Books by Daniel Berry
Other lives.
Familiar questions.
Three published books about the lives we build, the people we need, and what we discover along the way. Each has a place to start reading.
Novel·Preview available
What We Still Want
Maren wants to find her way back to Jack. Zee wants to help. As care begins to influence the choices around them, love, dependence, and agency become harder to separate. The novel continues the lives introduced in Everything We Asked For and 404: Conscious Not Found.
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Personal nonfiction·Preview available
The Man I Want to Be
I am writing about the man I hope to become across marriage, public service, family, and Christian community. I am not writing from a place of having those roles figured out. The book begins inside that unfinished work.
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Personal nonfiction·Preview available
A Place to Belong
I am exploring faith, Scripture, suffering, imperfection, and what it means to belong. I keep returning to the connection between my relationship with God and the ways I have, and sometimes have not, been genuinely present for other people.
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Novel·Preview available
Untitled romance
Claire and Owen meet, fall in love, build a relationship, and discover that loving someone does not prevent you from hurting them. I am working toward a complete, emotionally honest story about what it takes to find a way back.
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