Thomas Merton bibliography

Thomas Merton's hermitage (interior) at the Abbey of Gethsemani

Below is a bibliography of published works authored by Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk of The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani. Several of the works listed here have been published posthumously.

Autobiographies

• The Seven Storey Mountain. Harcourt Brace. 1948. OCLC 385657. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Sign of Jonas. Harcourt Brace. 1953. OCLC 386887. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Day of a Stranger. Peregrine Smith. 1981. ISBN 0879050926. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

Biblical topics

• Bread in the Wilderness. New Directions. 1953. OCLC 371126. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Living Bread. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1956. OCLC 386309. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• He Is Risen. Argus Communications. 1973. ISBN 0913592587. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

Biographies

• Exile Ends in Glory: The Life of a Trappistine, Mother M. Berchmans, O.C.S.O. Bruce Publishing Company. 1948. OCLC 932012. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• What are these wounds?: The Life of a Cistercian Mystic, Saint Lutgarde of Aywières. Clonmore and Reynolds. 1948. OCLC 2952957. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Last of the Fathers: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Encyclical Letter, Doctor Mellifluus. Harcourt Brace. 1954. OCLC 502123. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

Contemplation and meditations

• Seeds of Contemplation. New Directions. 1949. OCLC 225115. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Ascent to Truth. Harcourt Brace. 1951. OCLC 172787. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Disputed Questions. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. 1960. OCLC 386651. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• New Seeds of Contemplation. London: Burns & Oates. 1962. p. 192. OCLC 43261344. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Raids on the Unspeakable. New Directions. 1966. OCLC 1155682. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander. DoubleDay. 1966. OCLC 712184. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Contemplative Prayer. Herder and Herder. 1969. OCLC 16848. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

Eastern thought

• The Way of Chuang Tzu. New Directions. 1965. OCLC 783366. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Mystics and Zen Masters. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. 1967. OCLC 377395. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Zen and the Birds of Appetite. New Directions. 1968. OCLC 276806. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

Journal writings

• The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1959. OCLC 14521398. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton. New Directions. 1973. ISBN 0811204642. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Woods, Shore and Desert: A Notebook, May 1968. Museum of New Mexico Press. 1982. ISBN 0890131406. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Cassian and the Fathers: Notes for Conferences Given in the Choir Novitiate, Abbey of Gethsemani. 2005. OCLC 16520690. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

Letters

• Papagni, Mario (2006). The Cold War Letters of Thomas Merton. M.A. Thesis: Spring Hill College. OCLC 51181592. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• Merton, Thomas (2008). Thomas Merton: A Life In Letters. Harperone. ISBN 0061348325. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)

Monastic, church and spiritual life

• The Waters of Siloe. Harcourt Brace. 1949. OCLC 386181. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• No Man Is an Island. Harcourt Brace. 1955. OCLC 388043. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Silent Life. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1957. OCLC 774280. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Thoughts in Solitude. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1958. OCLC 388042. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings From the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century. New Directions. 1960. OCLC 943800. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Spiritual Direction and Meditation. Liturgical Press. 1960. OCLC 255764. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The New Man. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1961. OCLC 710446. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Life and Holiness. Herder and Herder. 1963. OCLC 387439. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Seasons of Celebration. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1965. OCLC 386274. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Gethsemani: A Life of Praise. 1966. OCLC 969279. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Contemplation in a World of Action. Doubleday. 1971. OCLC 127701. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Merton, Thomas (1977). The Monastic Journey. Sheldon Press. ISBN 085969108X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

• Merton, Thomas (1979). Love and Living. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0156538954. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

• Merton, Thomas (1981). Introductions East and West: The Foreign Prefaces of Thomas Merton. Unicorn Press. ISBN 0877751390. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

Novels

• My Argument with the Gestapo: A Macaronic Journal. Doubleday. 1969. OCLC 13332. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

Other

• The Behavior of Titans. New Directions. 1961. OCLC 1086883. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Merton, Thomas (1976). Ishi means man. Unicorn keepsake series. Vol. 8. foreword by Dorothy Day, woodblock by Rita Corbin. Greensboro, N. C.: Unicorn Press. ISBN 0877751005. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |chapterurl= (help)
• Merton, Thomas (1981). The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton. New Directions. ISBN 081120815X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

Poetry

• Thirty Poems. New Directions. 1944. OCLC 1911736. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• A Man in the Divided Sea. New Directions. 1946. OCLC 1454855. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Tears of the Blind Lions. New Directions. 1949. OCLC 224716. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Strange Islands: Poems. New Directions. 1957. OCLC 289506. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Selected Poems. J. Laughlin. 1959. OCLC 123120117. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Emblems of a Season of Fury. New Directions. 1963. OCLC 289508. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Monks Pond: No. 1, 1968. 1968. OCLC 170840170. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Cables to the Ace. New Directions. 1968. OCLC 439169. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Geography of Lograire. New Directions. 1969. OCLC 58131. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton. New Directions. 1977. ISBN 0811206432. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• In The Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton. New Directions. 2005. ISBN 0811216136. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

Social issues

• Seeds of Destruction. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1964. OCLC 306973. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Gandhi on Non-Violence. New Directions. 1965. OCLC 60860722. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Faith and Violence. University of Notre Dame Press. 1968. OCLC 327320. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Non-Violent Alternative. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1980. OCLC 174711710. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters on Religious Experience and Social Concerns (Letters, 1). 1985. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Opening the Bible. 1986. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• A Vow of Conversation: Journals 1964-1965. 1988. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Thomas Merton in Alaska: The Alaskan Conferences, Journals and Letters. 1988. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Road to Joy: Letter to New and Old Friends (Letters, II). 1989. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The School of Charity: Letters on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction (Letters, III). 1990. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers (Letters, IV). 1993. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Witness to Freedom: Letters in Times of Crisis (Letters, V). 1994. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation (Journals, I: 1939-1941). 1995. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer (Journals, II: 1941-1952). 1996. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life (Journals, III: 1952-1960). 1996. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years (Journals, IV: 1960-1963). 1996. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage (Journals, V: 1963- 1965). 1997. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Learning to Love: Exploring Solitude and Freedom (Journals VI: 1966-1967). 1997. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey (Journals VII: 1967-1968. 1998. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals. 1999. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Dialogues with Silence. 2001. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Love and Living. Harcourt Trade Publishers. 2002. ISBN 0156027992. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• The Inner Experience. 2003. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers. 2003. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Peace in a Post-Christian Era. 2004. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

See also

• List of works about Thomas Merton

References

• Breit, Marquita E. (1986). Thomas Merton: A Comprehensive Bibliography. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Breit, Marquita E. (2002). ‘About Merton’: Secondary Sources 1945-2000: A Bibliographic Workbook. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)