15 best-selling nonfiction books like A Good Life: 15 Essential Habits for Living with Hope and Joy by Pope Francis

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A Good Life: 15 Essential Habits for Living with Hope and Joy

By: Pope Francis

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

You are important. You are unique. You were created for a reason. Life can be hard, but no matter …

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1. St. Francis of Assisi

By: G.K. Chesterton , Joseph F. Girzone

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • catholic
"The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant."

-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

"The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god."

-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

"The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any pr…"

-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

"I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like…"

-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

Cover of The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, William Benham, Richard Challoner, D.D.

2. The Imitation of Christ

By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Paperback

Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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3. Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

By: Richard Rohr

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

This popular and bestselling book of the renowned Franciscan challenges people to move beyond the c… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

4. Euthyphro

By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaim… read more

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5. Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self

By: Richard Rohr

3.50

Format: 424 pages,

In "Falling Upward "(and in many of his other teachings), Richard Rohr talked at length about ego (… read more

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6. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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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7. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By: Charan Ranganath

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more

Similar categories in Charan Ranganath's Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters book and Pope Francis's A Good Life: 15 Essential Habits for Living with Hope and Joy

  • nonfiction
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8. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

By: James Patterson

3.92

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Different books speak to us at different times."

-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

Cover of Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere by Savannah Guthrie

9. 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

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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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10. Una vita nuova

By: Fabio Volo

3.47

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

Due amici su un’auto rossa attraversano l’Italia: musica da cantare, il vento tra i capelli, la man… read more

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11. The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

By: Robert I. Sutton

3.85

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Every organization is plagued by destructive friction—the forces that make it harder, more complica… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Reading Genesis

By: Marilynne Robinson

4.10

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller

13. The Curse of Pietro Houdini

By: Derek B. Miller

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving Wor… read more

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"Fear is the enemy of art because it hinders us from creation. Anyone who uses fear to stop an artist from creating is an enemy of life."

-Derek B. Miller, The Curse of Pietro Houdini

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14. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

By: Catherine Coldstream

3.71

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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15. Moonbound

By: Robin Sloan

4.09

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future a… read more

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16. Mercante di sogni

By: Sveva Casati Modignani

3.83

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Uno sparo rimbomba nell'atrio di un elegante palazzo nel centro di Milano e un uomo si accascia a t… read more

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Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

17. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Fauci's On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service book and Pope Francis's A Good Life: 15 Essential Habits for Living with Hope and Joy

  • nonfiction
Cover of God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible by Candida Moss

18. God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

By: Candida Moss

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meani… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps by Jon  Favreau

19. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps

By: Jon Favreau

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From your friends at Pod Save America  and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of A Good Life: 15 Essential Habits for Living with Hope and Joy by Pope Francis

20. A Good Life: 15 Essential Habits for Living with Hope and Joy

By: Pope Francis

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

You are important. You are unique. You were created for a reason. Life can be hard, but no matter … read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • catholic
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21. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • nonfiction

7 Top religion books like A Good Life: 15 Essential Habits for Living with Hope and Joy by Pope Francis

Transform Your Habits

The Imitation of Christ

Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.

4.32

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Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

Richard Rohr

4.53

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Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

Savannah Guthrie

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Reading Genesis

Marilynne Robinson

4.10

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

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Emily P. Freeman

4.01

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