What to Read After The Book
Readers who loved The Book by Alan Watts keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Book 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 Book
Freedom from the Known
Prometheus Rising
The perennial philosophy
Cutting through spiritual materialism
The way of Chuang Tzu
A new model of the universe
Journey of Awakening
Mastering the core teachings of the Buddha
The Way of Zen
The Wisdom of Insecurity
Tao
Zen mind, beginner's mind
Zen Buddhism
Zen Buddhism & psychoanalysis
On Having No Head
Zen effects
The archaic revival
I Ching
This is it, and other essays on Zen and spiritual experience
The doors of perception, and Heaven and hell.
The Tibetan book of living and dying
Become what you are
Zen in the Art of Archery
The Power of Myth