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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary
Robert Alter · 518 pages
One of Newsweek’s Best Books of the Year and winner of the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement. A cornerstone of the scriptural canon, the Book of Psalms has been a source of solace and joy for countless readers over millennia. This timeless poetry is beautifully wrought by a scholar whose translation of the Five Books of Moses was hailed as a “godsend” by Seamus Heaney and a “masterpi
The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara
Santideva · 224 pages
The Way of Chuang Tzu
Thomas Merton, Zhuangzi · 159 pages
Dark Night of the Soul
San Juan de la Cruz · 208 pages
Bhagavad Gita
Barbara Stoler Miller, Anonymous
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran · 107 pages
Reflections by the Lebanese poet, mystic, and painter on such subjects as love, marriage, joy and sorrow, crime and punishment, pain, and self-knowlege.
Theogony/Works and Days
Hesiod · 99 pages
Hesiod's straightforward account of family conflict among the gods is the best and earliest evidence of what the ancient Greeks believed about the beginning of the world. Includes Hesiod's "Works and Days", lines 1-201, and material from the Library of Apollodorus.
Tao te Ching
老子, Yang Peng, Jordi Fibla · 120 pages
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Basho Matsuo · 167 pages
The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatory
Dante Alighieri · 258 pages
Faust: First Part
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 327 pages
Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth
Elizabeth Roberts, Elias Amidon · 480 pages
The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz
Saadi, Idries Shah · 245 pages
Shikwa and Jawab-i-Shikwa: Iqbal's Dialogue with Allah
Muhammad Iqbal · 96 pages
The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
Arthur Bennett · 314 pages
The strength of Puritan character and life lay in prayer and meditation. In this practice the spirit of prayer was regarded as of first importance and the best form of prayer, for living prayer is the characteristic of genuine spirituality. Yet prayer is also vocal and may therefore on occasions be written. Consequently in the Puritan tradition there are many written prayers and meditations which
Essential Sufism
James Fadiman, Robert Frager · 288 pages
A collection of more than three hundred works from all eras of Sufism, including prayers, poetry, stories, fables, and aphorisms written by Sufi prophets, saints, and teachers.
Paradise Lost
John Milton · 336 pages
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his ban
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 506 pages
A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde, Hous