What to Read After The New Man
Readers who loved The New Man by Thomas Merton keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The New Man 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 New Man
Ascent to Truth
Conferences
One River, Many Wells
The Root of the Righteous
The Wisdom Jesus
Prayer
Merton's Palace of Nowhere
Conjectures of a guilty bystander
Spiritual Direction and Meditation
Zen and the birds of appetite
No man is an island
Thoughts in solitude
New seeds of contemplation
Contemplative prayer.
The Seven Storey Mountain
Sailing alone around the room
The Practice of the Presence of God
Imitation of Christ
Confessions
Letters to a young poet
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The Great Divorce
Mere Christianity
Der Steppenwolf