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Books like The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Loved The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom? 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.

  2. 2

    A History of God

    Karen Armstrong · 1993 · Religion & Spirituality

    Four thousand years of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have imagined God; lucid and even-handed.

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    Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses

    Mircea Eliade · 1976 · Religion & Spirituality

    Examines the religions of ancient China, Brahmanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, and Christianity, and explores each one's philosophical concepts.

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    The Miracle of Mindfulness

    Thich Nhat Hanh · 1975 · Religion & Spirituality

    Simple practices for being fully present; a gentle, enduring introduction to mindfulness.

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    Life After Life

    Raymond A. Moody · 1975 · Religion & Spirituality

    The groundbreaking, bestselling classic, now available in a special fortieth-anniversary edition that includes a new Foreword from Eben Alexander, M.D., author of Proof of Heaven, and a new Afterword

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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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    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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    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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    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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