Alliance for Catholic Education
20 Recommended Authors (and some of their books) on Spirituality
- Thomas a Kempis: On the Imitation of Christ
- Brother Lawrence: The Practice of the Presence of God
- Frederick Buechner: The Faces of Christ; Speak What We Feel; Wishful Thinking; Peculiar Treasures; The Hungering Dark
- Dorothy Day: Long Loneliness
- Martin de Porres Kennedy: A Philadelphia Catholic in King James' Court
- Documents of the Second Vatican Council
- Richard Foster: Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home; Streams of Living Water; Celebration of Discipline; Freedom of Simplicity
- Scott Hahn: Rome Sweet Home
- Fr. Thomas Keating: Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel; Intimacy with God
- Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith; Grace Eventually
- James Martin, SJ: The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything; My Life with the Saints
- Thomas Merton: Seven Story Mountain; New Seeds of Contemplation
- Donald Miller: Blue Like Jazz; A Million Miles in a Thousand Years; Searching for God Knows What
- Fr. Henri Nouwen: Return of the Prodigal; Road to Peace; Reaching Out
- Ronald Rolheiser, OMI: Against an Infinite Horizon; The Holy Longing
- Fleming Rutledge:The Bible and The New York Times, Help My Unbelief, and The Undoing of Death
- St. John of the Cross: Dark Night of the Soul; Collected Works
- St. Terese of Avila: Autobiography; The Way of Perfection
- Kathleen Sullivan: I Had Lunch with God: Gospel Inspirations for Tough Times
- The Way of the Pilgrim