Book awards: HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

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Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux by Therese de Lisieux
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G. Neihardt
The Candle of Vision by Æ
Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard J. Foster
Centuries by Thomas Traherne
Christ & Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr
Christianity and Culture by T. S. Eliot
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats
The Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich
Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul II
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion : With Special Reference to the XVII and XVIII Centuries by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox
The Epistle to the Romans by Karl Barth
Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
God in Search of Man : A Philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Golden String: An Autobiography by Bede Griffiths
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna by Swami Nikhilananda
The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus by Marvin Meyer
Guide for the Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher
I And Thou by Martin Buber
I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Idea of the Holy by R. Otto
The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature by Loren C. Eiseley
In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (Harvest Book) by P. D. Ouspensky
In the Heart of the Seas by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Journal of a soul by Pope John XXIII
Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Lord by Romano Guardini
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy
The Love of Learning and The Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture by Jean Leclercq
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism by Gershom Scholem
Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Markings by Dag Hammarskjöld
Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism by Anonymous
Meetings with Remarkable Men (All and Everything) by G. I. Gurdjieff
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
Mount Analogue by Rene Daumal
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
Mystical Dimensions of Islam by Annemarie Schimmel
The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History by Mircea Eliade
The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature (Library of Theological Ethics) by Reinhold Niebuhr
New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
Night by Elie Wiesel
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters by Pavel Florensky
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill
Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
Raissa's Journal by Raissa Maritain
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times by René Guénon
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry by Owen Barfield
Seeing the Form (The Glory of the Lord, v. 1) by Hans Urs von Balthasar
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Silence by Shūsaku Endō
A Simple Path by Mother Teresa
Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge
Spiritual Letters by John Chapman
The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi by Ramana Maharshi
The Star of Redemption (Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion) by Franz Rosenzweig
Taking on the Heart of Christ: Meditations and Devotions by John Henry Newman
Tales of the Hasidim by Martin Buber
A Testament of Devotion by Thomas R. Kelly
Think on These Things by Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Thirteen Petalled Rose by Adin Steinsaltz
The Transcendent Unity of Religions (Quest Book) by Frithjof Schuon
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Waiting for God by Simone Weil
The Way of All the Earth: Experiments in Truth and Religion by John S. Dunne
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
The World's Religions : Our Great Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings by Paul Reps
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

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This list was compiled by Philip Zaleski and published in November 1999. All books on the list had to be published in English for the first time in the twentieth century.