Deconstructing Evangelical Christianity
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation 4.27 avg rating — 36,184 ratings
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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
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Linda Kay Klein
4.17 avg rating — 6,080 ratings 4. 
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth 4.38 avg rating — 16,792 ratings
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Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again 4.39 avg rating — 16,971 ratings
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
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Kate Bowler
3.80 avg rating — 51,871 ratings 8. 
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
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Robert P. Jones
4.42 avg rating — 2,560 ratings 9. 
Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good
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Nadia Bolz-Weber
4.21 avg rating — 8,582 ratings 9. 
#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing 4.32 avg rating — 831 ratings
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White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
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Anthea Butler
4.27 avg rating — 2,105 ratings 
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Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions 4.24 avg rating — 10,817 ratings
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Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
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Nadia Bolz-Weber
4.33 avg rating — 13,869 ratings 16. 
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
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Sarah McCammon
4.19 avg rating — 5,866 ratings 17. 
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
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Jamie Lee Finch
4.04 avg rating — 1,605 ratings 17. 
PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire
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John Wigger
4.04 avg rating — 361 ratings 
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Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity
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Alice Greczyn
4.39 avg rating — 609 ratings 20. 
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally
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Marcus J. Borg
4.15 avg rating — 3,612 ratings 22. 
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion
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Marlene Winell
4.32 avg rating — 805 ratings 
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The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom
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Candida R. Moss
3.96 avg rating — 640 ratings 25. 
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Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
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Dan Barker
3.97 avg rating — 7,253 ratings 25. 
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name 4.24 avg rating — 5,906 ratings
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The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
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Philip S. Gorski
4.19 avg rating — 1,380 ratings 
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Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy
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Cait West
4.06 avg rating — 992 ratings 32. 
A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker
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Paulo Bitencourt
4.41 avg rating — 46 ratings 
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The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
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Shannon Harris
3.75 avg rating — 2,649 ratings 35. 
Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions 4.24 avg rating — 10,817 ratings
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The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church
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Gregory A. Boyd
4.21 avg rating — 3,236 ratings 38. 
Southern Evangelicals and the Social Order, 1800-1860
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Anne C. Loveland
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings 39. 
Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices
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Frank Viola
3.85 avg rating — 3,718 ratings 39. 
Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
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Peter Enns
4.25 avg rating — 4,251 ratings 45. 
How Jesus Saves the World from Us: 12 Antidotes to Toxic Christianity
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Morgan Guyton
4.22 avg rating — 119 ratings 46. 
I Got Two Wings: Incidents and Anecdotes of The Two-Winged Preacher and Electric Guitar Evangelist Elder Utah Smith
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Lynn Abbott
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings 47. 
Messengers: Portraits of African American Ministers, Evangelists, Gospel Singers and Other Messengers of the Word.
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David Ritz
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 47. 
The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
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Brian D. McLaren
4.10 avg rating — 1,216 ratings 
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Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
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Sarah Bessey
3.90 avg rating — 12,275 ratings 52. 
If the Church Were Christian: Rediscovering the Values of Jesus
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Philip Gulley
4.15 avg rating — 925 ratings 53. 
When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse
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Chuck DeGroat
4.37 avg rating — 2,464 ratings 54. 
Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith 4.20 avg rating — 513 ratings
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Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump
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Sarah Posner
4.05 avg rating — 904 ratings 56. 
Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions
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Cami Ostman
3.47 avg rating — 451 ratings 57. 
When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over
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Addie Zierman
3.99 avg rating — 2,133 ratings 58. 
To Earth We Have Returned: Poems on Religious Trauma
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Marie Thearose
4.38 avg rating — 29 ratings 
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Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next
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Bradley Onishi
4.31 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 61. 
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
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Catherine Nixey
4.07 avg rating — 6,286 ratings