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Books like This is my God

Loved This is my God by Herman Wouk? 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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    Mere Christianity

    C.S. Lewis · 1952 · Religion & Spirituality

    A clear, conversational case for the Christian faith; influential well beyond its tradition.

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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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    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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    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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    Bless Me, Ultima

    Rudolfo A. Anaya · 1972 · Religion & Spirituality

    Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, comes to Antonio Marez's New Mexico family when he is six years old, and she helps him discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan pas

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