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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.
Religious and spiritual writing spans millennia of human thought about meaning, transcendence and how to live. This list spans 1940–1997 and includes 1 marked as essential reading in religion & spirituality.
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The Power of Now
A guide to living in the present moment; the bestselling cornerstone of modern mindfulness.
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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 bright pavilions
This fifth historical novel in the Herries Chronicle, set against the background of the turmoil and politics of Elizabethan England, tells the tale of one family's experiences of divided loyalties and