6 Top religion books like A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan

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A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

By: Timothy Egan

4.12

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Ti…

"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

"I don't expect a miracle cure, but I have found that wishing for one is the most humbling form of prayer."

-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

If you liked the religion plot in A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Circular Staircase

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

3.79

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the ci… read more

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  • audiobook

2. Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West

By: David Marshall , David Weston Marshall

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first U.S. expedition t… read more

Similar categories in David Marshall's Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West book and Timothy Egan's A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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3. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

Similar categories in Doris Kearns Goodwin's An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s book and Timothy Egan's A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War book and Timothy Egan's A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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5. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • audiobook
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6. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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  • audiobook
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7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Timothy Egan's A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

  • audiobook
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8. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

Similar categories in David Grann's The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder book and Timothy Egan's A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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9. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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  • audiobook
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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11. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church

By: Nijay K. Gupta

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

By: Timothy Egan

4.12

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Ti… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Egan's A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith book and Timothy Egan's A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

"I don't expect a miracle cure, but I have found that wishing for one is the most humbling form of prayer."

-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

"Poverty is the ultimate freedom. You can't rob someone who has no possessions. You can't insult a person without pride."

-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

"The audacity. Not only was she (Joan of Arc) a peasant girl, unschooled and clueless in the ways of power, class and the military strategy, weaponry, the mechanics of a siege, but was determined to g…"

-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

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13. Trash: A Poor White Journey

By: Cedar Monroe

3.73

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

Human beings are not trash, and the system that enables humans to imagine each other as such needs … read more

Similar categories in Cedar Monroe's Trash: A Poor White Journey book and Timothy Egan's A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President

By: Jonathan Darman

4.38

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

This revealing biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt shows how one of the most consequential leaders i… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Darman's Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President book and Timothy Egan's A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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15. Life: My Story Through History

By: Pope Francis

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous worl… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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16. Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future

By: Pope Francis

4.24

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

In this uplifting and practical book, written in collaboration with his biographer, Austen Ivereigh… read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"For me it's clear: we must redesign the economy so that it can offer every person access to a dignified existence while protecting and regenerating the natural world."

-Pope Francis, Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future

"When a weak person receives a lot of praise, said (Saint) Gregory (the Great) he "does not so much delight to Become as to be Called blessed," and gradually, in seeking after applause, he "is severed…"

-Pope Francis, Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future

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17. The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness

By: Andy McCullough

4.49

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, based on exclusive interviews with Kershaw… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

By: Sarah Stankorb

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Journalist Sarah Stankorb outlines how access to the internet—its networks, freedom of expression, … read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever

By: Rachel Lance

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

This is a previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers—men and women—who expo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America

By: Philip Bump

3.61

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A widely-read Washington Post columnist takes a deep dive into what the end of the baby boom means … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

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4.24

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3.99

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