Autumn naturally invites us to slow down and reflect on everything we have accomplished this year. For the Spiritual Seeker, this cozy season offers an ideal space to nourish your soul, practice mindfulness and deepen your inner faith.
Explore our hand-picked selection of the best spiritual new release books, including inspirational fiction and nonfiction titles designed to offer comfort, clarity and purpose. If you enjoy transformative books from beloved spiritual voices and inspirational storytellers like Jay Shetty, Eckhart Tolle, Richard Rohr and Karen Kingsbury, these books will guide you on your path.
Inspirational New Books September 2026
40 Days to Look Again: A Devotional to Embrace Your Worth, Reclaim Your Hope, and Run with Confidence
by Tim Tebow - A J Gregory
Find the hope and confidence you've been longing for when you learn to stop believing the lie that you're not enough.
In 40 Days to Look Again, join speaker, entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author Tim Tebow for a 40-day devotional journey to discover that your true, infinite worth was something God gave the moment He created you.
We all want to know that we have value. We try so hard. We strive for success and achievements that we think will make us feel we have worth. And in the end, we are left feeling empty and alone. But if we look again, there is a different and better truth that God has been trying to get us to see all along.
In 40 Days to Look Again, Tim invites you to see a whole new way to live. You will discover that no matter what the world says, God gave you infinite worth the moment He created you. Nothing and no one can ever change that. You will learn to:
- Stand up to the lies that say you're not enough
- Anchor your hope in the truth of God's promises
- Rediscover the infinite worth God stamped on every life
Each daily entry includes:
- A verse from Scripture to anchor your life in God's Word
- An uplifting devotional reflection to Tim
- A declaration of God's truth that you can speak over your life for that day
- A personal action step
- An encouraging quote to affirm God's love for you
40 Days to Look Again is a wonderful gift for friends or loved ones. It is also a perfect six-week study for small groups and classes, with prompts and action steps that spark honest conversation about worth, hope, and how we see others.
It's time to change the way you see yourself and the way you see others. If you are ready to experience the hope, confidence, and joy that comes when you embrace the amazing truth that your worth was given to you by God the moment He created you, then get ready to look again.
The Butterfly Season: What 64 Butterflies Taught Me about Nature's Great Mysteries and the Meaning of Life
by Lea Korsgaard - Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg
Lea Korsgaard's number-one international bestseller tells the story of the year she spent tracking every species of butterfly in her native Denmark. Suffused with beauty and wonder, The Butterfly Season is a love letter to the natural world and an unforgettable reflection on the precious and fleeting nature of life itself.
"The Butterfly Season is an inspiring love letter to the magic of the natural world, in all its beauty and complexity and joy--an unforgettable reminder that wonder awakens the heart." --Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author of The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Combining nature writing, philosophy, myth, science, and 64 beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, The Butterfly Season is a luminous account of one woman's quest to see all 64 species of butterflies native to Denmark in a single year. Part field diary, part mythological tapestry, part existential reflection, Lea Korsgaard's journey unfolds across seasons and geographies, through meadows, marshes, and ancient coastal lands, as she discovers the mysteries and miracles of the natural world.
On the first day of the year, Korsgaard sat at her desk, making a list. It was a typically cold, quiet January day, and the possibility of the new year--of new discoveries and new challenges--reawakened an old dream of hers: to see every Danish butterfly species in one year. At first, the goal felt impossible--Korsgaard knew almost nothing about butterflies--but she persevered, creating a color-coded tracking system that mapped butterfly regions and flight times with meticulous care. As the project developed, what was at first a simple exercise in discovery became an intimate reckoning with transformation and rebirth, the butterfly's fleeting existence knitting together beginnings, endings, and the life made in between.
The Butterfly Season is perfect for readers of Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton and The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan.
Count It All Joy: Stories, Poems, and Essays to Inspire the Soul
by Editors at Paraclete Press
This beautifully designed gift book celebrates the power of joy in all seasons and circumstances of life through short stories, Scriptures, poems, and contemporary images.
