Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the YearReligion

Given by Publishers Weekly

Other Names: Publisher's Weekly Best Book, Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
83 Works 43,134 Books 1,177 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, Best Children's Book (2), Children's Fiction (3), Fiction (317), Lifestye (1), Lifestyle (77), Mass Market (10), Mysteries (6), Mystery (22), Mystery/Thriller (101), Non-Fiction (1), Nonfiction (386), Poetry (10), Religion (83), Religious Fiction (7), Romance (45), SF/Fantasy/Horror (9), Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror (79), No Category (49)
Years:
All, 2017 (4), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2011 (10), 2010 (10), 2009 (10), 2008 (15), 2007 (14), 2006 (10)
WorkYear
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald
2017
Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby by Candida R. Moss
2017
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
2017
The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege by Ken Wytsma
2017
The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage by Rob Bell
2014
Learning to Walk in the Dark: Because Sometimes God Shows Up at Night by Barbara Brown Taylor
2014
The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God by Peter Watson
2014
Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love by Anna Whiston-Donaldson
2014
Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions by Phil Zuckerman
2014
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
2013
The Historical David: The Real Life of an Invented Hero by Joel Baden
2013
Vatican Waltz by Roland Merullo
2013
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman
2013
When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over by Addie Zierman
2013
A Good and Perfect Gift: Faith, Expectations, and a Little Girl Named Penny by Amy Julia Becker
2011
Love Wins: For Teens by Rob Bell
2011
Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire at the Gates of Tassajara by Colleen Morton Busch
2011
Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World by James Carroll
2011
Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America (New Directions in Narrative History) by Craig Harline
2011
The God Upgrade: Finding Your 21st-Century Spirituality in Judaism's 5,000-Year-Old Tradition by Jamie S. Korngold
2011
Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life by James Martin
2011
As Far As the Heart Can See: Stories to Illuminate the Soul by Mark Nepo
2011
Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor by Jana Riess
2011
A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good by Miroslav Volf
2011
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle
2010
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
2010
Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest by Adam Elenbaas
2010
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold
2010
Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir by Stanley Hauerwas
2010
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
2010
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam
2010
The Bread of Angels: A Journey to Love and Faith by Stephanie Saldaña
2010
Hillel: If Not Now, When? by Joseph Telushkin
2010
Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference by Desmond Tutu
2010
Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom
2009
The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
2009
The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain by Scott Cairns
2009
The Future of Faith by Harvey Cox
2009
Judas: A Biography by Susan Gubar
2009
Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
2009
Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir by Susan E. Isaacs
2009
Muslims in America : A Short History by Edward E. Curtis IV
2009
Rashi by Elie Wiesel
2009
In Due Season: A Catholic Life by Paul Wilkes
2009
Who On Earth Was Jesus?: The Modern Quest for the Jesus of History by David Boulton
2008
Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne
2008
My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith by Benyamin Cohen
2008
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch
2008
O2: Breathing New Life into Faith (ConversantLife.com®) by Richard Dahlstrom
2008
Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses by Donna Freitas
2008
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer
2008
The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield
2008
Reasons to Believe: One Man's Journey Among the Evangelicals and the Faith He Left Behind by John Marks
2008
Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America (The Documents of 20th-century art) by Gustav Niebuhr
2008
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life by Kathleen Norris
2008
Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality by Martha C. Nussbaum
2008
Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire by Rebecca Ann Parker
2008
The Twenty-Piece Shuffle: Why the Poor and Rich Need Each Other by Greg Paul
2008
The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle
2008
American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion by Paul M. Barrett
2007
Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality and Spirituality by Rob Bell
2007
Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl by Craig Harline
2007
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs
2007
Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by Donald B. Kraybill
2007
How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now by James L. Kugel
2007
The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine
2007
Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite by D. Michael Lindsay
2007
A Jesuit Off-Broadway by James Martin
2007
Caring for Mother: A Daughter's Long Goodbye by Virginia Stem Owens
2007
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't by Stephen Prothero
2007
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
2007
The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything by Ken Wilber
2007
After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion by Robert Wuthnow
2007
Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith by Diana Butler Bass
2006
Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend by Bart D. Ehrman
2006
Gonzo Judaism: A Bold Path for Renewing an Ancient Faith by Niles Goldstein
2006
Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness by Kathryn Greene-McCreight
2006
Overcoming Life's Disappointments by Harold S. Kushner
2006
My Life with the Saints by James Martin
2006
A Jew Among the Evangelicals: A Guide for the Perplexed by Mark I. Pinsky
2006
Essential Torah: A Complete Guide to the Five Books of Moses by George Robinson
2006
Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish by Tom Shachtman
2006
Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? by Philip Yancey
2006

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