Top 100 Sprirtual Books Named
HarperCollins Publishers has named its list of the
"100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century" (20th century that is). To see the
full list, see below or download this PDF.
For those of you who have heard of C.S. Lewis and possibly read his series
The Chronicles of Narnia (which made the list), we would like
to offer another book by Lewis which made the list: Mere Christianity.
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The 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century
Compiled by Philip Zaleski, editor of
The Best Spiritual Writing series.
(Bold titles on the list are within the top ten.)
| Adams, Henry, Mont-Saint Michel & Chartres Agnon, S. Y. | In the Heart of the Seas |
| Anonymous | Alcoholics Anonymous |
| Anonymous | The Gospel of Thomas |
| Balthasar, Hans Urs von | The Glory of the Lord |
| Barfield, Owen | Saving the Appearances |
| Barth, Karl | The Epistle to the Romans |
| Bernanos, Georges | Diary of a Country Priest |
| Black Elk | Black Elk Speaks |
| Bonhoeffer, Dietrich | The Cost of Discipleship |
| Bonhoeffer, Dietrich | Letters and Papers from Prison |
| Buber, Martin | I and Thou |
| Buber, Martin | Tales of the Hasidim |
| Camus, Albert | The Plague |
| Chapman, John | Spiritual Letters |
| Chesterton, G. K. | Orthodoxy |
| Daumal, Rene | Mount Analogue |
| Day, Dorothy | The Long Loneliness |
| Dillard, Annie | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
| Dunne, John S. | The Way of All the Earth |
| Eisley, Loren | The Immense Journey |
| Eliade, Mircea | The Myth of Eternal Return |
| Eliot, T. S. | Christianity and Culture |
| Eliot, T. S. | The Four Quartets |
| Endo, Shusako | Silence |
| Florensky, Pavel | The Pillar and the Ground of Truth |
| Foster, Richard | A Celebration of Discipline |
| Frankl, Viktor | Man's Search for Meaning |
| Gandhi, Mohandas | An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth |
| Greene, Graham | The Power and the Glory |
| Griffiths, Bede | The Golden String |
| Guardini, Romano | The Lord |
| Guenon, Rene | The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times |
| Gurdjieff, G. I. | Meetings with Remarkable Men |
| Hahn, Thich Nhat | Peace Is Every Step |
| Hammarskjold, Dag | Markings |
| Heschel, Abraham Joshua | God in Search of Man |
| Heschel, Abraham Joshua | The Sabbath |
| Hesse, Hermann | Siddhartha |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Collected Poems |
| Huxley, Aldous | The Perennial Philosophy |
| Isherwood, Christopher | My Guru and His Disciple |
| James, William | The Varieties of Religious Experience |
| John XXIII, Pope | Journal of a Soul |
| John Paul II, Pope | Crossing the Threshold of Hope |
| Jung, Carl | Memories, Dreams, Reflections |
| Kafka, Franz | The Trial |
| Kelly, Thomas | A Testament of Devotion |
| Kerouac, Jack | The Dharma Bums |
| King, Martin Luther, Jr. | I Have a Dream: Writings & Speeches That Changed the World |
| Knox, Ronald | Enthusiasm |
| Krishnamurti | Think on These Things |
| Leclercq, Jean | The Love of Learning and the Desire for God |
| Lewis, C. S. | The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity |
| Lusseyran, Jacques | And There Was Light |
| Maharashi, Ramana | The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharashi |
| Malcolm X | The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
| Maritain, Raissa | Journals |
| Maugham, W. Somerset | The Razor's Edge |
| Merton, Thomas | New Seeds of Contemplation and The Seven Storey Mountain |
| Muggeridge, Malcolm | Something Beautiful for God |
| Newman, John Henry | Meditations and Devotions |
| Niebuhr, Richard H. | Christ and Culture |
| Niebuhr, Reinhold | The Nature and Destiny of Man |
| O'Connor, Flannery | Wise Blood |
| Otto, Rudolf | The Idea of the Holy |
| Ouspensky, P. D. | In Search of the Miraculous |
| Peck, M. Scott | The Road Less Traveled |
| Percy, Walker | Lost in the Cosmos |
| Pirsig, Robert | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| Ramakrishna | The Gospel of Ramakrishna |
| Reps, Paul | Zen Flesh, Zen Bones |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria | Duino Elegies |
| Rosenzweig, Franz | The Star of Redemption |
| Russell, George William | The Candle of Vision |
| Schimmel, Anne-Marie | Mystical Dimensions of Islam |
| Scholem, Gershom | Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism |
| Schumacher, E. F. | A Guide for the Perplexed |
| Schuon, Fritjof | The Transcendent Unity of Religions |
| Singer, Isaac Bashevis | Collected Stories |
| Smith, Huston | The World's Religions |
| Steinsaltz, Adin | The Thirteen-Petalled Rose |
| Suzuki, D. T. | Essays in Zen Buddhism |
| Suzuki, Shunryu | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind |
| Tagore, Rabindranath | Gitanjali |
| Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre | The Phenomenon of Man |
| Teresa, Mother | A Simple Path |
| Therese of Lisieux, St. | The Story of a Soul |
| Tillich, Paul | The Courage to Be |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. | The Lord of the Rings |
| Tomberg, Valentin | Meditations on the Tarot |
| Traherne, Thomas | Centuries |
| Trungpa, Chogyam | Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism |
| Underhill, Evelyn | Mysticism |
| Weil, Simone | Waiting for God |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night |
| Yeats, William Butler | Collected Poems |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa | Autobiography of a Yogi |
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