Glennon Doyle Books in Order

About

Glennon Doyle is an American author, activist, and founder of Together Rising, a nonprofit that has raised over $25 million for women and families in crisis. Her three memoirs — Carry On, Warrior (2013), Love Warrior (2016), and Untamed (2020) — form a loosely connected arc chronicling her journey from addiction and bulimia through marriage, divorce, and finally falling in love with US Women's National Soccer Team star Abby Wambach. Untamed became an Oprah Book Club selection and sold millions of copies, dominating bestseller lists through 2020 and beyond. She hosts the podcast We Can Do Hard Things with Wambach and her sister Amanda Doyle, extending the same confessional philosophy into long-form conversation.

What makes Doyle distinctive is her combination of aphoristic punch and radical self-disclosure. Her sentences are short, declarative, and structured to land like punches: “We can do hard things.” She writes in scenes rather than arguments, letting readers arrive at her conclusions rather than lecturing. Compared to Brené Brown, whose vulnerability research shares similar themes, Doyle is more politically charged — she writes explicitly about race, sexuality, and social conformity in ways Brown tends to avoid. She gives no quarter to the idea of maintaining a life that looks fine but feels dishonest.

Doyle grew up in Virginia in a Christian household, struggled with bulimia from age ten, and was in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction when she became pregnant with her first child. Her early writing — on a blog called Momastery — attracted millions of readers who recognized themselves in her refusal to perform perfection. Her first marriage to Craig Melton, the subject of Love Warrior, ended when she fell in love with Wambach. That decision — leaving a marriage to a man for a woman, publicly, with children watching — is the center of Untamed and the act that gave the book its particular urgency. Her life is her argument.

“We can do hard things” is Doyle’s central thesis, and readers connect with it because it reframes the experience of blowing up a comfortable life. Her books give permission: to leave, to want more, to acknowledge that a life that looks right from the outside can feel like imprisonment on the inside. She is not a neutral voice — she has strong opinions and is willing to offend — which is precisely why her readers trust her. In a genre where celebrity memoirs often feel managed and opaque, Doyle writes as if she has decided there is nothing left to protect.