What to Read After Conjectures of a guilty bystander
Readers who loved Conjectures of a guilty bystander by Thomas Merton keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Conjectures of a guilty bystander 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 Conjectures of a guilty bystander
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Through the narrow gate
Contemplative prayer.
The Desert Fathers
Lost Christianity
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
Encounters With Silence
Spiritual friendship
The love of learning and the desire for God
Fern-seed and elephants, and other essays on Christianity
Merton's Palace of Nowhere
Thoughts in solitude
Zen and the birds of appetite
New seeds of contemplation
Ascent to Truth
Mystics and Zen masters
The Seven Storey Mountain
Spiritual Direction and Meditation
The Wisdom of the Desert
Dialogues with Silence
The spirit of the liturgy
Reaching out
The joy of the Gospel
Revelations of divine love (short text and long text)