The 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century: A List

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Compiled by Philip Zaleski, editor of The Best Spiritual Writing series. Based on nominations by Thomas Moore, Natalie Goldberg, Rodger Kamenetz, Harold Kushner, Lawrence Kushner,Christopher de Vinck, David Yount, Kabir Helminski, Helen Tworkov, Ron Hansen, Frederic Brussat, Jospeh Bruchac, Huston Smith, Lawrence Cunningham, and John Wilson. The top ten selections are listed first. For an interesting commentary on this list see: http://www.jewishgateway.com/library/books/articles

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  1. 1.
    Black Elk Speaks
    by John G. Neihardt

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  2. 2.
    Letters and Papers from Prison
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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  3. 3.
    Four Quartets
    by T.S. Eliot

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  4. 4.
    The Sabbath
    by Abraham Joshua Heschel

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  5. 5.
    Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Shambhala Library)
    by Shunryu Suzuki

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  6. 6.
    The Phenomenon of Man
    by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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  7. 8.
    Orthodoxy
    by G.K. Chesterton

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  8. 9.
    Waiting for God (Perennial Classics)
    by Simone Weil

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    I And Thou
    by Martin Buber

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  10. 11.
    Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Adams

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    In the Heart of the Seas (Library Of World Fiction)
    by S. Y. Agnon

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  12. 15.
    Seeing the Form (The Glory of the Lord : a Theological Aesthetics)
    by Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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  13. 16.
    Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry
    by Owen Barfield

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  14. 17.
    The Epistle to the Romans (Galaxy Books)
    by Karl Barth

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  15. 18.
    The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel
    by Georges Bernanos

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  16. 19.
    The Cost of Discipleship (scm classics)
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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  17. 20.
    The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Albert Camus

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  18. 21.
    Mount Analogue
    by Rene Daumal

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  19. 22.
    The Long Loneliness
    by Dorothy Day

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    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    by Annie Dillard

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    The Immense Journey
    by Loren Eisley

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  23. 27.
    Christianity And Culture
    by T.S. Eliot

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  24. 28.
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    Silence
    by Shusaku Endo

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  25. 29.
    Spiritual Letters
    by John Chapman

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  26. 31.
    Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
    by Richard J. Foster

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  27. 32.
    Man's Search for Meaning
    by Viktor E. Frankl

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  28. 33.
    An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
    by Mahatma Gandhi

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    The Golden String: An Autobiography
    by Bede Griffiths

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    The Lord
    by Roman Guardini

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  32. 37.
    The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
    by Rene Guenon

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  33. 38.
    Meetings with Remarkable Men (All and Everything)
    by G. I. Gurdjieff

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  34. 39.
    Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
    by Thich Nhat Hanh

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  35. 40.
    Markings
    by Dag Hammarskjold

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  36. 41.
    God In Search Of Man A Philosophy Of Judaism
    by Abraham Joshua Heschel

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  37. 42.
    Siddhartha: Literary Touchstone Edition
    by Hermann Hesse

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    Collected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
    by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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  39. 44.
    The Perennial Philosophy (Perennial Classics)
    by Aldous Huxley

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  40. 45.
    My Guru and His Disciple
    by Christopher Isherwood

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  41. 47.
    Journal of a Soul: The Autobiography of Pope John XXIII
    by Pope John XXIII

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    Crossing the Threshold of Hope
    by Pope

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  43. 49.
    Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Flamingo)
    by C.G. Jung

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  44. 50.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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Untitled — 1 year ago

oh dear, they left out R S Thomas poems (surely essential to any such selection)- then again, i suppose they’re collected with other subjects he covered