6 Best history books like Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses by Régine Pernoud

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Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses

By: Régine Pernoud

4.20

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Using historical documents and translated by Regine Pernoud, Joan of Arc seeks to answer the questi…

If you liked the history plot in Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses by Régine Pernoud , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Doctor Zhivago

By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward

4.01

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more

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"Only the superfluous is sordid"

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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2. The Goblin Emperor

By: Katherine Addison

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a b… read more

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3. The Myth of Sisyphus

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

Similar categories in Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus book and Régine Pernoud's Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses

  • france
  • nonfiction
"A fate is not a punishment."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"there are truths but no truth"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"To will is to stir up paradoxes"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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4. Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World

By: Tim Whitmarsh

4.50

Format: 231 pages, ebook

How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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5. Sing, Unburied, Sing

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2017 A searing and profound Southern odyssey. In Jesm… read more

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6. River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon

By: Buddy Levy

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Conquistadorcomes this thrilling account of one of history's greatest … read more

Similar categories in Buddy Levy's River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon book and Régine Pernoud's Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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8. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

9. A World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity

By: Keith Hopkins

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this provocative, irresistibly entertaining book, Keith Hopkins takes readers back in time to ex… read more

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10. The End of the Affair

By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more

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"As long as one suffers one lives."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

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11. Cosmos

By: Carl Sagan

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousn… read more

Similar categories in Carl Sagan's Cosmos book and Régine Pernoud's Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses

  • nonfiction
  • history
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

12. Genuine Fraud

By: E. Lockhart

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many… read more

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13. All Over But the Shoutin'

By: Rick Bragg

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a violent, war-haunted, alcoholic father and a strong-willed, loving mother who strugg… read more

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14. A Hero of Our Time

By: Mikhail Lermontov , Paul Foote

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Timelooks… read more

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15. The Best We Could Do

By: Thi Bui

4.58

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from d… read more

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16. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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  • religion
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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17. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation book and Régine Pernoud's Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses

  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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18. Lovers at the Museum

By: Isabel Allende

3.48

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind Knows My Name comes a mesmerizing tale of tw… read more

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19. House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)

By: Erin A. Craig

3.91

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, … read more

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"You can’t change traditions just because you don’t like them."

-Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)

"Oh my darling Annaleigh, remember when you let the turtles go? Some things can't be kept." He cupped my cheek, and my tears trickled down his fingers. "Be brave. Be strong. You'll always have my whol…"

-Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)

"Flushed with starlight and moonlight drowned, All the dreamers are castle-bound. At midnight’s stroke, we will unwind, Revealing fantasies soft or unkind. Show me debauched nightmares or sunniest day…"

-Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)

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20. Loot

By: Tania James

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more

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  • france
"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."

-Tania James, Loot

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21. Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses

By: Régine Pernoud

4.20

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Using historical documents and translated by Regine Pernoud, Joan of Arc seeks to answer the questi… read more

Similar categories in Régine Pernoud's Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses book and Régine Pernoud's Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • medieval history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • catholic
  • medieval

6 Best religion books like Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses by Régine Pernoud

Transform Your Habits

Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World

Tim Whitmarsh

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Paradise Lost

John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

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9 Top fiction books like Paradise Lost by John Milton, John Leonard

Transform Your Habits

Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Transform Your Habits

King Lear

William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

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