Best Spirituality Books

Peter Matthiessen and zoologist George Schaller trek 250 miles into the Himalayas to study the bharal (Himalayan blue sheep) and their predator, the nearly mythical snow leopard — a physical journey that becomes a meditation on grief, Zen Buddhism, and the nature of consciousness.

A young Andalusian shepherd boy travels from Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure. Along the way he meets a series of guides who teach him that the real treasure is found in pursuing your 'Personal Legend' — your dream.

A follow-up to The Power of Now that takes Tolle's teachings further — examining how ego operates, why it causes suffering, and how a shift in consciousness could transform not just individuals but human civilisation.

A guide to freeing yourself from the voice in your head and the patterns that limit your consciousness — drawing on mindfulness, yoga philosophy, and Vedantic thought.

Drawing on ancient Toltec wisdom, Don Miguel Ruiz identifies four agreements — be impeccable with your word, don't take anything personally, don't make assumptions, always do your best — that can transform life by dismantling the limiting beliefs we absorbed in childhood.

Maria, a young Brazilian woman, travels to Geneva dreaming of fame and fortune. Instead, she becomes a high-end prostitute, all while searching for — and philosophising about — the nature of love, desire, and the sacred in the profane.

Brida O'Fern is a young Irish woman driven by a hunger for spiritual knowledge. She seeks out two teachers — a wise man in the forest and a witch who teaches through the Wiccan Tradition of the Sun — in search of magic, purpose, and her soulmate.

A world-famous author — unmistakably Coelho himself — wakes one day to find that his war-correspondent wife Esther has disappeared, seemingly of her own will. His obsessive search for her, and for the meaning behind her departure, takes him from Paris to the steppes of Central Asia.