7 best-selling biography books like Laughing at the Devil: Seeing the World with Julian of Norwich by Amy Laura Hall

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Laughing at the Devil: Seeing the World with Julian of Norwich

By: Amy Laura Hall

4.05

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Laughing at the Devil is an invitation to see the world with a medieval visionary now known as Juli…

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1. The Man in the Brown Suit

By: Agatha Christie

3.95

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her—a… read more

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"A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"You know I want you. You know that I’d give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"But his face should really inspire you with confidence, my dear lady. No self-respecting murderer would ever consent to look like one. Crippen now, I believe was one of the pleasantest fellows imagin…"

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

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2. Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus

By: Robert C. Gregg , Athanasius of Alexandria , William A. Clebsch

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Athanasius (c. 295-373) Bishop of Alexandria, spiritual master and theologian, was a major figure o… read more

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  • biography
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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3. The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when… read more

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4. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash a Revolution in Your Life In Christ

By: Peter Scazzero

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

What Are You Missing? Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can't be spiritually mature while re… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • theology
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5. The Book of Pastoral Rule

By: Pope Gregory I

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Recognized as the most thorough pastoral treatise of the patristic era, this sixth-century work by … read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • theology
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6. Revelations of Divine Love

By: Julian of Norwich , A.C. Spearing , Elizabeth Spearing

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Lovea remarkabl… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • theology
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7. White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response

By: Jacquelyn Grant

4.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Christology is especially problematic for feminists. Because Jesus was undeniably male and because … read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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8. The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

By: Neil Gaiman , Matt Wagner , Harlan Ellison , Mike Dringenberg , Malcolm Jones III , P. Craig Russell , Dick Giordano , Todd Klein , Kelley Jones , George Pratt

4.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Ten thousand years ago, Morpheus condemned a woman who loved him to Hell. Now the other members of … read more

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"Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

"Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

"[Dream] I do not want a grape. [Desire] I could make you want one."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

"I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

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9. Dream Country (The Sandman #3)

By: Neil Gaiman , Malcolm Jones III , Colleen Doran , Charles Vess , Steve Erickson , Kelley Jones

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The third volume of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. In each of… read more

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10. A Game of You (The Sandman #5)

By: Neil Gaiman , Bryan Talbot , Colleen Doran , Stan Woch , Dick Giordano , Shawn McManus , Todd Klein , George Pratt

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Take an apartment house, mix in a drag queen, a lesbian couple, some talking animals, a talking sev… read more

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11. On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans

By: Melito of Sardis , Alistair Stewart-Sykes

3.36

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

The Quartodecimans were early Christians who kept a single feast of Pascha on the Passover, maintai… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • theology

12. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

By: bell hooks

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more

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13. Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity

By: None

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

LGBTQ people are a gift to the Church and have the potential to revitalize Christianity. As an open… read more

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14. 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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  • christian
  • biography
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

15. Castle in the Air (Howl's Moving Castle, #2)

By: Diana Wynne Jones

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In which a humble young carpet merchant wins, then loses, the princess of his dreams Far to the sou… read more

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16. Blue Nights

By: Joan Didion

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more

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17. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When children begin to go missing in the town of Archer’s Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysteri… read more

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18. Let Me Tell You What I Mean

By: Joan Didion

3.84

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

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19. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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20. The Waiting

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.43

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The story begins with a mother's confession... sisters permanently separated by a border during the… read more

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21. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

By: Roxane Gay

4.43

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has edited a collection of essays that explore wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"I am a real survivor because I survived, even if some days it feels like I didn't survive at all."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"It is more like carrying something really heavy, forever. You do not get to put it down: you have to carry it, and so you carry it the way you need to, however it fits best."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

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22. Tunnels

By: Rutu Modan

3.75

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A race for the Ark of the Covenant finds an exploration into the ethics and world of the internatio… read more

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"In this confusing state of affairs when each fact is immediately contrasted with a counter-fact and everyone is branded a liar, when the word truth can be used only in apology and within quotation ma…"

-Rutu Modan, Tunnels

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23. How to Keep House While Drowning

By: K.C. Davis

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

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24. 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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  • christian
  • biography
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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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25. Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës

By: Isabel Greenberg

3.86

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

A graphic novel about the Brontë siblings, and the strange and marvelous imaginary worlds they inve… read more

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26. The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities

By: Kate Bowler

4.03

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've … read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
Cover of Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir by Anna Marie Tendler

27. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

By: Anna Marie Tendler

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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28. Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It

By: Jessie Daniels

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Named a Best Book of 2021 by  Kirkus An acclaimed expert illuminates the distinctive role that whi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. Holy Roar: 7 Words That Will Change The Way You Worship

By: Chris Tomlin

4.36

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to praise God? In the ancient world something extraordinary happened when God s p… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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30. Laughing at the Devil: Seeing the World with Julian of Norwich

By: Amy Laura Hall

4.05

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Laughing at the Devil is an invitation to see the world with a medieval visionary now known as Juli… read more

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  • biography
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

9 best-selling religion books like Laughing at the Devil: Seeing the World with Julian of Norwich by Amy Laura Hall

Transform Your Habits

Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus

Robert C. Gregg , Athanasius of Alexandria , William A. Clebsch

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Book of Pastoral Rule

Pope Gregory I

4.10

Transform Your Habits

White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response

Jacquelyn Grant

4.64

On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans

Melito of Sardis , Alistair Stewart-Sykes

3.36

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11 must-read religion books like Holy Roar: 7 Words That Will Change The Way You Worship by Chris Tomlin

Transform Your Habits

Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

Katie Davis , Katie Davis Majors

2.83

Transform Your Habits

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Heart of His People

Dean Merrill , Jim Cymbala

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

Priscilla Shirer

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

Dane C. Ortlund

4.52

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