12 must-read nonfiction books like Theology Of The Icon (Vol. 1) by Leonid Uspensky

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Theology Of The Icon (Vol. 1)

By: Leonid Uspensky

4.45

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

English (translation)Original French, Russian

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1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more

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"A couple of ounces ruled your life."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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2. On the Divine Images: 3 Apologies Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

By: John of Damascus

4.26

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

St John of Damascus wrote these three treaties Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images in respon… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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3. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

By: Saul Friedländer

4.24

Format: 870 pages, Hardcover

With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Esa sensación de extrañeza me parece que refleja la percepción por parte de las desventuradas víctimas del régimen, al menos durante los años treinta, de una realidad tan absurda como ominosa, de un …"

-Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

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4. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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5. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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7. 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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8. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
  • theology
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9. Lincoln in the Bardo

By: George Saunders

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more

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10. Frogs

By: Aristophanes , Arthur Sidgwick

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The Frogs (Ancient Greek: Batrakhoi, Batrachoi) is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristop… read more

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11. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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12. Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

3.87

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more

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"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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13. Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full color ebook device, and in rich … read more

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"The help will come,"

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"I don't want to hold you hand!"

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"Things never happen the same way twice."

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"And the feasts on the poop and the musicians."

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

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14. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper

By: Scott Hahn , Brant Pitre

4.60

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory exploration of the Jewish roots of the Last Supper that seeks to understand exactly wh… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
"The whole context of Jesus' bread of life discourse is centered on the Jewish hopes for the coming of a new Moses and the return of the manna from heaven."

-Scott Hahn, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper

"People were not to consume blood because "the life" or "the soul" (Hebrew nephesh) of the animal is in the blood. As Leviticus states, "It is the blood that makes atonement, by the power of its life.…"

-Scott Hahn, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper

"Some ancient rabbis believed that the manna was protological--that it had existedsince the very dawn of creation. As such, the manna was the perfect food, untouched by the sin of humanity's first par…"

-Scott Hahn, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper

"For, as any ancient Jew would have known, the Passover sacrifice was not completed by the death of the lamb, but by eating its flesh. Five times the Bible states that they must "eat" the lamb; five t…"

-Scott Hahn, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper

15. On the Incarnation

By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more

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16. A Farewell to Arms

By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more

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17. 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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  • religion
"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)

18. Letters from a Stoic

By: Seneca , Robin Campbell

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more

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19. 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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  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • theology
"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

20. Beyond the Pleasure Principle

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more

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21. History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner

3.94

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

22. On the Holy Icons

By: Catharine P. Roth , None , None , None

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Written in the midst of the iconoclastic controversy of the 8th-9th centuries, these essays affirm … read more

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23. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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24. 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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  • christianity
"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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25. Thinking Orthodox: Understanding and Acquiring the Orthodox Christian Mind

By: Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou

4.34

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

What does it mean to "think Orthodox"? What are the unspoken and unexplored premises and presumptio… read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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26. Hexaemeron

By: Basil the Great

3.97

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

The term Hexameron refers either to the genre of theological treatise that describes God's work on … read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
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27. Pope Peter: Defending the Church's Most Distinctive Doctrine in a Time of Crisis

By: Joe Heschmeyer

4.41

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

The papacy is no stranger to controversy. In many ways it’s Catholicism’s defining doctrine—but al… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
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28. Monastic Wisdom: The Letters of Elder Joseph the Hesychast

By: Elder Joseph the Hesychast

4.74

Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition

This collection of Elder Joseph the Hesychast’s letters, presented now for the first time in Englis… read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
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29. On Ends (De finibus bonorum et malorum)

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

3.87

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

De finibus bonorum et malorum ("On the ends of good and evil") is a philosophical work by the Roman… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"That which is in itself in accordance with nature, or which produces something else that is so, and which therefore is deserving of choice as possessing a certain amount of positive value—axia as the…"

-Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Ends (De finibus bonorum et malorum)

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30. Theology Of The Icon (Vol. 1)

By: Leonid Uspensky

4.45

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

English (translation)Original French, Russian read more

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  • art
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
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31. Coming Closer to Christ

By: Anthony Bloom

4.54

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

Best-selling spirituality author covers all aspects of confession and forgiveness. As a Russian Ort… read more

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  • faith

9 Top history books like Theology Of The Icon (Vol. 1) by Leonid Uspensky

Transform Your Habits

On the Divine Images: 3 Apologies Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

John of Damascus

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

Saul Friedländer

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Storm of Steel

Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius , None

4.27

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Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God

Scott Hahn , Kilian J. Healy

4.36

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Four Witnesses: The Early Church in Her Own Words

Rod Bennett

3.69

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Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper

Scott Hahn , Brant Pitre

4.60

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Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah

Brant Pitre

4.54

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