Philosophy · Similar reads
Books like Letters and Papers from Prison
Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer is about faith in extremity, resistance, theology. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Cost of Discipleship
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer · Religion & Spirituality
The Cost of Discipleship was published in Germany in 1937, four years after Hitler came to power and two years after Bonhoeffer had taken over the underground seminary at Finkenwalde.
Read the summary → - Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology
Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.
Read the summary → - Night
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Elie Wiesel · Memoir
Night is Elie Wiesel's account of his deportation from the Transylvanian town of Sighet in 1944 and his survival of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Read the summary → - New Seeds of Contemplation
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Thomas Merton · Religion & Spirituality
New Seeds of Contemplation is Thomas Merton's revised and expanded version of Seeds of Contemplation, which he published in 1949 when he was still new to monastic life.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
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