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Books like Mere Christianity

Loved Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from religion & spirituality, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    The Power of Now

    Eckhart Tolle · 1997 · Religion & Spirituality

    A guide to living in the present moment; the bestselling cornerstone of modern mindfulness.

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    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    James Baldwin · 1952 · Religion & Spirituality

    In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral str

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    Round the Bend

    Nevil Shute · 1951 · Religion & Spirituality

    Tom Cutter runs an air charter service from Arabia to the Far East after the war. His best friend is the Russian-American Connie Shanklin. Connie works for Tom and inspires faith and hope in men of al

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    This is my God

    Herman Wouk · 1959 · Religion & Spirituality

    This Is My God is Herman Wouk's famous introduction to Judaism completely updated and revised with a new chapter, Israel at Forty. A miracle of brevity, it guides readers through the world's oldest pr

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    Before philosophy, the intellectual adventure of ancient man

    Henri Frankfort · 1946 · Religion & Spirituality

    "An Oriental Institute essay."Originally published under title: The intellectual adventure of ancient man. Introduction: Myth and reality, by H. and H.A. Frankfort.--Egypt: The nature of the universe.

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    A Burnt-Out Case

    Graham Greene · 1960 · Religion & Spirituality

    Querry is assigned to a leper colony on the upper reaches of the Congo, run by a doctor as lacking in faith as he is himself.

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    Black like me

    John Howard Griffin · 1960 · Religion & Spirituality

    Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required

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    Stranger in a Strange Land

    Robert A. Heinlein · 1961 · Religion & Spirituality

    Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after bei

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    One-Dimensional Man

    Herbert Marcuse · 1963 · Religion & Spirituality

    One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society is a 1964 book by the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, in which the author offers a wide-ranging critique of both contemporary c

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    The Problem of Pain

    C. S. Lewis · 1940 · Religion & Spirituality

    Why must humanity suffer? In this elegant and thoughtful work, C. S. Lewis questions the pain and suffering that occur everyday and how this contrasts with the notion of a God that is both omnipotent

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