine images of the divine. Later works like Firstlight (2006) collect her early spiritual writing, while Traveling with Pomegranates (2009), co-written with her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor, is a dual memoir about their mother-daughter relationship during trips to sacred sites in Greece. Her most recent nonfiction, Writing Creativity and Soul (2025), reflects on the craft of writing.