The Greatest Books of All Time on Mysticism

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
247 Kim Rudyard Kipling 1901 British English
268 Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats 1933 Irish English
447 Gypsy Ballads Federico García Lorca 1928 Spanish Spanish
646 The Varieties of Religious Experience William James 1902 American English
768 A Glastonbury Romance John Cowper Powys 1932 British English
828 Lost Horizon James Hilton 1933 British English
880 Orthodoxy G. K. Chesterton 1908 British English
891 Golem Gustav Meyrink 1915 Austrian German
1013 Green Mansions W. H. Hudson 1904 British English
1019 The Interior Castle Teresa of Avila 1588 Spanish Spanish
1080 Mount Analogue René Daumal 1952 French French
1217 Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian
1281 Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed 1972 American English
1359 Illuminations Arthur Rimbaud 1886 French French
1438 Masnavi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1258 Persian Persian
1595 The Forbidden Kingdom Jan Jacob Slauerhoff 1932 Dutch Dutch
1727 Down There J. K. Huysmans 1891 French French
1764 Tales Of The Hasidim Martin Buber 1949 German German
1776 Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke 1953 British English
1796 Collected Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1982 Polish English
1963 The Quest Frederik van Eeden 1887 Dutch Dutch
2005 Baltasar and Blimunda José Saramago 1982 Portuguese Portuguese
2150 The Conference Of The Birds Attar Neyshabouri 1177 Persian Persian
2507 The Abyss Marguerite Yourcenar 1968 French French
2535 The Way of a Pilgrim Unknown 1884 Russian Russian
2672 Autobiographies William Butler Yeats 1926 Irish English
2691 The Book Of Margery Kempe Margery Kempe 1436 British Middle english
2720 The Life Of Saint Teresa Of Avila By Herself Teresa of Avila 1588 Spanish Spanish
2724 The Book Of Questions Edmond Jabès 1963 French French
2736 Philosophical Writings Novalis 1798 German German
2739 Dark Night of the Soul St. John of the Cross 1578 Spanish Spanish
2770 The Book Of Divine Consolation Meister Eckhart 1308 German Middle high german
2786 By Night Under The Stone Bridge Leo Perutz 1953 Austrian German
2816 The Gnostic Gospels Elaine Pagels 1979 American English
2994 The Doors Of Perception Aldous Huxley 1954 British English
3090 The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross St. John of the Cross 1578 Spanish Spanish
3152 The Complete Poems Of San Juan De La Cruz San Juan de la Cruz 1618 Spanish Spanish
3197 The Gospel Of Thomas Marvin W. Meyer 100 Unknown English
3201 The Perennial Philosophy Aldous Huxley 1945 British English
3233 The Books Of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk 2014 Polish Polish
3246 The Transcendent Unity Of Religions Frithjof Schuon 1953 French French
3439 The Needle's Eye Fanny Howe 1970 American English
3492 The Claw Of The Conciliator Gene Wolfe 1981 American English
3638 The Life Divine Sri Aurobindo 1942 Indian English
3638 Der Siebente Ring Stefan George 1907 German German
3638 The Seeress Of Prevorst Justinus Kerner 1829 German German
3638 The Veil Of Veronica Gertrud von le Fort 1928 German German
3638 An Outline Of Occult Science Rudolf Steiner 1910 Austrian German
3851 Fourth Mansions R. A. Lafferty 1969 American English
3878 Subconscious Opens Like A Fan Yona Wallach 1985 Israeli Hebrew
3893 Oriental Tales Marguerite Yourcenar 1938 French French
3950 The Phoenix And The Mirror Avram Davidson 1969 American English
3953 The Plant, The Well, The Angel Vassilis Vassilikos 1963 Greek Unknown
3953 Povestiri Vasile Voiculescu 1966 Romanian Romanian
4100 Aegypt John Crowley 1987 American English
4194 The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield 1993 American English
4232 Mariette In Ecstasy Ron Hansen 1991 American English
4408 The Essential Rumi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1995 Persian Persian
4532 The Spiritual Espousals Jan van Ruusbroec 1343 Dutch Middle dutch
4672 The Spiritual Teaching Of Ramana Maharshi Ramana Maharshi 1972 Indian Tamil
