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Common Boundary Magazine asked their editors and readers to select the most important spiritual books of the century. The following is a selection from their list:
The Mystery of Being by Gabriel Marcel	A Path With Heart by Jack Kornfield
On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross	The Way of the Pilgrim by Anonymous
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James	Psychology and Religion by C.G. Jung
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran	The Healing Gifts of the Spirit by Agnes Sanford
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse	A Course in Miracles
Shambhala Sun: Shambhala Sun asked nine influential leaders including Sharon Salzberg, Michael McClure, Berdnard Glassman, Andrew Weil, Sam Bercholz, bell hooks, Pema Chodron, Tim McNeill, and Sam Hamill to select, in no particular order, the most important spiritual books of the century - the following is a selection from their lists:
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki	Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda	The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Fruitful Darkness by Joan Halifax	Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell	Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castenada
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps	The Inner Voice of Love by Henri Nouwen
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton	The Raft is Not the Shore by Thich Nhat Hanh and Daniel Berrigan
The editors of World Magazine, selected the following as the ten best books of the century:
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis	Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
The God Who Is There by Francis Schaeffer	The Fundamentals by various authors from 1909-1915
The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn	Witness by Whittaker Chambers
Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen	Defense of the Faith by Cornelius Van Til
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien	The Collected Poems by T.S. Eliot
Philip Zaleski, editor of The Best Spiritual Writing series (HarperSanFrancisco) compiled a list of the ten best spiritual books of the century. The list was compiled based on the nominations of a cast of religion and spirituality scholars and writers including 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.
Black Elk Speaks by Black Elk	Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I and Thou by Martin Buber	Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
The Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot	The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki	The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Story of a Soul by Therese of Lisieux	Waiting for God by Simone Weil