Complete works of Thomas Merton (108)

1. 1944 Thirty Poems · New Directions
2. 1946 A Man in the Divided Sea · New Directions
3. 1948 Exile Ends in Glory · Life of Trappistine Mother M. Berchmans
4. 1948 The Seven Storey Mountain · Autobiography
5. 1948 What Are These Wounds? · Life of St. Lutgarde of Aywières
6. 1949 Seeds of Contemplation · Spiritual essays
7. 1949 The Tears of the Blind Lions · New Directions
8. 1949 The Waters of Siloe · History of the Trappist order in America
9. 1951 The Ascent to Truth · On St. John of the Cross and contemplative knowledge
10. 1953 Bread in the Wilderness · Meditations on the Psalms
11. 1953 The Sign of Jonas · Journals
12. 1954 The Last of the Fathers · On St. Bernard of Clairvaux, with the encyclical Doctor Mellifluus
13. 1955 No Man Is an Island · Meditations on the spiritual life
14. 1956 Praying the Psalms · Short essay
15. 1956 Silence in Heaven: A Book of the Monastic Life · Text by Merton with 90 photographs of monastic life
16. 1956 The Living Bread · On the Eucharist
17. 1957 The Silent Life · On contemplative monasticism, reworked from material cut from Silence in Heaven
18. 1957 The Strange Islands · New Directions
19. 1958 Thoughts in Solitude · Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
20. 1959 Selected Poems · New Directions
21. 1959 The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton · Pre-monastic journal, 1939–41
22. 1960 Disputed Questions · Essays
23. 1960 Spiritual Direction and Meditation · Liturgical Press
24. 1960 The Wisdom of the Desert · Translated sayings of the Desert Fathers, with Merton's introduction
25. 1961 The Behavior of Titans · Essays
26. 1961 The New Man · Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
27. 1962 Clement of Alexandria: Selections from the Protreptikos · Essay and translation, hand-printed limited edition of 750 copies
28. 1962 New Seeds of Contemplation · Spiritual essays
29. 1963 Emblems of a Season of Fury · New Directions
30. 1963 Life and Holiness · Herder & Herder
31. 1964 Seeds of Destruction · Essays on race and social justice
32. 1965 Gandhi on Non-Violence · Selections from Gandhi's writings, with Merton's introduction
33. 1965 Seasons of Celebration · Essays on liturgy and feasts
34. 1965 The Way of Chuang Tzu · Free verse renderings of the Taoist philosopher
35. 1966 Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander · Essays
36. 1966 Gethsemani: A Life of Praise · Text by Merton with abbey photographs
37. 1966 Raids on the Unspeakable · Essays and prose poems
38. 1967 Mystics and Zen Masters · Essays comparing Christian and Zen contemplatives
39. 1968 Cables to the Ace · New Directions
40. 1968 Faith and Violence · University of Notre Dame Press
41. 1968 Zen and the Birds of Appetite · Essays including his exchange with D.T. Suzuki
42. 1969 My Argument with the Gestapo · Autobiographical novel written 1941
43. 1969 The Climate of Monastic Prayer · Cistercian Publications
44. 1969 The Geography of Lograire · New Directions
45. 1971 Contemplation in a World of Action · Essays on monastic renewal this record
46. 1973 The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton · Journal of his final 1968 Asia trip, ending in his death
47. 1974 Cistercian Life · Abbey of Gethsemani
48. 1975 He Is Risen · Meditations on the Resurrection
49. 1976 Ishi Means Man · Essays on Native Americans
50. 1977 The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton · New Directions
51. 1977 The Monastic Journey · Ed. Patrick Hart
52. 1978 A Catch of Anti-Letters · Playful correspondence with Robert Lax, 1962–67
53. 1978 What Is Contemplation · Essay written 1948, first published 1950
54. 1979 Love and Living · Essays
55. 1980 The Nonviolent Alternative · Revised, expanded ed. of 1971's Thomas Merton on Peace
56. 1981 Day of a Stranger · Short prose meditation on solitude at the hermitage
57. 1981 Introductions East and West: The Foreign Prefaces of Thomas Merton · Greensboro: Unicorn Press, 1981
58. 1981 The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton · Ed. Patrick Hart
59. 1982 Woods, Shore, Desert: A Notebook, May 1968 · Museum of New Mexico Press
60. 1984 Merton: By Those Who Knew Him Best · New York: Harper & Row, 1984
61. 1985 Eighteen Poems · Love poems for “M.,” written 1966
