19 must-read nonfiction books like When One Religion Isn't Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People by Duane R. Bidwell

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When One Religion Isn't Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People

By: Duane R. Bidwell

3.63

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of the gifts and challenges of being part of two or more religious traditions at the…

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1. Biblical Literalism

By: John Shelby Spong

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A global and pioneering leader of progressive Christianity and the bestselling author of Why Christ… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • theology
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2. Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian

By: Paul F. Knitter

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • theology
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3. Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women

By: Rachel Held Evans , Sarah Bessey

3.87

Format: 216 pages, ebook

Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fe… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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4. Speaking of Faith

By: Krista Tippett

3.80

Format: 384 pages,

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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5. The Valkyries

By: Paulo Coelho , Alan R. Clarke

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic masterwork of spiritual tension and realization from Paulo Coelho, this powerful story of… read more

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  • spirituality

6. My Life With the Saints

By: James Martin

4.03

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year -- Winner of a Christopher Award -- Winner of a C… read more

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7. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

By: None

4.12

Format: 288 pages,

From the bestselling author of "The Know-It-All" comes a fascinating and timely exploration of reli… read more

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8. Truth and Beauty

By: Ann Patchett

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writ… read more

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9. The Case for God

By: Karen Armstrong

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which … read more

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10. The Portable Door (J. W. Wells & Co., #1)

By: Tom Holt

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Starting a new job is always stressful, but when Paul Carpenter arrives at the office of J.W. Wells… read more

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"Mr Tanner frowned at him, as though he was a spelling mistake."

-Tom Holt, The Portable Door (J. W. Wells & Co., #1)

"Being a really evil bastard isn’t just a job, it’s a vocation!"

-Tom Holt, The Portable Door (J. W. Wells & Co., #1)

"It was one of those moments when the moral high ground opens and swallows you up."

-Tom Holt, The Portable Door (J. W. Wells & Co., #1)

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11. This Bird Has Flown

By: Susanna Hoffs

3.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song—written… read more

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12. The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft

By: Diana Helmuth

3.76

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

A skeptic’s year-long quest to find spiritual fulfillment through modern Witchcraft, perfect for fa… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"It occurs to me that the energy in my body is the same as the energy in the red power lights, just a different current. What’s inside the office lights is inside me. It’s also what’s in the stars a m…"

-Diana Helmuth, The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft

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13. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. The Games of Enemies and Allies (Magic on Main Street, #2)

By: K.M. Shea

4.56

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

At night they’re enemies. During the day they’re friends. Only one of them is aware of this… My … read more

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17. The Lies of Vampires and Slayers (Magic on Main Street, #1)

By: K.M. Shea

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

By night, they fight in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse. By day, they are friendly next-door neig… read more

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18. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

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  • nonfiction
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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19. Leslie F*cking Jones

By: Leslie Jones

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

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20. These Precious Days: Essays

By: Ann Patchett

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in … read more

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  • nonfiction
"It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together."

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figu…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"People want you to want what they want. If you want the same things they want, then their want is validated. If you don’t want the same things, your lack of wanting can, to certain people, come acros…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"Without ever meaning to, my father taught me at a very early age to give up on the idea of approval. I wish I could bottle that freedom now and give it to every young writer I meet, with an extra bot…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

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21. 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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  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

22. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

By: Laura E. Anderson

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

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24. Nowhere for Very Long

By: Brianna Madia

4.11

Format: 304 pages, ebook

In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."

-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long

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25. Quietly Hostile: Essays

By: Samantha Irby

3.70

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more

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  • nonfiction
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

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26. Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

By: Annabel Abbs

3.92

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor’s A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, … read more

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"God, I think blasphemously, is in a sip of coffee."

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"I can feel Mother's furious eyes upon me, but the tug of the kitchen is stronger: my new books, the fresh perch gleaming in the larder, the trugs of field mushrooms and damsons and pippin apples stil…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"The smell of bruised apples reaches me of a sudden. And in that moment I am back in Miss Eliza's kitchen, rich with cooking odors: the nutty smell of roasting coffee berries, the syrupy scent of frui…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"But then, one bright morning, I walked out through woods of pine and birch. Foxgloves and wild clematis and briar roses were bursting from the earth. Birdsong shook the air. Swifts snipped at the sky…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

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27. Fated (Pack of Dawn and Destiny, #3)

By: K.M. Shea

4.37

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

I thought I hated not fitting in. Turns out I hate having a target on my back even more. Someone… read more

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"Greyson tilted his head and smirked in a way that used to kick up my self-defense instincts. “What?"

-K.M. Shea, Fated (Pack of Dawn and Destiny, #3)

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28. Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human

By: Cole Arthur Riley

4.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • theology
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29. The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1)

By: Sajni Patel

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Liya Thakkar is a successful biochemical engineer, takeout enthusiast, and happily single woman. Th… read more

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"You have to let it go before it completely consumes you."

-Sajni Patel, The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1)

"Do you think you can escape me so easily. What? Just drive off to Dallas and think I won’t find you?"

-Sajni Patel, The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1)

"The plight of a woman has to work to make money, but the purpose of a woman is to help her husband by taking care of the home and his needs…"

-Sajni Patel, The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1)

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30. Why Religion?: A Personal Story

By: Elaine Pagels

3.97

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do … read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • theology
"Times of mourning displace us from ordinary life."

-Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story

"I’d chosen Harvard because it was a secular university, where I wouldn’t be bombarded with church dogma."

-Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story

"Christmas lights, again, piercing like knives. The spirit of that season was never more remote than during those dark December days."

-Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story

"I knew that I could not possibly teach; the energy and clarity that teaching requires, which I'd always taken for granted, were gone."

-Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story

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31. When One Religion Isn't Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People

By: Duane R. Bidwell

3.63

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of the gifts and challenges of being part of two or more religious traditions at the… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • theology

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2.57

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3.87

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4.03

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