Joy can come out of nowhere, surprising us in a moment of gratitude and delight. Joy can be hard-won, something we struggle to choose when our emotions lead us elsewhere. Different from happiness, joy has a divine quality-it can take our breath away with wonder and yet be strangely linked with sorrow. It can flood into our heart one moment and leave it aching the next. C.S. Lewis called it a holy longing--a kind of heavenly homesickness. Count it All Joy: Stories, Poems, and Essays to Inspire the Soul shines a light on the ways joy has been found by others in many circumstances, inspiring us to reflect on how we might have more joy in our own lives.
Count It All Joy explores the joy that comes in all seasons of life: joy chosen defiantly in the face of suffering, joy found in generosity, joy hidden in the mundane, joy erupting from the wonder of creation, and joy springing from creativity. This biblically rooted, passionately hope-filled book combines evocative photography with poems, short stories, essays, and prose, from Scripture to Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Helen Keller, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, to Francine Rivers, Andrew Calis, Nikki Grimes, and many more.
Count it All Joy:
- Combines classic and contemporary writings with compelling imagery that gives the book a fresh, modern aesthetic.
- Includes full-color illustrations and a ribbon marker--making it a beautiful gift for any occasion.
- Will appeal to book lovers who enjoy and draw spiritual wisdom from classic and contemporary literature.
- Makes a thoughtful and meaningful gift for a friend who is going through a difficult time and for pastors, counselors, teachers, doctors, nurses, caregivers, and others in the field of service.
In a culture of cynicism, false promises, and confusion, Count it All Joy points to the true and unfailing source of joy, God the creator and heavenly Father who delights in his people. It will leave you with a new understanding of joy - not as an elusive emotion, but as a spiritual power and vital necessity in our world today.
House of the Forest: Life-Giving Declarations for Strength and Abundance in Every Season
by Tara Sierra Moseley
Words for when prayer is hard. Strength for when the season is heavy.A beautiful and powerful collection of scripture-based declarations for moments when faith must be spoken before it is felt. Birthed in prayer and forged in the fire, each decree carries the authority of Heaven and is meant to be spoken in faith. Inspired by Solomon's House of the Forest of Lebanon--a sacred armory where gold shields and trophies of victory were stored--this book is a spiritual armory of its own. Not for display, but for use.
Organized by theme, House of the Forest offers life-giving declarations for every season, including:
- Decrees of Health and Healing
- Decrees over Family and Relationships
- Decrees over Identity and Struggles
- Decrees over Suffering and Crisis
- Decrees for Home and Daily Life
House of the Forest is a gift for the weary, the believing, and the barely holding on--a reminder that God is present, faithful, and that nothing is impossible with Him.
It All Starts When You Do: How to Do the Real Work of Self-Healing
by Kier Gaines
What if the biggest obstacle to happiness isn't your environment, your past, or other people--but a blindness to some uncomfortable truths about yourself?
In the book his fans have been waiting for, one of the internet's most beloved therapists, Kier Gaines, sets the record straight: mantras and toxic positivity won't solve your problems. Instead, Gaines offers a bold new path to getting what you want in life: You need to know yourself better. A lot better than you do now.
In It All Starts When You Do, Gaines walks you through the hard but rewarding work you need to do when you simply can't figure out what feels off in your life. Whether your career is stuck in neutral, your family is driving you crazy, or you're struggling to find love, you'll learn how to:
- Begin healing from the inner wounds you might not even be aware you have
- Conquer unconscious emotional hijacking
- Align your actions with your true desires
- Build self-esteem based on solid evidence and effort, not empty affirmations
- Stop consuming the empty calories of negative self-talk which can destroy progress
- Overcome the illusion of comfort that keeps you stuck
- And much more
It All Starts When You Do will arm you with the tools you need to stop sabotaging your life, and get down to the business of living it.
Psyche's Awakening: A Guide to Emotional and Somatic Healing Through the Wisdom of Greek Myth
by Gillian O'Shea Brown LCSW
Ancient Greek mythology meets the best of today's psychological insights for a hero's journey you won't soon forget: your own.
