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The 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century: A List

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. Black Elk Speaks
by John G. Neihardt
  
2. Letters and Papers from Prison
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  
3. Four Quartets
by T.S. Eliot
  
4. The Sabbath
by Abraham Joshua Heschel
  
5. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Shambhala Library)
by Shunryu Suzuki
  
6. The Phenomenon of Man
by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  
7. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
by Therese Martin (of Lisieux)
  
8. Orthodoxy
by G.K. Chesterton
  
9. Waiting for God (Perennial Classics)
by Simone Weil
  
10.
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 I And Thou
by Martin Buber
  
11. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics)
by Henry Adams
  
12.
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 In the Heart of the Seas (Library Of World Fiction)
by S. Y. Agnon
  
13. Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism/B-1
by Bill W.
  
14. The Gospel of Thomas: Annotated & Explained (Skylight Illuminations,)  
15. Seeing the Form (The Glory of the Lord : a Theological Aesthetics)
by Hans Urs Von Balthasar
  
16. Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry
by Owen Barfield
  
17. The Epistle to the Romans (Galaxy Books)
by Karl Barth
  
18. The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel
by Georges Bernanos
  
19. The Cost of Discipleship (scm classics)
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  
20. The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Albert Camus
  
21. Mount Analogue
by Rene Daumal
  
22. The Long Loneliness
by Dorothy Day
  
23.
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 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
  
24. The Way of All the Earth: Experiments in Truth and Religion
by John S. Dunne
  
25.
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 The Immense Journey
by Loren Eisley
  
26. The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (Princeton Classic Editions)
by Mircea Eliade
  
27. Christianity And Culture
by T.S. Eliot
  
28.
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 Silence
by Shusaku Endo
  
29. Spiritual Letters
by John Chapman
  
30. The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters
by Pavel Florensky
  
31. Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
by Richard J. Foster
  
32. Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
  
33.
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 An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
by Mahatma Gandhi
  
34. The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Graham Greene
  
35.
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 The Golden String: An Autobiography
by Bede Griffiths
  
36.
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 The Lord
by Roman Guardini
  
37. The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
by Rene Guenon
  
38. Meetings with Remarkable Men (All and Everything)
by G. I. Gurdjieff
  
39. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
by Thich Nhat Hanh
  
40. Markings
by Dag Hammarskjold
  
41. God In Search Of Man A Philosophy Of Judaism
by Abraham Joshua Heschel
  
42. Siddhartha: Literary Touchstone Edition
by Hermann Hesse
  
43.
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 Collected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
  
44. The Perennial Philosophy (Perennial Classics)
by Aldous Huxley
  
45. My Guru and His Disciple
by Christopher Isherwood
  
46. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (The Modern Library)
by William James
  
47. Journal of a Soul: The Autobiography of Pope John XXIII
by Pope John XXIII
  
48.
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 Crossing the Threshold of Hope
by Pope
  
49. Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Flamingo)
by C.G. Jung
  
50. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
  
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