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Religious and spiritual writing spans millennia of human thought about meaning, transcendence and how to live. These are the texts worth engaging with, whatever your own beliefs.

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The Power of Now Eckhart Tolle · 1997 Editor's Choice Get it on Amazon →

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Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis · 1952 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
The Miracle of Mindfulness Thich Nhat Hanh · 1975 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
A History of God Karen Armstrong · 1993 Recommended See details →
A Burnt-Out Case Graham Greene · 1960 Recommended See details →
A Far Country Winston Churchill · 1915 Recommended See details →
A Letter Concerning Toleration John Locke · 1689 Recommended See details →
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1800 Recommended See details →
Before philosophy, the intellectual adventure of ancient man Henri Frankfort · 1946 Recommended See details →
Black like me John Howard Griffin · 1960 Recommended See details →
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo A. Anaya · 1972 Recommended See details →
Camino de perfección [por] Santa Teresa de Jesús Teresa of Avila · 1632 Recommended See details →
De Natura deorum Cicero · 1718 Recommended See details →
Doña Perfecta Benito Pérez Galdós · 1886 Recommended See details →
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin · 1952 Recommended See details →
Henry James Leon Edel · 1931 Recommended See details →
Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses Mircea Eliade · 1976 Recommended See details →
Ich und du Martin Buber · 1922 Recommended See details →
Life After Life Raymond A. Moody · 1975 Recommended See details →
Mein Weltbild Albert Einstein · 1934 Recommended See details →
Nanhua jing Zhuangzi · 1889 Recommended See details →
One-Dimensional Man Herbert Marcuse · 1963 Recommended See details →
Phänomenologie des Geistes Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1907 Recommended See details →
Reincarnation and the Law of Karma William Walker Atkinson · 1908 Recommended See details →
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism Richard H. Tawney · 1926 Recommended See details →
Revelations of divine love, recorded by Julian, anchoress at Norwich, A.D. 1373 Julian of Norwich · 1901 Recommended See details →
Roots Alex Haley · 1861 Recommended See details →
Round the Bend Nevil Shute · 1951 Recommended See details →
Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw · 1924 Recommended See details →
Saint Thomas Aquinas Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1933 Recommended See details →
Stepping heavenward Elizabeth Prentiss · 1869 Recommended See details →
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein · 1961 Recommended See details →
Tancred Benjamin Disraeli · 1830 Recommended See details →
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder · 1927 Recommended See details →
The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce · 1840 Recommended See details →
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom · 2003 Recommended See details →
The New Revelation Arthur Conan Doyle · 1918 Recommended See details →
The Problem of Pain C. S. Lewis · 1940 Recommended See details →
The Saint' everlasting rest Richard Baxter · 1650 Recommended See details →
The bright pavilions Hugh Walpole · 1940 Recommended See details →
The holy war John Bunyan · 1682 Recommended See details →
The philosophy of Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1843 Recommended See details →
The pursuit of God A. W. Tozer · 1897 Recommended See details →
The white goddess Robert Graves · 1920 Recommended See details →
This is my God Herman Wouk · 1959 Recommended See details →
Thérèse Desqueyroux François Mauriac · 1927 Recommended See details →
Totem und Tabu Sigmund Freud · 1913 Recommended See details →
Zukunft einer Illusion Sigmund Freud · 1928 Recommended See details →

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