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Favorite Spiritual Books

Selected by Beliefnet members.

Whether you are a spiritual seeker or you hope to deepen your experience in your own tradition, the following books may help guide you along your path. Throughout Beliefnet's discussion boards, members have talked about the books that have had the greatest spiritual impact on their lives. A multifaith mix of their favorites. (For basic religion books, click here.)




"I accept that [The 'Left Behind' series] is fiction. But if this series can bring others like me back to the Word and closer to God then this series has done a great service to humankind."




The Left Behind Series by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Talk about it)



The Promise by Chaim Potok



The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Talk about it)



The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (Talk about it)



The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery



Siddhartha by Herman Hesse



The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky



The Last Temptation of Christ by Nicholas Katzenzakis



"It is interesting how different are the books and writings which have the most meaning for us, and the paths which we follow."




Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn



Praying Like Jesus by James Mulholland



Jewish Meditation by Aryeh Kaplan



Meditation and Life by Swami Chinmayananda



The Knitting Sutra by Susan Gordon Lydon



Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki



The Prayer of Jabez by Bruce H. Wilkinson



The Cloud of Unknowing translated by William Johnston



Seeking the Heart of Wisdom by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield



"['The Spiral Dance'] happened to be one of the first I read years ago when I was initially looking into neo-paganism, and, to this day, every time I pick it up to look up something I find new revelations."




Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis



God in Search of Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel



The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda



The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith



The Spiral Dance by Starhawk



The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake



Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell



The Poetic Edda translated by Carolyne Larrington



The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks



God Is Red by Vine Deloria, Jr.



The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran



Be Here Now by Ram Dass



I and Thou by Martin Buber



The Bhagavad Gita translated by Eknath Easwaran (Talk about it)



The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley



Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill

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