Dr. A.W. Tozer’s List of Recommended Books

Dr. A.W. Tozer (whose books you should read) created a list of recommended books. This list is of course many years old (he died in 1963), and some of the books mentioned are out of print. However, you may be able to find them second-hand or available online. I have added links from Amazon where they are in print.

Note by Jadewriting.com: These books are almost all by Christian mystics. It is possible that Tozer recommended them because they are somewhat obscure, and evangelicals tend not to read such things. As part of a balanced reading plan they are of untold value.

In recommending these books Dr. Tozer did not mean to put his stamp of approval on the entire contents. Rather they were offered as products of men and women who ardently loved their Lord; if any doctrinal defects should appear these would be far overbalanced by the spiritual verities.

• Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, Jan van Ruysbroeck
• Amendment of Life, Richard Rolle
• The Ascent of Mt. Carmel, John of the Cross
• The Ascent of Mt. Zion, Berdardino de Laredo
• A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom, Henry Suso
• Centuries of Meditations, Thomas Traherne
• Christian Perfection, Fénelon
• The Cloud of Unknowing, Anonymous
• Confessions, St. Augustine
• The Dark Night of the Soul, John of the Cross
• The Goad of Love, Walter Hilton
• A Guide to True Peace, Molinos and others
• Hymns, Gerhard Tersteegen
• Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis
• Introduction to the Devout Life, De Sales
• Letters of Direction, de Tourville
• On the Incarnation, Athanasius (also available here)
• On the Love of God, Bernard of Clairvaux
• Poems, Frederick Faber (available on the present web site)
• Poems, Isaac Watts (available on the present web site)
• Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence
• Private Devotions, Lancelot Andrewes
• Proslogium, Anselm
• The Quiet Way, Gerhard Tersteegen
• Revelations of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich
• The Scale of Perfection, Walter Hilton
• Sermons, John Tauler
• Sermons on the Song of Songs, Bernard of Clairvaux
• The Spiritual Combat, Lorenzo Scupoli
• The Spiritual Guide, Michael Molinos
• Talks of Instruction, Meister Eckhart
• A Testament of Devotion, Thomas Kelly
• Theologia Germanica, (Winkworth Translation), Anonymous
• The Vision of God, Nicholas of Cusa
• The Way to Christ, Jacob Boehme