What to Read After The Way of Zen
Readers who loved The Way of Zen by Alan Watts keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Way of Zen 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 Way of Zen
Zen in the Art of Archery
The Three pillars of Zen
Zen Buddhism
Everyday Zen
Cutting through spiritual materialism
Zen mind, beginner's mind
The Book
Tao
I Ching
The Tao of Physics
The Upanishads (Penguin Classics)
The Tibetan book of living and dying
Mystics and Zen masters
Taking the path of Zen
The Science of Enlightenment
Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
Not Always So
An introduction to Zen Buddhism
Separate Reality
The heart of the Buddha's teaching
This is it, and other essays on Zen and spiritual experience
The doors of perception, and Heaven and hell.
The dancing Wu Li masters
The Power of Myth