24 Top nonfiction books like The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey (On Location Book 1) by Brian D. McLaren

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The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey (On Location Book 1)

By: Brian D. McLaren

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author Brian D. McLaren followed his love of nature (specifically, tortoises) all the w…

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1. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

By: Annie Dillard

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Innocence is a better world."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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2. Honolulu

By: Alan Brennert

4.08

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city. "In … read more

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  • audiobook
"Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead."

-Alan Brennert, Honolulu

"A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end."

-Alan Brennert, Honolulu

"Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect."

-Alan Brennert, Honolulu

"Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest."

-Alan Brennert, Honolulu

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3. The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

By: Richard Rohr

4.26

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

For Christians seeking a way of thinking outside of strict dualities, this guide explores methods f… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting...you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic."

-Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

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4. A Thousand Mornings: Poems

By: Mary Oliver

4.21

Format: 82 pages, Hardcover

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more

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  • nonfiction
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

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5. Did God Kill Jesus?: Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution

By: Tony Jones

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The popular Patheos blogger wants to restore the cross as primarily a symbol of God's overwhelming … read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Living Buddha, Living Christ

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa." -- Thich Nhat Hanh … read more

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  • nonfiction

7. Badlands (A Highway Quartet Novel #3)

By: C.J. Box

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

Grimstad, North Dakota - a place people used to be from, but were never headed to - has struck oil.… read more

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8. Why I Wake Early

By: Mary Oliver

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snak… read more

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9. Winterkill (Joe Pickett, #3)

By: C.J. Box

3.62

Format: 171 pages,

Joe Pickett's pursuit of a killer through the rugged mountains of Wyoming takes a horrifying turn w… read more

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10. Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

“Anne Hillerman is a star.”—J. A. Jance, New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bes… read more

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11. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

By: Douglas Brunt

4.23

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"

-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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12. Wholehearted Faith

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.42

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life con… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Many of us have found a renewed sense of possibility when we've realized how much of God's beauty remains to be explored — and that the life of faith is also a life of holy curiosity."

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

"It is nearly impossible to believe: God shrinking down to the size of a zygote, implanted in the soft lining of a woman’s womb. God growing fingers and toes. God kicking and hiccupping in utero. God …"

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

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13. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

By: Rob Bell

3.66

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"Forgiveness is unilateral. God isn’t waiting for us to get it together, to clean up, shape up, get up - God has already done it."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. "What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

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14. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

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15. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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16. The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

By: Kati Marton

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The “captivating” ( The New York Times ), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"This also serves as a clever way of neutralizing potential opponents. “Angela is very skilled at appropriating any issue as soon as it gains traction,"

-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

"Both Merkel and Obama read Yuval Harari’s somewhat ponderous Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for pleasure. And though their tastes are widely different, both find escape and relaxation in music."

-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

"Her description of a perfect day sounds perfectly ordinary: “I will sleep long, have a relaxed breakfast. Then I’ll go out for some fresh air, chat with my husband or with friends. I might go to the …"

-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

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17. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

By: Jane Goodall

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines--a global… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Of course, a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet: sheer selfish greed for shor…"

-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

"She says that people who wonder how you can have hope in seemingly hopeless situations, like a death camp, confuse hope with idealism. Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good. She says…"

-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

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18. 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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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Bitterroots (Highway Quartet, #5)

By: C.J. Box

4.08

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar-Award winning author. Former … read more

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  • audiobook
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20. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Ghosted: An American Story

By: Nancy French

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence

By: Diana Butler Bass

4.27

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of  Grateful  goes beyond the culture wars to offer a refreshing take on t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. Long Range (Joe Pickett, #20)

By: C.J. Box

4.41

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must investigate an attempted murder--a crime committed from a conf… read more

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  • audiobook
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24. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

By: Jamie Raskin

4.51

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the star… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If a person can grow through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too."

-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

"Memory requires active engagement with the complexities of the past. It is not an unthinking or passive process, like breathing or (for most people) sleeping. I have found that good memory, like good…"

-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

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25. Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women

By: Annabel Abbs-Streets

4.06

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A Smithsonian Top Ten Best Book About Travel of 2021 2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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26. Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

By: Diana Butler Bass

3.82

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The Wilbur Award-winning book Grateful is now available in paperback and with an updated subtitle. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World

By: John Philip Newell

4.35

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A leading spiritual teacher reveals how Celtic spirituality—listening to the sacred around us and i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. I Never Thought of It That Way

By: Monica Guzmán

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions. Partisanship is up,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans

By: John Pavlovitz

4.40

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Thou Shalt Not Be Horrible. Imagine for a moment what the world might look like if we as people … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The Good Book makes a really lousy hammer."

-John Pavlovitz, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans

"A God our brains and buildings can fully hold just isn’t big enough to be truly God. The moment we imagine a rigid box adequately capable of containing the who, what, how, and why of everything that …"

-John Pavlovitz, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans

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30. The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors

By: Tony Jones

3.99

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

"I have read a lot of books in my life, but never one like this... This captivating memoir will tak… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey (On Location Book 1)

By: Brian D. McLaren

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author Brian D. McLaren followed his love of nature (specifically, tortoises) all the w… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

19 Top audiobook books like The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey (On Location Book 1) by Brian D. McLaren

Transform Your Habits

Honolulu

Alan Brennert

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Douglas Brunt

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Wholehearted Faith

Rachel Held Evans

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Rob Bell

3.66

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9 Top audiobook books like Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence by Diana Butler Bass

Transform Your Habits

Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

Rachel Held Evans

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

Transform Your Habits

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

Sarah McCammon

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

Barbara Brown Taylor

4.40

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