Religion
41 books
Must-Read 1689
A Letter Concerning Toleration
John Locke
Must-Read 2003
City of God
Augustine
Must-Read -400
Dao De Jing
Laozi
Must-Read 1923
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
John Donne
Must-Read 1536
Institutes of the Christian Religion
John Calvin
Must-Read -400
Mahabharata
Vyasa
Must-Read 1970
Mulamadhyamakakarika
Nāgārjuna
Must-Read 1957
Ninety-Five Theses
Martin Luther
Must-Read 2013
On the Freedom of a Christian
Martin Luther
Must-Read 1983
Repetition
Søren Kierkegaard
Must-Read 1956
Tanakh
The Hebrew Bible
Must-Read 1823
The Bondage of the Will
Martin Luther
Must-Read 1200
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Various (Arabic/Persian)
Must-Read 1844
The Concept of Anxiety
Søren Kierkegaard
Must-Read 1190
The Guide of the Perplexed
Maimonides
Must-Read 1640
The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis
Must-Read 2014
The Mahabharata (including the Bhagavad Gita)
Vyasa (attributed)
Must-Read 1984
The New Testament
The New Testament
Must-Read 2019
The Qur'an
The Qur'an
Must-Read 2006
The Ramayana
Valmiki (attributed)
Recommended 1988
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent
Elaine Pagels
Recommended 1834
An Inquiry Into the Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity
Jonathan Dymond
Recommended 1867
Bulfinch's Mythology
Thomas Bulfinch
Recommended 1474
Cur Deus Homo
Anselm
Recommended 1922
Dark Night of the Soul
John of the Cross
Recommended 1998
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
Bonaventure
Recommended 2002
Orthodoxy
Donald Fairbairn
Recommended 2004
Polynesian Mythology
Robert D. Craig
Recommended 2013
Practical Mysticism
Evelyn Underhill
Recommended 1926
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Richard Henry Tawney
Recommended 2017
The Ascent of Mount Carmel
John of the Cross
Recommended 1976
The Cheese and the Worms
Carlo Ginzburg
Recommended 1979
The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels
Recommended 1882
The Interior Castle
Teresa of Ávila
Recommended 1993
The Journey of the Mind to God
Bonaventure
Recommended 1904
The Life of Teresa of Jesus
Teresa of Ávila
Recommended 1964
The Psychoanalysis of Fire
Gaston Bachelard
Recommended 1959
The Sacred and the Profane
Mircea Eliade
Recommended 1973
Waiting for God
Simone Weil
Supplementary 1982
The Marriage of East and West
Bede Griffiths
Supplementary 1956
Transformation
Carol Berg