The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
10 best books like The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University (Kevin Roose): Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Resistance, I Fired God: My Life Inside—and Escape from—the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult, Mudhouse Sabbath, The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism
Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions
| Author | Christian Lander |
| ISBN | 0812979915 |
They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday New York Times, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees.
They believe they’re...
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
| Author | A.J. Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0743291476 |
From the bestselling author of "The Know-It-All" comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible.Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally...
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0060859512 |
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity...
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many ways normal. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world...
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
New York Times bestselling author and king of “immersion journalism” A.J. Jacobs tackles his most challenging experiment yet: a yearlong mission to radically improve every element of his body and mind—from his brain to his fingertips to his abs.
From the bestselling author of The...
A Year of Biblical Womanhood
Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment--a year of biblical womanhood. Intrigued by the traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon their careers to assume traditional gender roles...
| Author | Anita Shreve |
| ISBN | 0316166588 |
Well, the beginning of Resistance wasn't bad but it all went downhill from there. This was my first book by Anita Shreve and despite the fact that I didn't like it, I'm prepared to give this author another try- hopefully her other works are better. Anyhow, I have many issues with this book, but I will just...
I Fired God: My Life Inside—and Escape from—the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult
| Author | Jocelyn R. Zichterman |
| ISBN | 1250026261 |
A compelling memoir and investigation into the Independent Fundamental Baptist church and its shocking history of religious abuse.
Jocelyn Zichterman was born, raised, married into, and finally, with her family, fled the Independent Fundamental Baptist church. Founded by...
| Author | Lauren F. Winner |
| ISBN | 1557253447 |
In her groundbreaking book, Girl Meets God, Lauren Winner described her path from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity. Now, with characteristic wit, intellectual sharpness, and passion for authenticity, Winner illuminates eleven spiritual lessons that Judaism taught her. By reflecting deeply...
The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0345391691 |
In our supposedly secular age governed by reason and technology, fundamentalism has emerged as an overwhelming force in every major world religion. Why? This is the fascinating, disturbing question that bestselling author Karen Armstrong addresses in her brilliant new book The Battle for God....
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
| Author | Linda Kay Klein |
| ISBN | 1501124811 |
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s purity culture has had on a generation of young women—in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.
In the 1990s, a “purity industry”...
| Author | Daniel Radosh |
| ISBN | 0743297709 |
For the overly sensitive and easily offended, I feel I need to point out that this book does not make fun of Christianity and the majority of Christians. However, if you are the type of person who will buy a candle because it "smells like Jesus", be prepared to have the stuffing mocked out of you!
Well,...
| Author | Hanna Rosin |
| ISBN | 0151012628 |
Since 2000, America’s most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school just outside the nation’s capital. Most of them are homes schoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. And God’s Harvard...
| Author | David Plotz |
| ISBN | 0061719951 |
At a time when wars are fought over scriptural interpretation, when the influence of religion on American politics has never been greater, when many Americans still believe in the Bible’s literal truth, it has never been more important to get to know the Bible. Good Book is what happens when a regular...
| Author | William Lobdell |
| ISBN | 0061626813 |
William Lobdell's journey of faith—and doubt—may be the most compelling spiritual memoir of our time. Lobdell became a born-again Christian in his late 20s when personal problems—including a failed marriage—drove him to his knees in prayer. As a newly minted evangelical, Lobdell—a...
| Author | Lauren F. Winner |
| ISBN | 0812970802 |
The child of a Jewish father and a lapsed Southern Baptist mother, Lauren F. Winner chose to become an Orthodox Jew. But even as she was observing Sabbath rituals and studying Jewish law, Lauren was increasingly drawn to Christianity. Courageously leaving what she loved, she eventually converted....
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
| Author | A.J. Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1416599061 |
For his first book, The Know-It-All, A. J. Jacobs read the entire Encyclopædia Britannica from cover to cover in a quest to learn everything in the world. In The Year of Living Biblically, he followed every single rule of the Bible -- from the Ten Commandments right on down to stoning adulterers.
Now...
| Author | Jim Fusilli |
| ISBN | 0826416705 |
Pet Sounds is, rightly, one of the most celebrated pop albums ever
released. It has also been written about, pored over, and analyzed more than most other albums put together. In this disarming book, Jim Fusilli focuses primarily on the emotional core of the album, on Brian Wilson's pitch-perfect...