It's a tale as old as time: a seeker steps out from the familiar into the unknown, facing great danger on the way to enlightenment. While in ancient myth the hero must slay a monster, in real life you must conquer the challenges within. This emotional quest invokes an inner alchemy, transforming wounds into wisdom, shame into self-forgiveness, and pain into purpose. In Psyche's Awakening, psychotherapist Gillian O'Shea Brown turns to these epic dramas as mirrors and maps guiding you to rediscover powers of resilience and wisdom within waiting to be claimed.
The Greek myths are some of the most enduring stories of all time because their archetypal energies are alive in us today, woven into our psyche and shaping our thoughts, behaviors, and experiences as we move through life. We have much to learn from Medusa's body-based trauma, Sisyphus's pattern of pain (known as "the bite that fits the wound"), Pygmalion's boundary work and emotional walls, Icarus's efforts to balance the dignity of risk with the duty of care, and Chiron's transformation beyond trauma in becoming "the wounded healer."
Through vibrant mythical retellings and evidence-based, trauma-informed psychological insights, Psyche's Awakening will support your journey with:
- Somatic exercises such as breathwork, body scans, and grounding rituals
- Guided tools for charting your erotic-emotional map
- Techniques for social pruning and revitalizing your relationships
- Compassionate shadow work and self-healing practices
As Gillian writes, "The greatest adventure you will ever embark on is the journey back to yourself. This path is rich with unexpected twists, turns, heartbreak, fear, and the vital experience of learning to release what no longer serves you." This book is your map to this sacred awakening.
This Side of the Sky: 101 Poems and Scriptures for the Hungry, Hopeful, and Homesick
by Laura Wifler
Known for giving language to what many women feel but struggle to name, Laura Wifler's debut poetry collection is as riveting as it is relatable.
Written with her signature timbre of startling honesty and unfaltering hope, Laura offers readers a new way to witness life in This Side of The Sky. Through poetry that is remarkably specific yet wildly universal, Laura explores what it means to grow older in a fallen body, tangles with complicated feelings about grief and suffering this side of Heaven and examines the aches of living in a world that feels both heavy and holy.
In these poems and Scriptures, you will find:
- permission to be honest about the pain of life, without losing faith
- a tender awareness of God's nearness, even when life feels chaotic
- encouragement, joy, and comfort in your pursuit of Christ, fortifying your faith even in trials
- a reminder that Heaven is real, and it holds hope for you today
A trusted and authentic voice for modern Christian women, Laura's poems grapple with the parts of us that know God is real but need reminders that He is moving in our lives, even now. Her compassionate words are ones to tape onto mirrors, tuck into Bibles, send to friends in crisis, and save for days when everyday life feels like too much. Like a hand beckoning, these poems invite us to notice the holy mystery woven through our ordinary days and trust that, even here on this side of the sky, we are held by a God who is both tender and present.
Tree: My Encounters with Trees
by Aya Koda - Charlotte Goff
**A London Review Bookshop Bestseller**
'Translated into English for the first time after a hugely successful 2022 reissue in Japan, this classic text, which features prominently in Wim Wenders' film Perfect Days, takes us on a "beautiful, pensive" journey through trees in Japan.'--Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller
A Japanese classic, Tree invites us to foster peace in our lives by connecting with trees.
Cherry blossom, hinoki, ezo spruce. Persimmon, maple, cypress. The trees of Japan are wondrous emblems of beauty that cast a spell on those who venture to its unique landscape.
As a child, Aya Kōda realized they were more than mere objects of beauty. Gifted a sapling by her father, she discovered that we depend on trees as much as they do on us. Markers of time passing, they clear the air and regenerate our earth - while we are responsible to care for their future.
Following her travels around Japan, as she witnesses landslides, lumber and forests of falling ash, Tree is a beautiful series of essays that contemplate the most distinctive and eternal features of our natural world. A modern classic translated for the first time, Kōda's voice echoes down the generations, to remind us that trees hold a mirror to what we cherish on earth, and what we choose to leave behind.
Featured in Wim Winders' Oscar-nominated film Perfect Days and now in English for the first time, translated from Japanese by Charlotte Goff.
For more inspirational reads, check out our guide to the best books for Spiritual Seekers from the Summer of 2026, or visit our sister website Graceful Reads, where you can find more Christian and faith-based content.