🕊️ Religion & Spirituality · United States
Best Religion & Spirituality Books from United States
Religious and spiritual literature encompasses the foundational texts of human civilisation — the Bible, the Quran, the Bhagavad Gita, the Dhammapada, the Tao Te Ching — and the enormous body of commentary, theology, mysticism, and personal testimony that has grown around them. United States has produced some of the most internationally recognised works in religion & spirituality, with titles that have appeared on major prize lists and critical surveys worldwide. This page ranks the best religion & spirituality from United States by editorial consensus.
#1
science-fiction
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny· 1968
★Hugo Award
Editorial Score55/100
#2
literary-fiction
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens· 1843
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#3
literary-fiction
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne· 1800
Library Journal
Editorial Score55/100
#4
literary-fiction
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut· 1963
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#5
literary-fiction
Tanglewood Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne· 1853
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score45/100
#6
cooking-food
Travels in West Africa
Mary Henrietta Kingsley· 1897
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
#7
science-fiction
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein· 1961
TIME 100 Best Novels
Editorial Score44/100
#8
literary-fiction
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving· 1989
BBC Big Read
Editorial Score42/100
#9
literary-fiction
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin· 1952
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#10
science-fiction
The Telling
Ursula K. Le Guin· 2000
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#11
psychology
The Conquest of Fear
Basil King· 1921
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#12
travel-exploration
India and its inhabitants
Caleb Wright· 1850
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#13
art-design
China
C. P. Fitzgerald· 1935
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#14
religion-spirituality
Ten great religions
James Freeman Clarke· 1871
Library Journal
Editorial Score40/100
#15
biography-memoir
Eat Pray Love
Elizabeth Gilbert· 2006
Goodreads Choice Award
Editorial Score38/100
#16
classic-literature
The Practice of the Presence of God
Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection· 2019
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#17
science-fiction
Letters from the Earth
Mark Twain· 1962
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#18
science-fiction
Counter-clock world
Philip K. Dick· 1967
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#19
psychology
By The Light of My Father's Smile
Alice Walker· 1998
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#20
travel-exploration
Religion in late Roman Britain
Dorothy Watts· 1998
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#21
religion-spirituality
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
Nathaniel Hawthorne· 1800
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#22
religion-spirituality
Reincarnation and the Law of Karma
William Walker Atkinson· 1908
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#23
religion-spirituality
Deutsche mythologie
Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]· 1835
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#24
religion-spirituality
Occult Japan
Percival Lowell· 1894
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#25
religion-spirituality
Pratique de la présence de Dieu
Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection· 1727
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#26
religion-spirituality
Practice of the Presence of God
Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection· 2000
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#27
religion-spirituality
A student's philosophy of religion
William Kelley Wright· 1922
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#28
religion-spirituality
Life in a Haitian valley
Melville J. Herskovitz· 1937
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#29
religion-spirituality
Teresa of Avila
Peter Tyler· 2014
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#30
religion-spirituality
Babylonian religion and mythology
Leonard William King· 1899
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#31
religion-spirituality
A history of the Church
Philip Hughes· 1934
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#32
religion-spirituality
John Wheelwright, His Writings
John Wheelwright· 1876
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#33
religion-spirituality
Du polythéisme romain
Benjamin Constant· 1833
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#34
religion-spirituality
De la religion
Benjamin Constant· 1824
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#35
religion-spirituality
The meaning of God in human experience
William Earnest Hocking· 1912
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#36
religion-spirituality
Disease, religion and society in the Fiji islands
Dorothy M. Spencer· 1941
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#37
religion-spirituality
Comparative religion
Alan Coates Bouquet· 1941
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#38
religion-spirituality
Indian myths
Ellen Russell Emerson· 1884
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#39
religion-spirituality
The half century
Emerson Davis· 1851
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#40
religion-spirituality
Intimacy and ritual
Vieda Skultans· 1974
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#41
religion-spirituality
Spirit possession and spirit mediumship in Africa and Afro-America
Irving I. Zaretsky· 1978
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#42
religion-spirituality
The metaphysical poets
Helen Constance White· 1936
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#43
religion-spirituality
Human nature and its remaking
William Earnest Hocking· 1918
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#44
religion-spirituality
Old watermills and windmills
R. Thurston Hopkins· 1905
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#45
religion-spirituality
The sky-religion in Egypt
G. A. Wainwright· 1938
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#46
religion-spirituality
Druidism
Dudley Wright· 1924
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#47
religion-spirituality
Advanced course in yogi philosophy and Oriental occultism
William Walker Atkinson· 1905
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#48
religion-spirituality
Practicing our faith
Dorothy C. Bass· 1997
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#49
religion-spirituality
The fire next time
James Baldwin· 1962
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#50
religion-spirituality
The Teachings of Don Juan
Carlos Castaneda· 1968
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
