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
The Sun My Heart
Buddhism, the Religion of No-religion
The secret oral teachings in Tibetan Buddhist sects
Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown
Religion and Nothingness (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture)
Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian
Zen in the Art of Archery
In my own way
New Seeds of Contemplation
Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
Beyond Thinking
Christ the Eternal Tao
Zen Buddhism & psychoanalysis
The Yoga of Jesus
The Supreme Identity
Merton's Palace of Nowhere
On Job
Grist for the Mill
The Spirituality of Imperfection
The Good Heart
Meister Eckhart, the essential sermons, commentaries, treatises, and defense