What to Read After Ascent to Truth
Readers who loved Ascent to Truth by Thomas Merton keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Ascent to Truth 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 Ascent to Truth
Truth And Tolerance
In His Presence
Sacred reading
The glory of the Lord
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Gītopaniṣad
Merton's Palace of Nowhere
Wellsprings
Zen and the birds of appetite
Conjectures of a guilty bystander
The Wisdom of the Desert
New seeds of contemplation
Contemplative prayer.
The Seven Storey Mountain
Thoughts in solitude
The rule of St. Benedict in English
Imitation of Christ
The Great Divorce
The Abolition of Man
Confessions
Orthodoxy
Surprised by Joy
The Screwtape letters & Screwtape proposes a toast
The Four Loves