Spirituality book series in reading order

by J. Brent Bill

by Vladimir Megre

Matthew Kelly, born 12 July 1973 in Sydney, is an Australian motivational speaker, business consultant and founding partner of the management consulting firm Floyd Consulting. The catalogue lists 48 Kelly books from Our Father (1995) to Nothing Is Random (2025). Subjects include the Catholic Church, spirituality, self-help, happiness, parenting and business. Titles include The Rhythm of Life (1999), Rediscover Catholicism (2002) and The Dream Manager (2007).

Richard Rohr

37 books

Richard Rohr writes on Christian spirituality from within the Catholic tradition, on contemplation, scripture and the inner life of men. 37 catalogued titles run from The Wild Mans Journey (1986) through The Enneagram (1989), Simplicity: The Art of Living (1991), Near Occasions of Grace (1993), Radical Grace (1993) and Quest for the Grail (1994). The newest is The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage.

Max Lucado

278 books• 6 series

Max Lucado has 278 books in the catalogue, published between 1985 and 2026, and subject headings centre on Christian life, the Bible, Jesus Christ, meditations and biblical teaching. Lucado, born January 11, 1955, is an American author and minister at Oak Hills Church, formerly Oak Hills Church of Christ, in San Antonio, Texas. The earliest titles are No Wonder They Call Him the Savior and On the Anvil (both 1985), then God Came Near (1986), The Applause of Heaven (1990) and He Still Moves Stones (1992). Series include Life Lessons, Hermie & Friends, Max Lucado's Wemmicks and Just in Case, and children's fiction is also among the subjects. The newest listed title is Unbreakable Courage Bible Study Guide (2026).

Anne Lamott

23 books

Faith, family and the writing life are Anne Lamott's recurring subjects. Hard Laughter (1979) is the earliest of 23 catalogued titles, which include Operating Instructions (1993), Bird by Bird (1994) and Traveling Mercies (1999) and reach Good Writing in 2026. Christian biography, spirituality and mothers and sons fill the subject tags.

Sylvia Browne wrote about psychic phenomena and the afterlife. The American author, who described herself as a medium, published 55 catalogued books between 1990 and 2012, from Adventures of a Psychic (1990) to Past Lives of the Rich and Famous (2012). Spiritualism, parapsychology, the New Age movement and life after death are the recurring subjects, and the Journey of the Soul sequence collects part of the work. Browne appeared regularly on television and radio, including The Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live. Statements she made about missing persons were later shown to be false, and in 1992 she pleaded no contest to securities fraud. Browne was born in 1936 and died in 2013.

Lysa TerKeurst writes Christian non-fiction for women. Thirty-five titles are catalogued from Capture His Heart (2002) through 2026, among them What Happens When Women Walk in Faith (2005), Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl (2009) and the Made to Crave Devotional (2011). Religious life, prayers and devotions, decision making and the emotions of Christian women fill the subject tags.

Creative non-fiction and essays on Native American life, American culture and spirituality make up Kent Nerburn's work. Nerburn, born in Minneapolis in 1946, opened the catalogue with Native American Wisdom (1991) and has reached 19 books, the most recent Lone Dog Road (2025). The Neither Wolf Nor Dog trilogy is the best known sequence: its first book took a Minnesota Book Award in 1995, The Wolf At Twilight took a second in 2010, and The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo closes the set. Dakota philosophy, biography and the spiritual life recur across the catalogue.

Thom Hartmann

42 books• 1 series

Thom Hartmann, born in 1951, is an American author, broadcaster and progressive political commentator. Two bodies of work sit in the catalogue: books on attention deficit disorder, from Attention Deficit Disorder (1993) through Beyond ADD (1996), Healing ADD (1998) and a complete guide to ADHD (2000); and political and historical writing, including the Hidden History series and The Last American President (2025). Hartmann has hosted The Thom Hartmann Program on syndicated radio since 2003 and presented the television show The Big Picture from 2010 to 2017. Forty-two titles are catalogued in all.

Anne Graham Lotz is an American evangelist and the second daughter of Billy Graham and his wife Ruth. Lotz founded AnGeL Ministries and writes devotional and Bible-study books; Just Give Me Jesus (2000) is the best known of them. Thirty-eight titles are catalogued, from Daily Light Devotional (1985) to God Won't Leave You There (2026), including The Vision of His Glory (1996), God's Story (1997) and several daily-reading journals. Scripture, Christian life and meditation are the standing subjects.

Dan Millman writes and lectures in the personal development field. The catalogue of 22 titles opens in 1992 with No Ordinary Moments, Quest for the Crystal Castle and Warrior Athlete, takes in The Life You Were Born to Live (1993), Body Mind Mastery (1999) and Divine Interventions (1999), and closes with Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit in 2022. Spiritual life, self-actualisation and the psychology of athletics and physical fitness are the recurring subjects. The film Peaceful Warrior, drawn from one of Millman's books and from his own life, is the work he is best known for.

John Michael Greer, born 1962, is an American writer and druid whose books cover religion, environmentalism and the occult. Subjects in the catalogue include magic, divination, geomancy, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Druidism. The 111 catalogued books begin with Paths of Wisdom (1996) and include Circles of Power (1997), The New Encyclopedia of the Occult (2003) and A World Full of Gods (2005). Series include Weird of Hali, Sterling Chronicles and Ariel Moravec Occult Detective, and The Complete Archdruid Report and After Oil also appear. The newest title is The Way of the Secret Temple (2025).

Charles Walter Williams wrote supernatural novels, poetry, theology and criticism. War in Heaven, Many Dimensions, The Place of the Lion and The Greater Trumps, all published between 1930 and 1932, put occult objects and spiritual forces into contemporary English settings. Arthurian romance and Christian theology run through the rest, and the Aspects of Power series collects part of the work. The catalogue holds 51 titles from Poems of Conformity (1917) onward.

Edward T. Welch writes on Christianity and pastoral counseling, with subject tags for substance abuse, addiction, domestic abuse and spirituality. The catalogue lists 42 Welch books from Addictive Behavior (1995) to Someone I Know Is Grieving (2023), and the median length is 30 pages. When People Are Big and God is Small (1997) and Blame It on the Brain? (1998) come from the early years. Depression: A Stubborn Darkness (2000), Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave (2001) and Domestic Abuse: How to Help (2001) are further titles. Series include Resources for Changing Lives and Good News for Little Hearts.

J. Brent Bill, born in 1951 in Columbus, Ohio, is an American writer of Quaker spiritual literature. Bill graduated from Wilmington College and Earlham School of Religion and has worked as a pastor and a writing coach. The catalogue holds 17 books from David Updegraff: Quaker Holiness Preacher (1983) to Amity: Stories from the Heartland (2023). Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality (2005) and Sacred Compass (2008) are among them. Earlier titles include Rock and Roll: Proceed with Caution (1984).

Vladimir Megre, born Puzakov on 23 July 1950, is a Russian entrepreneur and writer. The Ringing Cedars of Russia books, also known as the Anastasia series, are the work he is known for, and from the 1990s they gave rise to a socio-religious movement of the same name. Nine titles are catalogued between Anastasia (1996) and Rites of Love (2006), including The Ringing Cedars of Russia (1997), The Space of Love (1998), Co-Creation (1999), Who Are We? (2000), The Book of Kin (2002), The Energy of Life (2002) and The New Civilization (2005). Subjects record spirituality, human ecology, nature and child rearing.