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The 100 Best Spiritual Books of the 20th
Century
In 1999, HarperSanFrancisco, a division of HarperCollins
Publishers, announced the 100 Best Sprititual Books of the Century, a list
compiled by Philip Zaleski, editor of
The
Best Spiritual Writing
series , senior editor of Parabola, and professor at Smith College.
The nominating panel included luminaries such as:
Thomas
Moore,
Natalie
Goldberg,
Rodger
Kamenetz,
Harold
Kushner,
Lawrence
Kushner,
Christopher
de
Vinck,
David
Yount,
Kabir
Helminski,
Helen
Tworkov,
Ron
Hansen,
Frederic
Brussat,
Joseph
Bruchac,
Huston
Smith,
Lawrence
Cunningham, and
John
Wilson.
The books are listed in alphabetical order, by author.
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Adams, Henry, |
Mont-Saint
Michel and Chartres |
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Agnon, S. Y., |
In
the Heart of the Seas |
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Anonymous, |
Alcoholics
Anonymous |
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Anonymous, |
Meditations
on the Tarot |
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Anonymous, |
The
Gospel of Thomas |
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Balthasar, Hans Urs von, |
The
Glory of the Lord |
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Barfield, Owen, |
Saving
the Appearances |
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Barth, Karl, |
The
Epistle to the Romans |
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Bernanos, Georges, |
Diary
of a Country Priest |
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Black Elk, |
Black
Elk Speaks |
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Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, |
The
Cost of Discipleship |
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Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, |
Letters
and Papers from Prison |
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Buber, Martin, |
I
and Thou |
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Buber, Martin, |
Tales
of the Hasidim |
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Camus, Albert, |
The
Plague |
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Chapman, John, |
Spiritual
Letters |
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Chesterton, G. K., |
Orthodoxy |
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Daumal, Rene, |
Mount
Analogue |
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Day, Dorothy, |
The
Long Loneliness |
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Dillard, Annie, |
Pilgrim
at Tinker Creek |
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Dunne, John S., |
The
Way of All the Earth |
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Eisley, Loren, |
The
Immense Journey |
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Eliade, Mircea, |
The
Myth of Eternal Return |
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Eliot, T. S., |
Christianity
and Culture |
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Eliot, T. S., |
The
Four Quartets |
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Endo, Shusako, |
Silence |
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Florensky, Pavel, |
The
Pillar and the Ground of Truth |
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Foster, Richard, |
A
Celebration of Discipline |
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Frankl, Viktor, |
Man’s
Search for Meaning |
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Gandhi, Mohandas, |
An
Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth |
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Greene, Graham, |
The
Power and the Glory |
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Griffiths, Bede, |
The
Golden String |
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Guardini, Romano, |
The
Lord |
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Guenon, Rene, |
The
Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times |
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Gurdjieff, G. I., |
Meetings
with Remarkable Men |
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Hahn, Thich Nhat, |
Peace
Is Every Step |
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Hammarskjold, Dag, |
Markings |
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Heschel, Abraham Joshua, |
God
in Search of Man |
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Heschel, Abraham Joshua, |
The
Sabbath |
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Hesse, Hermann, |
Siddhartha |
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley, |
Collected
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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Huxley, Aldous, |
The
Perennial Philosophy |
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Isherwood, Christopher, |
My
Guru and His Disciple |
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James, William, |
The
Varieties of Religious Experience |
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John XXIII, Pope, |
Journal
of a Soul |
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John Paul II, Pope, |
Crossing
the Threshold of Hope |
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Jung, Carl, |
Memories,
Dreams, Reflections |
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Kafka, Franz, |
The
Trial |
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Kelly, Thomas, |
A
Testament of Devotion |
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Kerouac, Jack, |
The
Dharma Bums |
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., |
I
Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World |
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Knox, Ronald, |
Enthusiasm |
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Krishnamurti, |
Think
on These Things |
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Leclercq, Jean, |
The
Love of Learning and the Desire for God |
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Lewis, C. S., |
The
Chronicles of Narnia |
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Lewis, C. S., |
Mere
Christianity |
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Lusseyran, Jacques, |
And
There Was Light |
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Maharashi, Ramana, |
The
Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharashi |
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Malcolm X, |
The
Autobiography of Malcolm X |
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Maritain, Raissa, |
Journals |
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Maugham, W. Somerset, |
The
Razor's Edge |
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Merton, Thomas, |
New
Seeds of Contemplation |
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Merton, Thomas, |
The
Seven Storey Mountain |
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Muggeridge, Malcolm, |
Something
Beautiful for God |
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Newman, John Henry, |
Taking
on the Heart of Christ: Meditations and Devotions |
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Niebuhr, Richard H., |
Christ
and Culture |
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Niebuhr, Reinhold, |
The
Nature and Destiny of Man |
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O’Connor, Flannery, |
Wise
Blood |
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Otto, Rudolf, |
The
Idea of the Holy |
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Ouspensky, P. D., |
In
Search of the Miraculous |
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Peck, M. Scott, |
The
Road Less Traveled |
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Percy, Walker, |
Lost
in the Cosmos |
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Pirsig, Robert, |
Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
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Ramakrishna, |
The
Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna |
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Reps, Paul, |
Zen
Flesh, Zen Bones |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria, |
Duino
Elegies |
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Rosenzweig, Franz, |
The
Star of Redemption |
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Russell, George William, |
The
Candle of Vision |
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Schimmel, Anne-Marie, |
Mystical
Dimensions of Islam |
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Scholem, Gershom, |
Major
Trends in Jewish Mysticism |
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Schumacher, E. F., |
A
Guide for the Perplexed |
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Schuon, Fritjof, |
The
Transcendent Unity of Religions |
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis, |
Collected
Stories |
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Smith, Huston, |
The
World's Religions |
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Steinsaltz, Adin, |
The
Thirteen-Petalled Rose |
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Suzuki, D. T., |
Essays
in Zen Buddhism |
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Suzuki, Shunryu, |
Zen
Mind, Beginner's Mind |
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Tagore, Rabindranath, |
Gitanjali |
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Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, |
The
Phenomenon of Man |
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Teresa, Mother, |
A
Simple Path |
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Therese of Lisieux, St., |
The
Story of a Soul |
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Tillich, Paul, |
The
Courage to Be |
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Tolkien, J. R. R., |
The
Lord of the Rings |
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Traherne, Thomas, |
Centuries |
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Trungpa, Chogyam, |
Cutting
Through Spiritual Materialism |
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Underhill, Evelyn, |
Mysticism |
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Weil, Simone, |
Waiting
for God |
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Wiesel, Elie, |
Night |
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Yeats, William Butler, |
The
Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa, |
Autobiography
of a Yogi |