4687 The Idea Of The Holy Rudolf Otto 1917 German English
4687 In Search Of The Miraculous P.D. Ouspensky 1947 Russian English
4687 The Gospel Of Sri Ramakrishna Mahendranath Gupta 1902 Indian Bengali
4687 Major Trends In Jewish Mysticism Gershom Scholem 1929 German German
4687 Practical Mysticism Evelyn Underhill 1914 British English
4758 Claros Del Bosque María Zambrano 1977 Spanish Spanish
4877 The Golden String Bede Griffiths 1954 British English
4899 On Occult Philosophy Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1531 German Latin
4955 The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1911 British English
4976 God In Search Of Man Abraham Joshua Heschel 1955 American English
5006 Against the Day Thomas Pynchon 2006 American English
5226 The Green Face Gustav Meyrink 1916 German German
5341 A Funtineli Boszorkány Albert Wass 1959 Hungarian Hungarian
5346 New Seeds Of Contemplation Thomas Merton 1961 American English
5487 The Voices of Marrakesh Elias Canetti 1968 Bulgarian German
5512 Riders In The Chariot Patrick White 1961 Australian English
5890 Louis Lambert Honoré de Balzac 1832 French French
5929 Light M. John Harrison 2002 British English
6003 Inner Experience Georges Bataille 1943 French French
6003 Madame Edwarda Unknown 1941 Unknown French
6296 Stone Junction Jim Dodge 1990 American English
6306 The Lost Symbol Dan Brown 2009 American English
6356 At Twilight They Return Zyranna Zateli 1993 Greek Greek
6369 The Candle Of Vision George William Russell 1974 Irish English
6442 Mystical Dimensions Of Islam Annemarie Schimmel 1975 Unknown English
6521 City of the Beasts Isabel Allende 2002 Chilean Spanish
6792 La Tejedora De Coronas Germán Espinosa 1982 Colombian Spanish
6860 The Thirteen Petalled Rose Adin Steinsaltz 1980 Israeli Hebrew
6964 The Seance and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1968 Polish Yiddish
7215 The Poems Of St. John Of The Cross St. John of the Cross 1578 Spanish Spanish
7215 The Garden Of Cyrus Sir Thomas Browne 1658 British English
7215 The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw 1652 British English
7215 West Eastern Divan Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1819 German German
7215 Poems Of Lionel Johnson Lionel Johnson 1895 British English
7215 Hymns To The Night Novalis 1800 German German
7215 Aphorisms Novalis 1798 German German
7215 Poems Of Stefan George Stefan George 1897 German German
7215 Poems Of Max Jacob Max Jacob 1917 French French
7215 The Mystery Of The Charity Of Joan Of Arc Charles Péguy 1910 French French
7215 A Vision William Butler Yeats 1925 Irish English
7215 Collected Stories Rudyard Kipling 1941 British English
7215 Wolf Solent John Cowper Powys 1929 British English
7215 The Burning Oracle George Wilson Knight 1939 British Unknown
7215 The Journal Of Albion Moonlight Kenneth Patchen 1941 American English
7588 Memoirs Of A Gnostic Dwarf David Madsen 1995 British English
7794 The Rebel Angels Robertson Davies 1981 Canadian English
8091 The Messianic Idea In Judaism, And Other Essays On Jewish Spirituality Gershom Scholem 1971 German English
8290 Crónica De Un Iniciado Abelardo Castillo 1991 Argentinian Spanish
8387 Poems Of Edmond Jabès Edmond Jabès 1959 French French
8703 The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley Hector Viel Temperley
 2011 Argentinian Spanish
8824 The Baphomet Pierre Klossowski 1965 French French
9091 The Cunning Man Robertson Davies 1994 Canadian English
9817 The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak 2009 Turkish Turkish
9890 Songs Of Kabir Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 2011 Indian Hindi
10002 Where Tigers Are At Home Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès 2008 French French
10013 The Zafarani Files Jamal al- Ghitani 1976 Egyptian Arabic
10136 Maitreya Severo Sarduy 1978 Cuban Spanish
10200 Monsieur, Or The Prince Of Darkness Lawrence Durrell 1974 British English
10305 The Gnostic Religion Hans Jonas 1958 German English
10886 Sabbatai Sevi Gershom Scholem 1973 German German