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“God's group project.”

Mere Christianity

C.S. Lewis

“Liar. Lunatic. Lord. Pick one. No pressure.”

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

“Every hero is the same guy in a different hat.”

New Seeds of Contemplation

Thomas Merton

“You are not who you think you are. Neither was he.”

The Cost of Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Grace is free. It is not cheap. He paid full price.”

The Study Quran

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Every verse ships with a 1,400-year argument.”

The Heart of Islam

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Serenity, weaponized.”

A History of God

Karen Armstrong

“God: the unauthorized biography.”

Purification of the Heart

Hamza Yusuf

“Envy. Vanity. Treatable.”

Islam: A Short History

Karen Armstrong

“All of Islam, pocket-sized. God help her.”

The Five Books of Moses

Robert Alter

“In the beginning was a run-on sentence.”

Man Is Not Alone

Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Start with awe. Everything else is commentary.”

The Sabbath

Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Six days you grind. The seventh, you defect.”

I and Thou

Martin Buber

“You have never truly met anyone. Not once.”

God Is Not One

Stephen Prothero

“Eight religions. Eight problems. Zero agreement.”

The Dhammapada

Eknath Easwaran

“Your mind is a fish flopping around on dry land.”

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Shunryu Suzuki

“Sit down. Want nothing. That's it.”

The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching

Thich Nhat Hanh

“There is a cloud floating in this sentence.”

When Things Fall Apart

Pema Chödrön

“Good news: you're falling. There's no ground.”

The World's Religions

Huston Smith

“One man road-tested every religion.”

The Bhagavad Gita

Eknath Easwaran

“God parks the chariot between two armies and starts therapy.”

Autobiography of a Yogi

Paramahansa Yogananda

“The only book on Steve Jobs' iPad has flying saints.”

Hinduism For Dummies

“5,000 years of God. Now with checklists.”

Karma Yoga

Swami Vivekananda

“Work like a god. Expect nothing. Repeat.”

The Upanishads

Eknath Easwaran

“Death takes questions. A boy has several.”

Tao Te Ching

Stephen Mitchell

“Do nothing. Everything gets done.”

The Tao of Pooh

Benjamin Hoff

“Outzenned by a bear of very little brain.”

Zhuangzi: Basic Writings

Burton Watson

“What if the butterfly is dreaming you?”

The Secret of the Golden Flower

Richard Wilhelm

“Point your eyes backwards and bloom.”

The Te of Piglet

Benjamin Hoff

“Small pig. Big grudges. No honey.”

The Essential Rumi

Coleman Barks

“America's favorite poet got translated out of Islam.”

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

“Critics hated it. Your wedding quotes it.”

The Conference of the Birds

Farid ud-Din Attar

“The path to God is paved with dead birds.”

The Gift

Hafiz

“Hafiz dictated it in a dream. In English.”

The Meccan Revelations

Ibn Arabi

“560 chapters. One author. Allegedly.”

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

“You're reading the emperor's diary. He'd be horrified.”

Letters from a Stoic

Seneca

“Rome's richest man wrote the book on wanting less.”

Discourses and Selected Writings

Epictetus

“The leg broke. The man did not.”

A Guide to the Good Life

William B. Irvine

“Imagine everyone you love is dead. Now say thanks.”

The Daily Stoic

Ryan Holiday

“Memento mori. Subscribe.”

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus

“The boulder always wins. Push anyway.”

Being and Nothingness

Jean-Paul Sartre

“You are a glorious hole in reality.”

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

“They took his book, his family, his name. Not his why.”

The Stranger

Albert Camus

“He shot a man because the sun was in his eyes.”

Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard

“God said kill him. Abraham packed the donkey.”

The Upanishads

Eknath Easwaran

“Death takes questions. A boy has several.”

I Am That

Nisargadatta Maharaj

“You were never born.”

Be As You Are

Sri Ramana Maharshi

“He died at sixteen. It vastly improved him.”

Vivekachudamani

Adi Shankaracharya

“You saw a snake. It was rope. The universe is next.”

Ashtavakra Samhita

“The enlightenment speedrun. No method. No merch.”

Emergency

Neil Strauss

“Panic, professionalized.”

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe

“What if church drove a Day-Glo school bus?”

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

“The American Dream, found dead in a Vegas hotel.”

Dune

Frank Herbert

“A homemade messiah for a planet that prays to worms.”

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

“She hated religion, so she built one — with trains.”

The Cynic Philosophers

Robert Dobbin

“Shameless. Homeless. Right.”

The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic

Jean-Manuel Roubineau

“The barrel? A jar. The lamp? Hearsay. The bite? Real.”

Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Diogenes Laërtius

“Petty. Horny. Ridiculous.”

The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity

“Diogenes pissed on polite society. It never dried.”

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

“Quit your job. Squat by a pond. Become scripture.”

The Art of Happiness

Epicurus

“Accused of orgies. Convicted of cheese. Sentenced to a garden.”

On the Nature of Things

Lucretius

“Atoms fall forever. One swerves. You happen.”

Letters on Happiness

Epicurus

“You were dead for eons. Went fine. Do it again sometime.”

The Swerve

Stephen Greenblatt

“Goodbye Hell. Hello you.”

How to Be an Epicurean

Catherine Wilson

“Fire your inner Stoic. Hire a gardener. Feel things again.”

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Shunryu Suzuki

“Sit down. Want nothing. That's it.”

The Way of Zen

Alan Watts

“Effortless. Allegedly.”

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

Paul Reps

“A monk asks. The master hits him. Enlightenment?”

The Three Pillars of Zen

Philip Kapleau

“He transcribed evil. Then he sat still until it burned off.”

Dropping Ashes on the Buddha

Seung Sahn

“Open your mouth, already a mistake.”

The Stranger

Albert Camus

“He shot a man because the sun was in his eyes.”

The Plague

Albert Camus

“First the rats died. Then the people. Then the excuses.”

The Fall

Albert Camus

“She jumped. He kept walking. Now it's your problem.”

The Rebel

Albert Camus

“Friendship, guillotined.”

Exile and the Kingdom

Albert Camus

“Offered freedom, the prisoner walked to jail.”