5 must-read religion books like Hell Is a World Without You by Jason Kirk

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Hell Is a World Without You

By: Jason Kirk

4.59

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Rarely has an Evangelical upbringing been depicted with the relentless honesty, wide-ranging empath…

"It's a disorienting moment, when you realize the Christmas story you've read a hundred times has always included, hidden in plain sight, an anarchist manifesto."

-Jason Kirk, Hell Is a World Without You

"It's a disorienting moment, when you realize the Christmas story you've read a hundred times has always included, hidden in plain sight, an anarchist manifesto."

-Jason Kirk, Hell Is a World Without You

If you liked the religion plot in Hell Is a World Without You by Jason Kirk , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium: Football and the Game of Life

By: John Ed Bradley

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"The best sports book of the year." - Sports Illustrated "John Ed Bradley says that all he ever wa… read more

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2. Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series

By: Dan Wetzel , Josh Peter , Jeff Passan

4.18

Format: 342 pages,

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3. The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team

By: Ben Lindbergh , Sam Miller

3.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball te… read more

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4. Under This Red Rock

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Neely’s monsters don’t always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in h… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

By: Tom Coyne

4.30

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the span of one unforgettable year, Coyne crisscrosses the country in search of its greatest gol… read more

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"First tees no longer made me nervous, but somehow rangers still did."

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

"A holed ball was beautiful and final. All it left you were the stories of how it arrived there, powerless I change that plot."

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

"The land on which this game is played holds memories for a very long time, and once in a while, it lets us come back and walk around in them."

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

"People who don’t play golf pro to envy their golfing neighbors, admiring it as a nifty game you can play to a ripe old age. What they don’t understand is that we don’t keep playing because we can; we…"

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

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6. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

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7. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

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8. 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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  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
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9. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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  • humor
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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10. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
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11. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

By: Abraham Riesman

3.75

Format: 464 pages, ebook

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more

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12. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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13. Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

By: K.J. Parker

4.08

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

This is the story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarissimus, and his history of the Grea… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it."

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

"My guess is, they couldn't sleep, and they had the kind of generous nature that reckons insomnia isn't something you hoard all for yourself, you share it with your friends and loved ones."

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

"My belief is, either you understand things or you understand people. Nobody can do both. Frankly, I’m happier with things. I understand stuff like tensile strength, shearing force, ductility, work ha…"

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

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14. Hell Is a World Without You

By: Jason Kirk

4.59

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Rarely has an Evangelical upbringing been depicted with the relentless honesty, wide-ranging empath… read more

Similar categories in Jason Kirk's Hell Is a World Without You book and Jason Kirk's Hell Is a World Without You

  • christianity
  • faith
  • coming of age
  • humor
  • religion
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"It's a disorienting moment, when you realize the Christmas story you've read a hundred times has always included, hidden in plain sight, an anarchist manifesto."

-Jason Kirk, Hell Is a World Without You

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15. Dirtbag: Essays

By: Amber A'Lee Frost

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The victories and failures of millennial socialism, as told by the writer who lived it. Amber A'Le… read more

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Cover of Theologizin' Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly by Trey Ferguson

16. Theologizin' Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly

By: Trey Ferguson

4.76

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Theologizin' Bigger is a book by bestselling author, pastor, podcaster, and public theologian Trey … read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
Cover of God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music by Leah Payne

17. God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music

By: Leah Payne

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Traces Contemporary Christian Music's role in creating a theological and political vision for publi… read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

18. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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19. T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People

By: Ian Karmel

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Comedian Ian Karmel, with help from sister Dr. Alisa Karmel, opens up about the daily humiliations … read more

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  • humor
"You're a raw nerve in that era of your existence. Life hurts, and that isn't unique to fat people or to any one group, really. Pretty much everyone goes through some version of young-adult malaise. T…"

-Ian Karmel, T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People

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20. A Little Blood and Dancing

By: Tyler Parker

3.60

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It’s a tale as old as doomed romance, bloody revenge, fast food, and the voice of God. Welcome to … read more

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  • fiction
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21. Racing with Rich Energy

By: Elizabeth Blackstock

3.41

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Formula One is known for glitz and glamour, but lurking in the background are dark, and sometimes d… read more

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Sarah McCammon

4.21

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4.28

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