15 best-selling nonfiction books like Outbreak: A Crisis of Faith: How Religion Ruined Our Global Pandemic by Noah Lugeons

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Outbreak: A Crisis of Faith: How Religion Ruined Our Global Pandemic

By: Noah Lugeons

4.56

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why did America do so badly?When the COVID-19 crisis reached America, the US had more resources and…

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1. Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.18

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingd… read more

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"Bein’ human means judgin’ all the time,"

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

"Do you understand what’s going on here?"

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

"Everywhere I look, I see something holy."

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

"Hah! The leopard does not change his shorts, my girl!"

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

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2. The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Not long after Tarzan claims his hereditary title of Lord Greystoke and marries Jane, their infant … read more

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3. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

By: Christopher Hitchens

3.96

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the maj… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • atheism
  • science
"Actually, the “leap of faith"

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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4. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

By: Various , Joe Layden , Rob Reiner , Cary Elwes

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.12

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork... ... a huge, rambling building, where masked figures and hooded … read more

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"I AM IMPRESSED. “I have faith."

-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

"You know, you're rather amusingly wrong."

-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

"-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere."

-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

"Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs Sincerely, The Opera Ghost"

-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

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6. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)

By: Robin Sloan

3.50

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and… read more

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7. The God Delusion

By: Richard Dawkins

3.90

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • atheism
  • science
"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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8. Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A Young Dwarf's Dream Corporal Carrot has been promoted! He's now in charge of the new recruits gua… read more

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9. Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Be careful what you wish for... Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who h… read more

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10. John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

By: David Wong

3.88

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too … read more

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"When a man plans, a woman laughs."

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

"John, let me make one thing clear,"

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

"My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy"

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

"No. We talked about this. I’m going home to eat a pie."

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

11. Wolf in White Van

By: John Darnielle

1.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move. Isolat… read more

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12. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

By: Ann Leckie

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once,… read more

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13. Atlas Shrugged

By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a des… read more

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14. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"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

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15. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

By: Nick Bilton

4.40

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedro… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It was time to bring in the people with the calculators."

-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

"This is one of those rare government buildings in which someone who uses a calculator for a living can wield more power than a person who carries a gun."

-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

16. How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

By: Adele Faber , Julie Adair King , Joanna Faber

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele F… read more

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17. Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 1 (Ouran High School Host Club, #1)

By: Bisco Hatori

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that … read more

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18. The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.01

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The Moon will soon return. Whether this herald… read more

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19. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Erik Larson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more

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20. Bullet Train

By: Kōtarō Isaka

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of… read more

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"My buddy Thomas helped me survive."

-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

"Then Tangerine hangs up. Nanao leans against the window and gazes out, gripping his phone like he's waiting for a call from a lover."

-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

"Tangerine can't quite place how he felt about insects when he was younger. He has memories of killing them wholesale, but also remembers crying over dead ones and giving them miniature funerals"

-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

"Then he (Lemon) leans in to Little Minegishi's corpse and takes hold of the back of the head, nodding it up and down like he's operating a puppet. "Lemon, you are a useful train," he says, doing his …"

-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

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21. Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #2)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.07

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic hu… read more

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"The place is of no concern to them. They've left it to fester. An informational dead zone. The abstraction doesn't penetrate here, by design. The dome rebuffs it. The family craved their privacy, the…"

-Alastair Reynolds, Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #2)

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22. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

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  • nonfiction
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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23. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot by Seth Andrews

24. Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot

By: Seth Andrews

4.49

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Seth Andrews wasn't an idiot during his thirty years as an evangelical Christian. He wasn't unintel… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • atheism
Cover of Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson

25. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

By: Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

26. Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

By: Anne Helen Petersen

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials—the cultural shifts that got us here, the press… read more

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  • nonfiction
"[Burnout] isn’t a personal problem. It’s a societal one—and it will not be cured by productivity apps, or a bullet journal, or face mask skin treatments, or overnight fucking oats."

-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

"It's always been implied that if you fail to succeed, you aren't passionate enough. But I no longer invest in work emotionally. It isn't worth it. I learned that every single person is expendable. No…"

-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

"The story of middle-class ascendancy is all about individual hard work. And no one wants to lose any of the hard-won benefits of that work, which helps explain the popularity of the Personal Responsi…"

-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

"The idea of a pension was not, and is not, extravagant. It's premised on the idea that some of the profits you help produce for a company should not go to stockholders, or the CEO, back back to longt…"

-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

Cover of The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit by Cecil Cicirello

27. The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit

By: Cecil Cicirello

4.40

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

Navigating the marketplace of ideas can be difficult when there is so much bullshit to wade through… read more

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  • atheism
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America by Dan Pfeiffer

28. Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America

By: Dan Pfeiffer

4.15

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

“BATTLING THE BIG LIE is an important read for anyone who’s wondering how the far right traffics in… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom by Andrew L. Seidel

29. American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

By: Andrew L. Seidel

4.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Is a fight against equality and for privilege a fight for religious supremacy? A constitutional att… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • atheism
Cover of Behind the Mormon Curtain: Selling Sex in America’s Holy City by Steve Cuno

30. Behind the Mormon Curtain: Selling Sex in America’s Holy City

By: Steve Cuno

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

“I MAKE A LOT OF MONEY AS A CALL GIRL” wasn’t the answer author Steve Cuno expected when he asked a… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Outbreak: A Crisis of Faith: How Religion Ruined Our Global Pandemic by Noah Lugeons

31. Outbreak: A Crisis of Faith: How Religion Ruined Our Global Pandemic

By: Noah Lugeons

4.56

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why did America do so badly?When the COVID-19 crisis reached America, the US had more resources and… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • atheism
  • science

5 Best religion books like Outbreak: A Crisis of Faith: How Religion Ruined Our Global Pandemic by Noah Lugeons

Transform Your Habits

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot

Seth Andrews

4.49

Transform Your Habits

American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

Andrew L. Seidel

4.53

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10 Top fiction books like The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Transform Your Habits

The Tale of Mr. Tod (World of Beatrix Potter, #18)

Beatrix Potter

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

Beatrix Potter

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (World of Beatrix Potter, #12)

Beatrix Potter

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.78

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