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100
Best Spiritual Books
of the Twentieth Century
At the turn of the millennium,
HarperSanFrancisco, a leading publisher of religious and spiritual books, asked Philip
Zaleski, editor of the annual The Best Spiritual Writing series, to compile a list of the 100 best
spirtual books that had been published in English for the
first time in the Twentieth Century.
The list follows, arranged
alphabetically by author.
The top ten in the list are in boldface.
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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
Thérèse 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
Richard
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review and commentary on this list.
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