After coming across a very intriguing and mind opening being, by the name of Osho. I found his recommended book list to be stellar. Most have some relevance to religion or spirituality.

I have most recently been reading 'Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson' and have been fully absorbed and loving it. It's the type of book that you carry it's ideas around with you and are constantly observing or being full on blindsided by the truth in them. I highly recommend it.

Chapter 1
1 Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
2 Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3 The Book of Mirdad
4 Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
5 Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
6 The Parables of Chuang Tzu
7 The Sermon on the Mount
8 Bhagavad-Gita
9 Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
10 The One Thousand Songs of Milarepa
Chapter 2
1 The Book (of the Sufis)
2 The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
3 The Book of Lieh Tzu
4 Dialogue on Socrates by Plato
5 The Notes of the Disciples of Bodhidarma
6 The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam
7 Masnavi by Jalaluddin Rumi
8 The Isa Upanishad
9 All and Everything by George Gurdjieff
10 In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky
11 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Chapter: 3
1 Hsin Hsin Ming by Sosan
2 Tertium Organum by P. D. Ouspensky
3 Geet Govinda
4 Samayasar by Kundkunda
5 The First and the Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti
6 The Book of Huang Po (The Teachings of Huang Po)
7 The Book of Hui Hi
(The Teachings of Hui Hi)
8 The Song of Solomon
Chapter: 4
1 The Fragments of Heraclitus
2 The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
3 The Royal Song of Saraha
4 Tilopa's Song of Mahamudra
5 Zen and Japanese Culture by D. T. Suzuki
6 Let Go by Hubert Benoit
7 Ramakrishna's Parables
8 The Fables of Aesop
9 Nagarjuna's Mula Madhyamika Karika
10 The Book of Marpa

Chapter 5
1 Brahma Sutras by Badrayana
2 Bhakti Sutras by Narada
3 Yoga Sutras by Patanjali
4 The Songs of Kabir
5 The Secret Doctrine by Madame Blavatsky
6 The Songs of Meera
7 The Songs of Sahajo
8 The Book of Rabiya-al-Adabiya
9 The Songs of Nanak
10 Vivek Chudamani by Shankaracharya
11 The Koran - Hazrat Mohammed
Chapter 6
1 The Dhammapada - Gautam the Buddha
2 Jaina Sutras - Mahavira
3 Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
4 The Declarations of Al-Hillaj Mansoor
5 The Fragments of Mahakashyapa
6 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
7 The Stories of Baal Shem
8 The Songs of Farid
9 Vigyana Bhairava Tantra - Shiva
10 Tatva Sutra by Uma Swati
11 The Songs of Naropa

Chapter 7
1 The Poetry of Malukdas
2 Guru Grantha Sahib (the book of the Sikhs)
3 The Light on the Path by Mabel Collins
4 The Songs of Lalla
5 The Verses of the mystic Gorakh-Nath
6 The Supreme Doctrine by Hubert Benoit
7 Shiva Sutra
8 The Songs of Gaurang
9 The Songs of Dadu
10 The Statements of Sarmad
Chapter 8
1 The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
2 A New Model of the Universe by P. D. Ouspensky
3 The Statements of Sanai
4 The Fragments of Dionysius
5 At the Feet of the Master by Jiddhu Krishnamurti
6 The Fragments of Junnaid
7 God Speaks by Meher Baba
8 Maxims for a Revolutionary by George Bernard Shaw
9 The Teachings of Hui Neng ("Do not think; be.")
10 The Jokes of Mulla Nasruddin

Chapter 9
1 The Destiny of the Mind by Haas
2 The Sayings of Eckhart
3 The Sayings of Boehme
4 The Sufis by Idries Shah
5 The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
6 The Sayings of Rinzai
7 The Lectures of Hazrat Inayat Khan
8 All of the books by Hazrat Ali Khan
9 Jesus, the Son of Man by Kahlil Gibran
10 The Madman by Kahlil Gibran
Chapter 10
1 Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre
2 Time and Being by Martin Heidegger
3 Tractatus Logico Philisophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
4 Vimalkirti Nirdesh Sutra
5 Commentaries on Living by J. Krishnamurti
6 Commentaries by Maurice Nicoll
7 Our Life with Gurdjieff by Hartmann
8 Shree Pasha by Ramanuja
9 The Future Psychology of Man by P.D. Ouspensky
10 The Book of Bahauddin

