Recommendations from our site
“The book combines Singh’s attempts to visit or live amongst shamans in Indonesia and other places around the world with his scholarly insights into what shamanism actually is and how it has persisted around the world. One moment, he is covered in vomit after taking a hallucinogenic substance called yopo, the next, sharing insights shamanistic healing brings to how Western medicine treats patients.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction Books of Mid-2025
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding) -
Augustine of Hippo
by Peter Brown -
The Shadow of the Galilean
by Gerd Theissen -
On Christian Theology
by Rowan Williams -
Summa Theologiae, Questions on God
by (ed.) Brian Davies and Brian Leftow -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri
