What to Read After Zen and the birds of appetite
Readers who loved Zen and the birds of appetite by Thomas Merton keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Zen and the birds of appetite 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 Zen and the birds of appetite
The way of Chuang Tzu
Living Buddha, living Christ
This is it, and other essays on Zen and spiritual experience
Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian
Buddhism, the religion of no-religion
Enseignements secrets dans les sectes bouddhistes tibétaines
Cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown
Zen in the Art of Archery
Religion and Nothingness (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture)
The sun my heart
In my own way
New seeds of contemplation
Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
Christ the Eternal Tao
On Job
The good heart
Grist for the mill
Meister Eckhart, the essential sermons, commentaries, treatises, and defense
The spirituality of imperfection
Merton's Palace of Nowhere
The supreme identity
The Yoga of Jesus
Zen Buddhism & psychoanalysis
Beyond thinking