18 Top nonfiction books like The Great Courses: The New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman

The Great Courses: The New Testament

By: Bart D. Ehrman

4.21

Format: None pages, Audiobook

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Cover of The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins, Well-illustrated

1. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

By: Richard Dawkins , Well-illustrated

4.16

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Charles Darwin, whose 1859 masterpiece "On the Origin of Species" shook society to its core, would … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
"The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried"

-Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

"Of course they don't function as gills, but five-week human embryos can be regarded as little pink fishes, with gills."

-Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

"Incidentally, I'm puzzled why, with so much oxygen about, thing didn't burst into flames all the time. Perhaps they did."

-Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

"It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes."

-Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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2. Great Figures Of The New Testament

By: Amy-Jill Levine

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

Amy-Jill Levine, professor of New Testament at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, examines … read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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3. The Color Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area k… read more

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4. The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A late spring in 1142 brings dismay to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, for there may be no… read more

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"In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly."

-Ellis Peters, The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)

"Questions are as supple as willow wands, it's easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it."

-Ellis Peters, The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)

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5. The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem

By: John Dominic Crossan , Marcus J. Borg

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan reveal a radical & little-known Jesus. As … read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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6. The Natural History of Religion

By: David Hume

4.08

Format: 31 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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7. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

By: Colin Woodard

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The inspiration for the NBC series Crossbones. In the early eighteenth century a number of the grea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. The Dead Sea Scrolls

By: Gary A. Rendsburg

4.06

Format: None pages,

The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in the caves of Qumran could be considered the most remarkabl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history

9. History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev (The Great Courses, Course No. 8380)

By: None

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Audio CD

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10. American Religious History

By: Patrick N. Allitt

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Audio CD

Join historian Patrick N. Allitt in exploring the story of religious life in America from the first… read more

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11. Science and Religion (Great Courses, #4691)

By: Lawrence M. Principe

3.21

Format: 215 pages, Audio CD

Twelve 30-minute lectures by Professor Lawrence M. Principe on the relation between science and rel… read more

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12. The Old Testament (Great Courses, #653)

By: Amy-Jill Levine

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

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13. The Apostle Paul

By: Luke Timothy Johnson

3.50

Format: None pages,

Coming to grips with Christianity means coming to grips with Paul. There is no figure aside from Je… read more

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14. The Story of Human Language

By: None

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Audiobook

"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more

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15. The Dispatcher

By: John Scalzi , Zachary Quinto

4.57

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 2 hours and 18 minutes One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible t… read more

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16. A Night to Remember

By: Walter Lord , Nathaniel Philbrick

3.67

Format: 208 pages,

The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition w… read more

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17. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

By: David McCullough

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid

18. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

By: Stuart A. Reid

4.40

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation by Jon Ward

19. Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

By: Jon Ward

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two dec… read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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20. Roadkill

By: Dennis E. Taylor

4.09

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

Three 20-somethings are all that stands between an otherworldly threat and the survival of Earth in… read more

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21. Cursed Bread

By: Sophie Mackintosh

3.28

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more

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"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

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22. Understanding the Old Testament

By: Robert D. Miller

4.11

Format: 285 pages, Unbound

The Old Testament is one of the foundational texts of Western civilization, and is among the most i… read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
Cover of Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.04

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

Cover of Gnosticism: From Nag Hammadi to the Gospel of Judas by David Brakke

24. Gnosticism: From Nag Hammadi to the Gospel of Judas

By: David Brakke

4.15

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 12 hours and 19 minutes Gnosticism, one of the most fascinating and perplexing… read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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25. How the Earth Works

By: Michael E. Wysession

4.24

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

How the Earth Works takes you on an astonishing journey through time and space. In 48 lectures, you… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon by William L. Davis

26. Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon

By: William L. Davis

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book … read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of All Things New: Rethinking Sin, Salvation, and Everything in Between by Fiona Givens

27. All Things New: Rethinking Sin, Salvation, and Everything in Between

By: Fiona Givens

4.59

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert MacFarlane has written that "language does not just register experience, it produces it." Ou… read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
Cover of Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

28. Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

3.87

Format: 13 pages, Paperback

Step into the real world of the spy with this detailed and unforgettable tour of the millennia-long… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Our side has agents. Their side has spies."

-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

"Espionage is the world's second oldest profession."

-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

"Good tradecraft keeps espionage routine and boring."

-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

"You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears."

-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

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29. Understanding the New Testament

By: David Brakke

3.94

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

The New Testament is a fascinating book - the canonical root of Christian history and theology. Yet… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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30. Any Resemblance to a Coincidence Is Accidental

By: Stephen C. Bird

2.76

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

(281 Word Synopsis) 1. Noloso Chushingura returns to the wretchedness of Mucha Nieve, Nueva Jork an… read more

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31. The Great Courses: The New Testament

By: Bart D. Ehrman

4.21

Format: None pages, Audiobook

None read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
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18 Best history books like The Great Courses: The New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman

Transform Your Habits

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Richard Dawkins , Well-illustrated

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Great Figures Of The New Testament

Amy-Jill Levine

3.40

Transform Your Habits

The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem

John Dominic Crossan , Marcus J. Borg

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Natural History of Religion

David Hume

4.08

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16 Top classics books like The Natural History of Religion by David Hume

Transform Your Habits

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

Transform Your Habits

L'arte di essere felici

Seneca , Mario Scaffidi Abbate

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone

Immanuel Kant , None , None , None

3.75

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