62. 1985 The Hidden Ground of Love · Letters, vol. 1 of 5: religious experience & social concerns
63. 1986 Opening the Bible · Liturgical Press
64. 1988 A Vow of Conversation: Journals 1964–1965 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
65. 1988 Encounter: Thomas Merton & D.T. Suzuki · Correspondence with the Zen scholar
66. 1988 Thomas Merton in Alaska · Conferences, journals & letters from his 1968 Alaska trip
67. 1989 Honorable Reader: Reflections on My Work · Collected prefaces to foreign editions of his books, expanding 1981's Introductions East and West
68. 1989 Monks Pond: Thomas Merton's Little Magazine · Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989
69. 1989 The Road to Joy · Letters, vol. 2 of 5: to new & old friends
70. 1990 The School of Charity · Letters, vol. 3 of 5: religious renewal & spiritual direction
71. 1992 The Springs of Contemplation · 1967–68 retreat talks to contemplative sisters
72. 1992 Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master: The Essential Writings · Paulist Press, 1992
73. 1993 The Courage for Truth · Letters, vol. 4 of 5: to writers
74. 1994 Witness to Freedom · Letters, vol. 5 of 5: in times of crisis
75. 1995 At Home in the World · Correspondence with Rosemary Radford Ruether, 1966–68
76. 1995 Passion for Peace: The Social Essays · Anthology of peace and nonviolence writings, 1961–68
77. 1995 Run to the Mountain · Journals of Thomas Merton, vol. 1 of 7 (1939–1941)
78. 1996 A Search for Solitude · Journals, vol. 3 of 7 (1952–1960)
79. 1996 Entering the Silence · Journals, vol. 2 of 7 (1941–1952)
80. 1996 Turning Toward the World · Journals, vol. 4 of 7 (1960–1963)
81. 1997 Dancing in the Water of Life · Journals, vol. 5 of 7 (1963–1965)
82. 1997 Learning to Love · Journals, vol. 6 of 7 (1966–1967)
83. 1997 Striving Towards Being · Correspondence with Czeslaw Milosz
84. 1997 Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters · Correspondence with his New Directions publisher
85. 1998 The Other Side of the Mountain · Journals, vol. 7 of 7 (1967–1968), ending with his death
86. 1999 The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals · One-volume abridgment of the 7-vol. Journals
87. 2000 When Prophecy Still Had a Voice · Complete Merton–Lax correspondence (346 letters)
88. 2001 Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings · Prayers drawn from his journals, with his artwork
89. 2002 Survival or Prophecy? · Correspondence with Jean Leclercq
90. 2003 Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers · Orbis Books
91. 2003 The Inner Experience · Notes on contemplation, from an unpublished 1959 manuscript
92. 2003 When the Trees Say Nothing: Thoughts on Nature · Notre Dame: Sorin, 2003
93. 2005 Cassian and the Fathers · Initiation into the Monastic Tradition, vol. 1 of 9
94. 2005 In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems · Ed. Lynn R. Szabo
95. 2006 Cold War Letters · 111 letters from 1961–62 on nuclear war & pacifism
96. 2006 Pre-Benedictine Monasticism · Initiation into the Monastic Tradition, vol. 2 of 9
97. 2008 An Introduction to Christian Mysticism · Initiation into the Monastic Tradition, vol. 3 of 9
98. 2008 Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters · One-volume selection across his correspondence
99. 2009 Compassionate Fire · Correspondence with Catherine de Hueck Doherty
100. 2009 The Rule of Saint Benedict · Initiation into the Monastic Tradition, vol. 4 of 9
101. 2010 Monastic Observances · Initiation into the Monastic Tradition, vol. 5 of 9
102. 2012 The Life of the Vows · Initiation into the Monastic Tradition, vol. 6 of 9
103. 2014 The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer · “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam”
104. 2015 Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians · Initiation into the Monastic Tradition, vol. 7 of 9
105. 2015 The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton · Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015
106. 2016 The Cistercian Fathers and Their Monastic Theology · Initiation into the Monastic Tradition, vol. 8 of 9, on St. Bernard
107. 2017 From the Monastery to the World · Complete correspondence with Ernesto Cardenal, 1959–68, tr. Jessie Sandoval
108. 2019 Medieval Cistercian History · Initiation into the Monastic Tradition, vol. 9 of 9