Mere Christianity vs On My Own: Which Should You Read?

Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis · 1943 ★★★★☆ 4.4 141 pages · ≈ 2 h 37 m · Challenging

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says”

First broadcast as informal radio "talks" and later published as three separate books, The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality are presented together in Mere Christianity. In his…

On My Own Eleanor Roosevelt · 1958 241 pages · ≈ 4 h 28 m · Moderate

Story of her life after April, 1945 - her family, friends, campaign work, service in humanitarian and international causes. Includes photographs, anecdotes, personal assessments, and describes in intimate detail the…