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Books like A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

Loved A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne? 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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    Tancred

    Benjamin Disraeli · 1830 · Religion & Spirituality

    Publisher's advertisements: [12] p. at rear of vol. III. "Tancred as the trilogy's final novel oscillates erratically from its political moorings to its concern with faith, subjectivity, and imaginati

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    The Devil's Dictionary

    Ambrose Bierce · 1840 · Religion & Spirituality

    The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title Th

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    The philosophy of Hegel

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1843 · Religion & Spirituality

    Although this volume does not comprise all the material collected and published by Nohl, it includes all Hegel's most important early theological writings.

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    Roots

    Alex Haley · 1861 · Religion & Spirituality

    Roots is a novel written by Alex Haley and published in 1976. It portrays the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and f

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    Stepping heavenward

    Elizabeth Prentiss · 1869 · Religion & Spirituality

    From the author of the beloved hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ," this newly released classic rings true for today's women, young and old. "How dreadfully old I am getting! Sixteen!" writes Katherine

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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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    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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    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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    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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