TOP 100 SPRITUAL BOOKS OF 20TH CENTURY

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Adams, Henry. Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres

Agnon, S. Y. In the Heart of the Seas
Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous
Anonymous; Robert Powell, translator. Meditations on the Tarot
Anonymous; Marvin Meyer, editor. The Gospel of Thomas
von Balthasar, Hans Urs. 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 Hasidim
Camus, Albert. The Plague
Chapman, John. Letters & Religion
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. 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. Gandhi 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 of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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 Jr., Martin Luther. I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That
Changed the World
Knox, Ronald. Enthusiasm
Krishnamurti, Jiddu. Think on These Things
Leclercq, Jean. The Love of Learning and the Desire for God
Lewis, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia
Lewis, C.S. 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
Merton, Thomas. The Seven Storey Mountain
Muggeridge, Malcolm. Something Beautiful for God
Newman, John Henry. Taking on the Heart of Christ: 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. Swami Nikhilananda, translator. The Gospel of Sri
Ramakrishna
Reps, Paul and Senzaki, Nyogan. 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 Pier. 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
Traherne, Thomas. Centuries
Trungpa, Chogyam. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism
Weil, Simone. Waiting for God
Wiesel, Elie. Night
Yeats, William Butler. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi

Titles Order

Alcoholics Anonymous by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services

And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French
Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran

I and Thou by Martin Buber

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

An Autobiography: the Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G.
Neihardt

The Candle of Vision by George William Erskine Russell

Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster

Centuries by Thomas Traherne

Christ & Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr

Christianity and Culture by T. S. Eliot

Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats

The Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich

Crossing the Threshold of Hope by John Paul II

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos

Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

Enthusiasm by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox

The Epistle to the Romans by Karl Barth

Essays in Zen Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot

Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

God in Search of Man : A Philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Golden String: An Autobiography by Bede Griffiths

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna by Swami Nikhilananda

The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus by Marvin Meyer

A Guide for the Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher

I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th
Anniversary Edition (Martin Luther King, Jr., born January 15, 1929) by Martin Luther
King, Jr.

The Idea of the Holy by Rudolf Otto

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and
Nature by Loren Eiseley
In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching by P. D. Ouspensky

In the Heart of the Seas by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Journal of a soul by Pope John XXIII

Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord by Romano Guardini

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy

The Love of Learning and The Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture by Jean
Leclercq

Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism by Gershom Scholem

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Markings by Dag Hammarskjöld

Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism by Anonymous

Meetings With Remarkable Men by G. I. Gurdjieff

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams

Mount Analogue by René Daumal

My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood

Mystical Dimensions of Islam by Annemarie Schimmel

The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History by Mircea Eliade

The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation by Reinhold Niebuhr

New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton

Night by Elie Wiesel

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thích Nhất Hạnh

The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley

The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve
Letters by Pavel Florensky

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill

Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis

Raissa's Journal by Raissa Maritain

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times by René Guénon

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual
Growth by M. Scott Peck

The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry by Owen Barfield

Seeing the Form (The Glory of the Lord, v. 1) by Hans Urs von Balthasar

The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Silence by Shūsaku Endō

A Simple Path by Mother Teresa

Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge

Spiritual Letters by John Chapman

The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi by Ramana Maharshi

The Star of Redemption by Franz Rosenzweig

Taking on the Heart of Christ: Meditations and Devotions by John Henry Newman

Tales of the Hasidim by Martin Buber

A Testament of Devotion by Thomas R. Kelly

Think on These Things by Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Thirteen Petalled Rose: A Discourse On The Essence Of Jewish Existence And
Belief by Adin Steinsaltz

The Transcendent Unity of Religions by Frithjof Schuon

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Waiting for God by Simone Weil

The Way of All the Earth: Experiments in Truth and Religion by John S. Dunne

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings by Paul Reps

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki