The Greatest Books of All Time on Transcendence

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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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3246 The Transcendent Unity Of Religions Frithjof Schuon 1953 French French
3638 Der Siebente Ring Stefan George 1907 German German
4688 Practical Mysticism Evelyn Underhill 1914 British English
4759 Claros Del Bosque María Zambrano 1977 Spanish Spanish
5037 Images And Symbols Mircea Eliade 1952 Romanian French
6354 The Perennial Scope Of Philosophy Karl Jaspers 1949 German German
7216 Hymns To The Night Novalis 1800 German German
7216 Poems Of Stefan George Stefan George 1897 German German
7216 Essays And Poems Jones Very 1839 American English
7967 Complete Poems And Selected Letters And Prose Hart Crane 1952 American English
8705 The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley Hector Viel Temperley
 2011 Argentinian Spanish
9892 Songs Of Kabir Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 2011 Indian Hindi
11366 The Jasmine Of The Lovers Rūzbihān Baqlī Shīrāzī Persian Persian
15829 The Mystery Of Being 1 Gabriel Marcel 1949 French French
15916 The Drunken Boat Arthur Rimbaud 1871 French French
16733 Αναφορά στον Γκρέκο Nikos Kazantzakis 1961 Greek Greek
17162 The Power Of Meaning Emily Esfahani Smith 2017 American English
16950 The Collected Songs Of Cold Mountain Hanshan -800 Chinese Classical chinese
17162 1999 Emily Dickinson Unknown Unknown
17016 Johnathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach 1970 American English