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. 2.
    Letters and Papers from Prison
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  2. 3.
    Four Quartets
    by T.S. Eliot

  3. 4.
    The Sabbath
    by Abraham Joshua Heschel

  4. 5.
    Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Shambhala Library)
    by Shunryu Suzuki

  5. 6.
    The Phenomenon of Man
    by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  6. 8.
    Orthodoxy
    by G.K. Chesterton

  7. 9.
    Waiting for God (Perennial Classics)
    by Simone Weil

  8. 10.
    I And Thou
    by Martin Buber

  9. 11.
    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Adams

  10. 12.
    In the Heart of the Seas (Library Of World Fiction)
    by S. Y. Agnon

  11. 14.
    Gospel of Thomas Annotated & Explained (SkyLight Illuminations)
    by Stevan L. Davies

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

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

  14. 17.
    The Epistle to the Romans
    by Karl Barth

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

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

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

  18. 21.
    Mount Analogue
    by Rene Daumal

  19. 23.
    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Annie Dillard

  20. 24.

  21. 25.
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    The Immense Journey
    by Loren Eisley

  22. 26.

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

  24. 28.
    ?
    Silence
    by Shusaku Endo

  25. 29.
    Spiritual Letters
    by John Chapman

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

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

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

  29. 34.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene

  30. 35.
    The Golden String: An Autobiography
    by Bede Griffiths

  31. 36.
    ?
    The Lord
    by Roman Guardini

  32. 37.
    The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
    by René Guénon

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

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

  35. 40.
    Markings
    by Dag Hammarskjold

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

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

  38. 43.
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    Collected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
    by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

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

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

  42. 48.
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    Crossing the Threshold of Hope
    by Pope

  43. 49.
    Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Flamingo)
    by Carl Gustav Jung

  44. 50.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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Untitled — 4 years 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




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