12 best-selling christianity books like Beyond the Shadowlands: C. S. Lewis on Heaven and Hell by Wayne Martindale

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Beyond the Shadowlands: C. S. Lewis on Heaven and Hell

By: Wayne Martindale

4.16

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Those who know Lewis's work will enjoy Martindale's thorough examination of the powerful images of …

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1. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

By: Malcolm Gladwell

3.97

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

In his #1 bestselling books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell has explored t… read more

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"Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness."

-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

"It's challenging, it's not hopeless. You have to come up with something. You have to figure out a way to help them, because people must have hope to live."

-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

"Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty."

-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

"A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down."

-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

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2. Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis's Chronicles

By: Joe Rigney

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In Live Like a Narnian Joe Rigney shows that Owen Barfield was right—What C.S. Lewis thought about … read more

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  • christianity
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3. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more

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4. 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

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"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

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5. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.27

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more

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"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

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6. The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.05

Format: 221 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventure NARNIA...where the wo… read more

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"this is a book about something"

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

"It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake."

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

"No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice."

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

"Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations."

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

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7. Mere Christianity

By: C.S. Lewis

4.36

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

In the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explor… read more

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"The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God."

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker."

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him."

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose."

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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8. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

By: Kate Bowler

3.80

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of… read more

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"I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"I failed to love what was present and decided to love what was possible instead."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

9. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

By: Candice Millard

4.24

Format: None pages,

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Dou… read more

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10. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

11. The Abolition of Man

By: C.S. Lewis

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more

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12. The Screwtape Letters

By: C.S. Lewis

4.27

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable Answer C.S. Lewis’s T… read more

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"It is always the novice who exaggerates."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"I do not expect old heads on young shoulders."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

13. Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

By: C.S. Lewis

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

"We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now a… read more

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14. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.00

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more

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"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

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15. A Grief Observed

By: C.S. Lewis

4.22

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 … read more

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"Time itself is one more name for death."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"The death of a beloved is an amputation."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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16. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

By: Beth Moore

4.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more

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"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

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17. The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom

By: Andrew Peterson

4.49

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

There’s a strong biblical connection between people and trees. They both come from dirt. They’re bo… read more

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18. The Problem of Pain

By: C.S. Lewis

4.13

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful… read more

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"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

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19. No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

By: Kate Bowler

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do … read more

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"We live and we are loved and we are gone."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"Nothing will exempt me from the pain of being human."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"People say carpe diem. I mean, yes, unless you need a nap."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"I feel a spark of horror each time I remember it: we come undone."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

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20. Deacons: How They Serve and Strengthen the Church (9Marks: Building Healthy Churches)

By: Matt Smethurst

4.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

How Can Deacons Mobilize Service in the Church? Deacons are essential to a church’s health—yet conf… read more

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21. Beyond the Shadowlands: C. S. Lewis on Heaven and Hell

By: Wayne Martindale

4.16

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Those who know Lewis's work will enjoy Martindale's thorough examination of the powerful images of … read more

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3.97

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Joe Rigney

4.40

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4.27

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4.15

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4.26

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