18 Best nonfiction books like The Dictator Pope by Marcantonio Colonna

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The Dictator Pope

By: Marcantonio Colonna

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy Could Pope Francis be the most tyrannical and unprinciple…

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1. Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II

By: Geoffrey Parker

3.95

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Spain’s be… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. 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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  • biography
  • history
  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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3. 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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  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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4. An Essay on the Principle of Population

By: Thomas Robert Malthus , Geoffrey Gilbert

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

As the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warnin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul

By: Maria Faustyna Kowalska

3.94

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

This bestselling book that birthed the Divine Mercy movement, one of the fastest growing movements … read more

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  • biography
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
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6. The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, cat… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction

7. The Spirit of the Liturgy

By: Pope Benedict XVI , Jon Saward , Joseph Ratzinger

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Considered by Ratzinger devotees as his greatest work on the Liturgy, this profound and beautifully… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
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8. The Power and the Glory

By: John Updike , Graham Greene

3.13

Format: 192 pages,

How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more

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  • religion

9. Last Man Standing

By: David Baldacci

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

When Web London's FBI Hostage Rescue Team is ambushed in a dark alley, Web is the only survivor. As… read more

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10. The Spiritual Combat

By: None , Lorenzo Scupoli , None , None

3.54

Format: 317 pages,

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11. The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

By: George MacDonald , Arthur Hughes

4.02

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the cas… read more

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  • audiobook
"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"

-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

"But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."…"

-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

12. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

By: Ross King

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelange… read more

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13. Saint Thomas Aquinas

By: G.K. Chesterton , Anton C. Pegis

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

G.K. Chesterton's brilliant sketch of the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas is as relevant today a… read more

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14. The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

By: Howard Pyle , None

3.57

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

In these wonderfully illustrated tales, renowned storyteller Howard Pyle carries us back to the enc… read more

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15. Kings and Queens of England

By: Antonia Fraser

3.76

Format: 85 pages,

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16. The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, #1)

By: Lloyd Alexander

3.92

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Taran wanted to be a hero, and looking after a pig wasn't exactly heroic, even though Hen Wen was a… read more

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17. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

By: Tom Holland

4.26

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more

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  • history
  • church history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"

-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

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18. A Thousand Ships

By: Natalie Haynes

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more

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  • audiobook
"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

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19. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

By: Ronen Bergman

4.40

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

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20. Agent 355

By: Marie Benedict

3.73

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more

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  • politics
  • audiobook
Cover of Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire by Eckart Frahm

21. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire

By: Eckart Frahm

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires    At its … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
  • audiobook
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22. The Wrong One

By: Dervla McTiernan

3.25

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

3 hours, 54 minutes In this new novella from the number one internationally best-selling author… read more

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  • audiobook
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23. The St. Gallen Mafia: Exposing the Secret Reformist Group Within the Church

By: Julia Meloni

4.19

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

In the mid-1990s, a clandestine group of high-ranking churchmen began gathering in St. Gallen, Swit… read more

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  • faith
  • religion
  • history
  • catholic
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24. Forty Reasons I Am a Catholic

By: Peter Kreeft

4.11

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

My title explains itself. But it's misleading. There are more than 40 reasons. In fact, there ar… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
  • audiobook
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25. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

By: Richard White

3.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
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26. Trump/Russia: A Definitive History

By: Seth Hettena

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The only comprehensive and definitive history by an acclaimed investigative journalist of the corru… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. Spiritual Warfare and the Discernment of Spirits

By: Dan Burke

4.45

Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition

Satan is always at work breeding sadness and anxiety while providing obstacles that prevent souls f… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
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28. The Habsburg Way: 7 Rules for Turbulent Times

By: Eduard Habsburg

4.26

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Few families in history are as renowned as the Habsburgs, one of the principal sovereign dynasties … read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
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29. Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church

By: John W. O'Malley

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The enduring influence of the Catholic Church has many sources--its spiritual and intellectual appe… read more

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  • history
  • church history
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
Cover of Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith by Joseph Pearce

30. Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith

By: Joseph Pearce

4.42

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Pope Benedict XVI will go down in Church history as one of the greatest popes. In this heartfelt de… read more

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  • biography
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
"The war on Christianity was also made manifest in the efforts to introduce neopaganism into the lives of the people. Joseph Ratzinger recalled that a young teacher in the village erected a maypole as…"

-Joseph Pearce, Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith

"One imagines that similar scenes of joy erupted throughout the world wherever two or three faithful Catholics gathered together. In contrast, the election of Ratzinger was greeted with grief and horr…"

-Joseph Pearce, Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith

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31. The Dictator Pope

By: Marcantonio Colonna

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy Could Pope Francis be the most tyrannical and unprinciple… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • church history
  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
  • audiobook

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4.26

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4.07

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Steve Coll

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