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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
AnonymousAlcoholics Anonymous
AnonymousThe Gospel of Thomas
Balthasar, Hans Urs vonThe Glory of the Lord
Barfield, OwenSaving the Appearances
Barth, KarlThe Epistle to the Romans
Bernanos, GeorgesDiary of a Country Priest
Black ElkBlack Elk Speaks
Bonhoeffer, DietrichThe Cost of Discipleship
Bonhoeffer, DietrichLetters and Papers from Prison
Buber, MartinI and Thou
Buber, MartinTales of the Hasidim
Camus, AlbertThe Plague
Chapman, JohnSpiritual Letters
Chesterton, G. K.Orthodoxy
Daumal, ReneMount Analogue
Day, DorothyThe Long Loneliness
Dillard, AnniePilgrim at Tinker Creek
Dunne, John S.The Way of All the Earth
Eisley, LorenThe Immense Journey
Eliade, MirceaThe Myth of Eternal Return
Eliot, T. S.Christianity and Culture
Eliot, T. S.The Four Quartets
Endo, ShusakoSilence
Florensky, PavelThe Pillar and the Ground of Truth
Foster, RichardA Celebration of Discipline
Frankl, ViktorMan's Search for Meaning
Gandhi, MohandasAn Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Greene, GrahamThe Power and the Glory
Griffiths, BedeThe Golden String
Guardini, RomanoThe Lord
Guenon, ReneThe Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
Gurdjieff, G. I.Meetings with Remarkable Men
Hahn, Thich NhatPeace Is Every Step
Hammarskjold, DagMarkings
Heschel, Abraham JoshuaGod in Search of Man
Heschel, Abraham JoshuaThe Sabbath
Hesse, HermannSiddhartha
Hopkins, Gerard ManleyCollected Poems
Huxley, AldousThe Perennial Philosophy
Isherwood, ChristopherMy Guru and His Disciple
James, WilliamThe Varieties of Religious Experience
John XXIII, PopeJournal of a Soul
John Paul II, PopeCrossing the Threshold of Hope
Jung, CarlMemories, Dreams, Reflections
Kafka, FranzThe Trial
Kelly, ThomasA Testament of Devotion
Kerouac, JackThe Dharma Bums
King, Martin Luther, Jr.I Have a Dream: Writings & Speeches That Changed the World
Knox, RonaldEnthusiasm
KrishnamurtiThink on These Things
Leclercq, JeanThe Love of Learning and the Desire for God
Lewis, C. S.The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity
Lusseyran, JacquesAnd There Was Light
Maharashi, RamanaThe Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharashi
Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X
Maritain, RaissaJournals
Maugham, W. SomersetThe Razor's Edge
Merton, ThomasNew Seeds of Contemplation and The Seven Storey Mountain
Muggeridge, MalcolmSomething Beautiful for God
Newman, John HenryMeditations and Devotions
Niebuhr, Richard H.Christ and Culture
Niebuhr, ReinholdThe Nature and Destiny of Man
O'Connor, FlanneryWise Blood
Otto, RudolfThe Idea of the Holy
Ouspensky, P. D.In Search of the Miraculous
Peck, M. ScottThe Road Less Traveled
Percy, WalkerLost in the Cosmos
Pirsig, RobertZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
RamakrishnaThe Gospel of Ramakrishna
Reps, PaulZen Flesh, Zen Bones
Rilke, Rainer MariaDuino Elegies
Rosenzweig, FranzThe Star of Redemption
Russell, George WilliamThe Candle of Vision
Schimmel, Anne-MarieMystical Dimensions of Islam
Scholem, GershomMajor Trends in Jewish Mysticism
Schumacher, E. F.A Guide for the Perplexed
Schuon, FritjofThe Transcendent Unity of Religions
Singer, Isaac BashevisCollected Stories
Smith, HustonThe World's Religions
Steinsaltz, AdinThe Thirteen-Petalled Rose
Suzuki, D. T.Essays in Zen Buddhism
Suzuki, ShunryuZen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Tagore, RabindranathGitanjali
Teilhard de Chardin, PierreThe Phenomenon of Man
Teresa, MotherA Simple Path
Therese of Lisieux, St.The Story of a Soul
Tillich, PaulThe Courage to Be
Tolkien, J. R. R.The Lord of the Rings
Tomberg, ValentinMeditations on the Tarot
Traherne, ThomasCenturies
Trungpa, ChogyamCutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Underhill, EvelynMysticism
Weil, SimoneWaiting for God
Wiesel, ElieNight
Yeats, William ButlerCollected Poems
Yogananda, ParamahansaAutobiography of a Yogi

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