Thomas Merton

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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1952
  • Latest Book:
    May 2012
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Book List in Order: 10 titles

  • Seven-Storey Mountain

    The fervor of his progress to the Trappist monastery at Gethsemani is deeply moving. It is a difficult matter to write about, but I think there will be many who, however alien the experience may remain to them personally, will put the narrative down ...

  • Seasons of Celebrations


    This work, originally inspired by the liturgical renewal brought on by Vatican II, contains Thomas Merton's meditations on the seasons of the liturgical year. He examines the words, songs, ceremonies, signs, and movements that are designed to ope...

  • Love and Living

    A posthumously published collection of Merton’s essays and meditations centering on the need for love in learning to live. “Love is the revelation of our deepest personal meaning, value, and identity.” Edited by Naomi Burton Stone and ...

  • Waters Of Siloe

    From the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, this book looks at an order of Catholic monks dating back to eleventh-century France.“The word ‘Trappist’ has become synonymous with ‘ascetic’ and definitely indicates a monk who leads a very ha...

  • The New Man

    The New Man shows Thomas Merton at the height of his powers and has as its theme the question of spiritual identity. What must we do to recover possession of our true selves? By way of an answer, Merton discusses how we have become strangers to ourse...

  • The Nonviolent Alternative

    The writings in this work were precipitated by a variety of events during the last decades of Merton's life - the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s among them. His timeless moral integrity and tireless concern for nonviolent solutions to ...

  • Seeds of Contemplation

  • Exile Ends in Glory

    Here is Thomas Merton's biography of Mother Berchmans (1876-1915), a French Trappistine. He had been inspired by her strength of spirit that enabled her to leave behind beloved home in France in order to help grow the struggling Our Lady of the Angel...

  • What Are These Wounds?



  • My Argument with the Gestapo

    Of the full-length prose works that Thomas Merton wrote before he entered the Cistercian Order in 1941, only My Argument with the Gestapo has survived""perhaps in part because it was a book that Merton never ceased wanting to see in print. ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Thomas Merton has published 10 books.

Thomas Merton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, My Argument with the Gestapo, was published in May 2012.

The first book by Thomas Merton, Seven-Storey Mountain, was published in April 1952.

No. Thomas Merton does not write books in series.
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