8 Top christianity books like Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels by Mary Gordon

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Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

By: Mary Gordon

3.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens …

If you liked the christianity plot in Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels by Mary Gordon , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

By: Hannah Whitall Smith

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The ChristianAs secret of a happy life guides readers to reply not on the shifting sands of emotion… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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2. When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today

By: Harvey Cox

4.50

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

In this urgently relevant, wholly enlightening discussion of modern moral decisions, the Harvard th… read more

Similar categories in Harvey Cox's When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today book and Mary Gordon's Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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3. The Great Divorce

By: C.S. Lewis

4.31

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce book and Mary Gordon's Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

  • christianity
  • christian
  • religion
  • theology
"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

4. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

By: Donald Miller

3.43

Format: 331 pages,

"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. I used to not like God because God di… read more

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5. The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

By: Rick Warren

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This book will help you understand why you are alive and God's amazing plan for you - both the here… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"You must begin with God."

-Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Familiarity breeds complacency."

-Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Knowing your purpose focuses your life."

-Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"God never does anything accidentally..."

-Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

6. 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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7. Living a Life That Matters: Resolving the Conflict between Conscience and Success

By: Harold S. Kushner

3.95

Format: None pages,

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8. The Echo Wife

By: Sarah Gailey

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, r… read more

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  • audiobook
"I became an alone-thing, more than I had ever been before."

-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

"No one would look at the seams that held me together and guess that they were scars."

-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

"He was relieved to have told me. He transmuted his guilt into my anger and now I was the one who had to carry it and he had the audacity to be relieved."

-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

"I'll be taking you out for coffee later this week, and you can give me all the details. In the meantime, I'll commence hating him just a little , in case I need material to seed hating him a lot."

-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

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9. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

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  • audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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10. Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

By: Jinger Duggar Vuolo

3.60

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kid… read more

Similar categories in Jinger Duggar Vuolo's Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear book and Mary Gordon's Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Replacement Wife

By: Darby Kane

3.60

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

A domestic suspense novel that asks, how many wives and girlfriends should disappear before your fa… read more

Similar categories in Darby Kane's The Replacement Wife book and Mary Gordon's Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

  • audiobook
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12. Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

By: Bob Goff

4.44

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

New York Times Bestseller! What happens when we give away love like we're made of it? In his… read more

Similar categories in Bob Goff's Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People book and Mary Gordon's Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

  • christian
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"Love isn’t something we fall into; love is someone we become."

-Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

"There’s a difference between good judgment and living in judgment."

-Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

"Sadly, whenever I make my opinions more important than the difficult people God made, I turn the wine back into water."

-Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

"What is it that you don't think you can do? What do you think is too big for you? Or too scary, or too risky? Sometimes God whispers it, and sometimes, he shouts it. Whatever the volume, I bet he's a…"

-Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

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13. Neighbors

By: Danielle Steel

4.13

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Meredith White was one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her actin… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Steel's Neighbors book and Mary Gordon's Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

  • audiobook
"The women who are being abused stay for the sake of the children, to not break up the family, and what the children go through as a result is worse than any divorce, and damages them far more than if…"

-Danielle Steel, Neighbors

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14. The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19)

By: Craig Johnson

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelat… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER? New York Times bestselling auth… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1) book and Mary Gordon's Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

  • audiobook
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16. Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

By: Savannah Guthrie

4.36

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Mostly what God does is love you. If we could believe this, really believe this, how different w… read more

Similar categories in Savannah Guthrie's Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere book and Mary Gordon's Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

  • christian
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"He doesn't even need words from us. Just a sigh, a tear, or a whimper. What an amazing resource we have in a God who already understands our whole history, our intricate emotional fabric, our every i…"

-Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

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17. Pretty Little Wife

By: Darby Kane

3.93

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

Debut author Darby Kane thrills with this twisty domestic suspense novel that asks one central ques… read more

Similar categories in Darby Kane's Pretty Little Wife book and Mary Gordon's Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

  • audiobook
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18. The Nanny

By: Gilly Macmillan

3.70

Format: 416 pages, ebook

The New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew conjures a dark and unpredictable tale of fa… read more

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  • audiobook
"Our move here seems to have robbed us of all those small, relaxed moments where nobody asks anything of anybody, except that they know they're loved."

-Gilly Macmillan, The Nanny

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19. Daughter of the Morning Star (Walt Longmire, #17)

By: Craig Johnson

4.40

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Another New York Times bestseller in the beloved Longmire series. When Lolo Long's niece Jaya be… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

By: Louise Penny

4.19

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

You’re a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Arma… read more

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  • audiobook
"As a diversion, few things were as effective as chocolate cake."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"Armand knew the terror of that first step. He also knew that the key to a full life was taking it. The trick wasn't necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"Isabelle [Lacoste] sat quietly for a moment, looking into the naked woods. Only in the winter was it possible to see both the forest and the trees. Homicide, she thought, was a perpetual winter."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"[Daniel and Annie] offered to stay on, but both Reine-Marie and Armand had said that it would probably be best if they returned when there wasn't a murderer among them. Which, in Three Pines, might p…"

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

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21. Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

By: Mary Gordon

3.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens … read more

Similar categories in Mary Gordon's Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels book and Mary Gordon's Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • catholic
  • audiobook

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3.61

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Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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Jinger Duggar Vuolo

3.60

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Darby Kane

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Mary Kubica

3.81

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Alice Feeney

3.66

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Shari Lapena

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