Recommended reading for discerning your vocation

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Vocations Anonymous: A Handbook for Adults Discerning Priesthood and Religious Life
Kathleen Bryant, RSC; (2014, Rogationist Publications) 264 pgs.

What Are You Looking For? Seeking the God Who Is Seeking You
Joan Chittister, OSB (2019, Paulist Press) 64 pgs.

Called: What happens after saying Yes to God
Casey Cole, OFM (2018, Franciscan Media) 192 pages

Discernment: A Path to Spiritual Awakening
Rose Mary Dougherty, SSND (2009, Paulist Press) 96 pgs.

Hearing with the Heart – A Gentle Guide to Discerning God’s Will for Your Life
Debra K. Farrington (2002, Jossey-Bass) 247 pgs.

Feels Like Home: A Single Catholic Woman’s Guide to Religious Life in the U.S.
Susan Flansburg (2023, self-published) 111 pgs.

Dating God: Live and Love in the Way of St. Francis
Dan Horan, OFM (2012, St. Anthony Messenger Press) 144 pgs.

Your One Wild and Precious Life: Thoughts on Vocation
Mark-David Janus, CSP, PhD (2018, Paulist Press) 112 pgs.

The Art of Discernment: Making good decisions in your world of choices
Stefan Kiechle (2005, Ave Maria Press) 121 pgs.

Discerning Religious Life
Sister Clare Matthiass, CFR (2017, Vianney Vocations) 200 pages

Prophetic Witnesses to Joy: A Theology of the Vowed Life
Juliet Mousseau, (2021, Liturgical Press) 120 pages

A Sacred Voice is Calling: Personal Vocation and Social Conscience
John Neafsey (2006, Orbis Books) 210 pgs.

Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life
Henri Nouwen (2015, HarperOne) 256 pgs.

Seeing with the Heart: A Guide to Navigating Life’s Adventures
Kevin O’Brien, SJ (2023, Loyola Press) 224 pg.

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Parker J. Palmer (1999, Jossey-Bass) 128 pgs.

The Holy Longing: The Search for Christian Spirituality
Father Ronald Rolheiser, O.M.I. (1999, Doubleday) 272 pgs.

What’s Your Decision?
J. Michael Sparough, SJ, Jim Manney and Tim Hipskind, SJ (2010, Loyola Press) 176 pg.

God’s Voice Within: The Ignatian Way to Discover God’s Will
Father Mark Thibodeaux, S.J. (2010, Loyola Press) 242 pgs.

How to Discover your Vocation
Fr Stephen Wang (2009, Catholic Truth Society) 98 pg.

Tuning in to God’s Call 
Father Andrew Carl Wisdom, OP and Sister Christine Kiley, ASCJ (Ligouri, 2012) 112 pgs.