20 Best nonfiction books like Bethlehem: Biography of a Town by Nicholas Blincoe

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Bethlehem: Biography of a Town

By: Nicholas Blincoe

3.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"[Bethlehem] brings within reach 11,000 years of history, centering on the beloved town's unique pl…

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1. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

By: Margot Adler

4.00

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

Now fully revised-the classic study of Neo-Paganism Almost thirty years since its original publica… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
"The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life."

-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

"When a person assumes that his or her revelation is the only true one, it only says that this person has had very few religious revelations and hasn't realized how many there are."

-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

"I have noticed that many intellectuals turn themselves off the instant they are confronted with the words witchcraft, magic, occultism, and religion, as if such ideas exert a dangerous power that mig…"

-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

"I have noticed that many intellectuals turn themselves off the instant they are confronted with the words witchcraft, magic, occultism, and religion, as if such ideas exert a dangerous power that mig…"

-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

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2. Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.12

Format: 339 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely—until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orpha… read more

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"Never on painter's canvas lives The charm of his fancy's dream."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

"The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

"Good-bye, and may you always see a happy face in your looking-glass!"

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

"If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

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3. Tartuffe

By: Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere's day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. … read more

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4. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction

5. The Witches of New York

By: Ami McKay

3.91

Format: 20 pages,

The beloved, bestselling author of The Birth Houseand The Virgin Cureis back with her most beguilin… read more

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6. Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.

By: John Mark Comer

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

You've heard people say "Who you are matters more than what you do". Does the Bible really teach th… read more

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  • nonfiction

7. Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.00

Format: 112 pages,

The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romanti… read more

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8. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more

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9. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

By: Reza Aslan

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of No god but Godcomes a fascinating, provocative, and … read more

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10. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

By: Ross King

3.26

Format: None pages,

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11. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

By: Michael Schur

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-… read more

Similar categories in Michael Schur's How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question book and Nicholas Blincoe's Bethlehem: Biography of a Town

  • nonfiction
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. —MAYA ANGELOU"

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

"Part of the wonder of being human is that we get to learn about the extraordinary levels of virtue of which other humans are capable."

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

"Our behaviors create deep grooves in our personalities, like a heavy chair forming impressions in a shaggy rug, and it becomes harder and harder to escape them."

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

"... There is no way to achieve a higher-level enjoyment from running, because there's no way to achieve any enjoyment from running, because there is nothing enjoyable about running. Running is awful,…"

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

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12. When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"

-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town

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13. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

By: Tom Holland

4.26

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"

-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

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15. The Fall of Númenor: and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one vo… read more

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16. Meet Me at the Museum

By: Anne Youngson

3.93

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Please be aware I am writing to you to make sense of myself ... When the curator of a Danish mus… read more

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"Our letters have meant so much to us because we have both arrived at the same point in our lives. More behind us than ahead of us."

-Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum

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17. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

By: Tyler Staton

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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18. Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

By: Rainn Wilson

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

**New York Times  Bestseller** Comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson, cofounder of th… read more

Similar categories in Rainn Wilson's Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution book and Nicholas Blincoe's Bethlehem: Biography of a Town

  • religion
  • nonfiction
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19. Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple

By: Scot McKnight

4.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

See how the Book of Revelation can be read as a book of discipleship , challenging Christ-followers… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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20. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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22. Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)

By: Ken Liu

4.56

Format: 1047 pages, Hardcover

The conclusion to Ken Liu's chronicle of the Dandelion Dynasty. Ukyu-Gondé. Stalked by foes a… read more

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"Trust is reward with trust."

-Ken Liu, Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)

"I like who I am when I'm with you."

-Ken Liu, Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)

"There's always a second act. Always."

-Ken Liu, Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)

"Glad to see your brain hasn't been entirely rotted by books."

-Ken Liu, Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)

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23. Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals

By: Ken Follett

3.86

Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition

“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civil… read more

Similar categories in Ken Follett's Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals book and Nicholas Blincoe's Bethlehem: Biography of a Town

  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
"I'm not a religious believer, yet despite that I go to church. I love the architecture, the music, the words of the Bible, and the sense of sharing something profound with other people. I have long f…"

-Ken Follett, Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals

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24. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire

By: Eckart Frahm

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires    At its … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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25. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

By: Alexandra Robbins

4.19

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

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26. The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

By: Nicholas Morton

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages  … read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Morton's The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East book and Nicholas Blincoe's Bethlehem: Biography of a Town

  • nonfiction
  • history
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27. Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament

By: Sandra L. Glahn

4.49

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Some Christians think Paul's reference to "saved through childbearing" in 1 Timothy 2:15 means that… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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28. Bethlehem: Biography of a Town

By: Nicholas Blincoe

3.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"[Bethlehem] brings within reach 11,000 years of history, centering on the beloved town's unique pl… read more

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  • history
  • israel
  • travel
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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29. Ottoman Odyssey

By: Alev Scott

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the O… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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30. Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome

By: Guy de la Bédoyère

3.55

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Joe Country (Slough House, #6) by Mick Herron

31. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

By: Mick Herron

4.30

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.   In Slough House, the … read more

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"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

14 must-read history books like Bethlehem: Biography of a Town by Nicholas Blincoe

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Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

Margot Adler

4.00

Transform Your Habits

When McKinsey Comes to Town

Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

Tom Holland

4.26

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John Le Carré

3.94

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David McCloskey

4.21

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Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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Charles Cumming

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