Thomas Merton
1915-1968

Primary Sources:
Figures for an Apocalypse (1947)
Cistercian Contemplatives: A Guide to Trappist Life (1948)
The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
Exile Ends in Glory: The Life of a Trappistine (1948)
What are These Wounds: A Life of St Lutgarde (1948)
The Waters of Siloe (1949)
Seeds of Contemplation (1949)
The Ascent to Truth (1951)
Bread in the Wilderness (1953)
Disputed Questions (1953)
The Sign of Jonas: The Journal of Thomas Merton (1953)
The Last of the Fathers: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Encyclical Letter, Doctor Mellifluus (1954)
No Man is An Island (1955)
Living Bread (1956)
Silence in Heaven: A Book of the Monastic Life (1956)
Notes on Sacred and Profane Art (1956)
Praying the Psalms (1956)
Thoughts in Solitude (1956)
The Silent Life (1957)
Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality (1957)
The Tower of Babel (1957)
Monastic Peace (1958)
Nativity Kerygame (1958)
Prometheus: A Meditation (1958)
The Christmas Sermons of Bl. Guerric of Igny (1959)
The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton (1959)
God is My Life: The Story of Our Lady of Gethsemani(1960)
Spiritual Direction and Meditation (1960)
The Behavior of Titans (1961)
New Seeds of Contemplation (1961)
Original Child Bomb: Points for Meditation to be Scratched on the Walls of a Cave (1961)
A Thomas Merton Reader (1962)
Hagia Sophia (1962)
Life and Holiness (1963)
Seeds of Destruction (1964)
The Way of Chuang Tzu (1965)
Seasons of Celebration (1965)
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (1966)
Gethsamani: A life of Praise (1966)
Mystics and Zen Masters (1967)
Contemplative Prayer (1968)

After 1968:
Climate of Monastic Prayer (1969)
My Argument with the Gestapo (1969)
True Solitude: Selections from the Writings of Thomas Merton (1969)
The Wisdom of the Desert (1970)
Opening the Bible (1971)
Thomas Merton on Peace (1971)
The Thomas Merton Studies Center (1971)
The Asian Journal (1973)
Contemplation in a World of Action (1973)
Cistercian Life (1974)
He is Risen (1975)
A Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Merton (1977)
The Monastic Journey (1977)
The Thomas Merton 1980 Appointment Calendar (1979)
Geography of Holiness: The Photography of Thomas Merton (1980)
Introductions East and West; The Foreign Prefaces of Thomas Merton (1981)
Letters from Tom: A Selection of Letters from Father Thomas Merton to W.H. Ferry, 1961-1968; (1984)
W. Shannon, ed: The Hidden Ground of Love (1985)
Love and Living, N. Stone and P. Hart, eds (1985)
Keeping a Spiritual Journal with Thomas Merton. A Personal Book of Days (1987)
Thomas Merton, Arranged for Daily Reading (1988)
A Vow of Conversation (1988)
Encounter: Thomas Merton and T.D. Suzuki (1988)
The Vow of Conversation: Journals 1964-1965; (1988)
Preview to the Asian Jounral (1989)
The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends (1989)
School of Charity: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction (1990)
C. Bochen, ed: The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers (1993)
A Catch of Anti-Letters: Correspondence Between Merton and Robert Lax (1994)
Witness to Freedom: Letters in Times of Crisis (1994)
Entering the Silence: The Journals of Thomas Merton. Vol 2: 1941-1952; (1995)
Passion for Peace: the Social Essays (1995)
Thoughts on the East (1995)
Run to the Mountain: The Journals of Thomas Merton Vol 1: 1939-1941; (1995)
Turning toward the World: The Journals of Thomas Merton Vol 4: 1960-1963; (1996)
Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (1997)

Other Titles:
Raids on the Unspeakable
Gandhi on Non-Violence
Zen and the Birds on Appetite
Eighteen Poems
The Geography of Lograire
The Literary Essays
Selected Poems
Thomas Merton in Alaska
The Strange Islands
The Collected Poems
The Thomas Merton Letter Series:
R. Daggy, ed: The Road to Joy
P. Hart, ed: The School of Charity