Chapter 11
1 The Outsider by Colin Wilson
2 The Analects by Confusius
3 The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
4 The Voice of the Master by Kahlil Gibran
5 Who am I by Maharshi Ramana
6 The Mind of India by Moorehead and Radhakrishnan
7 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
8 Alice through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
9 The Wanderer by Kahlil Gibran
10 The Spiritual Sayings by Kahlil Gibran
11 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Chapter 12
1 Tales of Hassidism by Martin Buber
2 I and Thou by Martin Buber
3 Das Kapital by Karl Marx (Osho: "Do not read it.")
4 Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
5 Meetings with Remarkable Men by Gurdjieff
6 The Grantha (written by an anonymous disciple of Kabir)
7 The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
8 The Myth of Sisyphus by Marcel
9 The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
10 The Songs of Dayabai


Chapter 13
1 Lust for Life by Irving Stone
2 The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
3 Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
4 Notes on Jesus by Thomas
5 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
6 The Mother by Maxim Gorky
7 Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
8 The Phoenix by D.H. Lawrence
9 Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious by D.H. Lawrence
10 Light of Asia by Arnold
11 Bijak, Kabir's selection of songs
12 One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
13 The I Ching
14 Nadi Ke Dvip (Islands of a River) by Sacchidanand Vatsayana
Chapter 14
1 The Art of Living by Lin Yutang
2 The Wisdom of China by Lin Yutang
3 The Talmud
4 Shunya Svabhava by Taran Taran
5 Siddhi Svabhava by Taran Taran
6 Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7 Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
8 Psychosynthesis by Assagioli
9 Prose Poems by Kahlil Gibran
10 Thoughts and Meditations by Kahlil Gibran





Chapter 15
1 My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
2 Confessions by Saint Augustine
3 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4 The Art of Tantra by Ajit Mukherjee
5 The Tantra Paintings by Ajit Mukherjee
6 Bhaj Govindam moodh mate by Adi Shankaracharya
7 Philosophical Papers by Ludwig Wittgenstein
8 Zen Flesh Zen Bones - Paul Reps
9 Zen Buddhism by Christmas Humphries
10 The Songs of Chandidas
Chapter 16
1 Shiva Puri Baba by Bennett
2 Listen Little Man by Wilhelm Reich
3 Principia Mathematica by Bertrand Russell and Whitehead
4 Poetics by Aristotle
5 Three Pillars of Zen by Ross
6 The Gospel of Ramakrishna by M
7 The collected works of Ramatirtha
8 Principa Ethica by G.E. Moore
9 The Songs of Rahim (Rahim Khan Khana)
10 Divan by Mirza Ghalib
11 The Book by Alan

These sound like some great books.
Thanks for sharing, Kevin!

So.... its been a bit over a year since we have been running the book club. I have some questions:

What were your favorite 3 books? Why?

What books surprised you the most you liked them more than expected, or disliked more than expected?

Have any of the books caused you to seek out more books by that author?

BOb

I recently read 'The Secret Garden' by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was a book I thoroughly enjoyed. Throughout every chapter, the characters developed and changed for the better, and more mysteries were unraveled. I loved especially the last chapter, in which Burnett hints at the philosophy I believe: that we are each individually responsible for all of our own thoughts, words and actions. And, that we can make ourselves into the people who we want to be.
I have since read several other books by Burnett, and my next favorite by her would be the one titled, 'Dawn of a Tomorrow'.
I prefer novels that have an uplifting message and are inspiring, but aren't too predictable in the manner that they turn out.

Any good ones from you, Bob?

Seems like such a great list Kevin!!
but it's so big that I don't know where to start!!