What to Read After The essential Rumi
Readers who loved The essential Rumi by Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī) keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The essential Rumi is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The essential Rumi
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
The conference of the birds
Poems
The Prophet
The Complete Poems
The Tibetan book of living and dying
Illusions
Collected Poems
A course in miracles
The Upanishads (Penguin Classics)
The Power of Myth
Zen mind, beginner's mind
I Ching
Peace is every step
Poems
The Essential Kabbalah
Collected Poems, 1934-53 (Everyman's Library)
The Enlightened Heart
Dream Work
Japanese Death Poems
A Return to Love
The art of happiness
The seat of the soul
Tao te Ching