Below is a bibliography of published works written by Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk of The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani. Several of the works listed here have been published posthumously. The works are listed under each category by date of publication.

Contents

• Autobiographies
• Biblical topics
• Biographies
• Contemplation and meditations
• Eastern thought
• Journal writings
• Letters
• Monastic, church and spiritual life
• Novel
• Poetry
• Social issues
• Other
• See also
• References

Autobiographies

• The Seven Storey Mountain . Harcourt Brace. 1948. OCLC   385657.
• The Sign of Jonas. Harcourt Brace. 1953. OCLC   386887.
• Day of a Stranger. Peregrine Smith. 1981. ISBN   0-87905-092-6. OCLC   7653290.

Biblical topics

• Bread in the Wilderness. New Directions. 1953. OCLC   371126.
• The Living Bread. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1956. OCLC   386309.
• Praying the Psalms . The Liturgical Press. 1956.
• He Is Risen. Argus Communications. 1975. ISBN   0-913592-58-7.

Biographies

• Exile Ends in Glory: The Life of a Trappistine, Mother M. Berchmans, O.C.S.O. Bruce Publishing Company. 1948. OCLC   932012.
• What are these wounds?: The Life of a Cistercian Mystic, Saint Lutgarde of Aywières. Clonmore and Reynolds. 1948. OCLC   2952957.
• The Last of the Fathers: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Encyclical Letter, Doctor Mellifluus. Harcourt Brace. 1954. OCLC   502123.

Contemplation and meditations

• Seeds of Contemplation. New Directions. 1949. OCLC   225115.
• The Ascent to Truth. Harcourt Brace. 1951. OCLC   172787.
• Disputed Questions. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. 1960. OCLC   386651.
• New Seeds of Contemplation. London: Burns & Oates. 1962. OCLC   43261344.
• Raids on the Unspeakable. New Directions. 1966. OCLC   1155682. (Preview at Google Books)
• Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander. DoubleDay. 1966. OCLC   712184.
• The Climate of Monastic Prayer. Liturgical Press. 2018. OCLC   1015271272. [1st published 1968] Republished in the UK asWhere Prayer Flourishes. Canterbury Press. 2018. OCLC   1042336195.
• Contemplative Prayer. Herder and Herder. 1969. OCLC   16848.
• What is Contemplation. Templegate. 1978. [1st published 1950]

Eastern thought

• The Way of Chuang Tzu. New Directions. 1965. OCLC   783366.
• Mystics and Zen Masters. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1967. OCLC   377395.
• Zen and the Birds of Appetite. New Directions. 1968. OCLC   276806.
• The Inner Experience. 2003.

Journal writings

• Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation (The Journals of Thomas Merton, volume I: 1939–1941). 1995.
• Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer (Journals, II: 1941–1952). 1996.
• A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life (Journals, III: 1952–1960). 1996.
• Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years (Journals, IV: 1960–1963). 1996.
• Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage (Journals, V: 1963–1965). 1997.
• Learning to Love: Exploring Solitude and Freedom (Journals VI: 1966–1967). 1997.
• The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey (Journals VII: 1967–1968). 1998.
• The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1959. OCLC   14521398.
• The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton. New Directions. 1973. ISBN   0-8112-0464-2.
• Woods, Shore and Desert: A Notebook, May 1968. Museum of New Mexico Press. 1982. ISBN   0-89013-140-6.
• A Vow of Conversation: Journals 1964–1965. 1988.
• The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals. 1999.
• Cassian and the Fathers: Notes for Conferences Given in the Choir Novitiate, Abbey of Gethsemani. 2005. OCLC   16520690.

Letters

• The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters on Religious Experience and Social Concerns (Letters, I). 1985.
• The Road to Joy: Letter to New and Old Friends (Letters, II). 1989.
• The School of Charity: Letters on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction (Letters, III). 1990.
• The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers (Letters, IV). 1993.
• Witness to Freedom: Letters in Times of Crisis (Letters, V). 1994.
• Merton, Thomas; Czeslaw, Milosz (1997). Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Merton, Thomas; LeClercq, Jean (2002). Survival or Prophecy?: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Jean LeClercq. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Papagni, Mario (2006). The Cold War Letters of Thomas Merton. M.A. Thesis: Spring Hill College. OCLC   51181592.
• Merton, Thomas (2008). William H. Shannon; Christine M. Bochen (eds.). Thomas Merton: A Life In Letters. Harperone. ISBN   978-0-06-134832-7. OCLC   276930483.
• Merton, Thomas (2010). William H. Shannon; Christine M. Bochen (eds.). Thomas Merton: A Life In Letters. Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press. ISBN   978-1-59471-256-2.

Monastic, church and spiritual life

• The Waters of Siloe. Harcourt Brace. 1949. OCLC   386181.
• No Man Is an Island. Harcourt Brace. 1955. OCLC   388043.
• Silence in Heaven. Studio. 1956.
• The Silent Life. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1957. OCLC   774280.
• Thoughts in Solitude. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1958. OCLC   388042.
• The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings From the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century. New Directions. 1960. OCLC   943800.
• Spiritual Direction and Meditation. Liturgical Press. 1960. OCLC   255764.
• The New Man. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1961. OCLC   710446.
• Life and Holiness. Herder and Herder. 1963. OCLC   387439.
• Seasons of Celebration. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1965. OCLC   386274.
• Gethsemani: A Life of Praise. 1966. OCLC   969279.
• Contemplation in a World of Action. Doubleday. 1971. OCLC   127701.
• Cistercian Life . Cistercian Book Services. 1974.
• Merton, Thomas; Hart, Patrick (1977). The Monastic Journey. Sheldon Press. ISBN   0-85969-108-X. OCLC   3423688.
• Merton, Thomas; Burton, Naomi; Hart, Patrick (1979). Love and Living. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN   0-15-653895-4.
• Merton, Thomas; Daggy, Robert E. (1981). Introductions East and West: The Foreign Prefaces of Thomas Merton. Unicorn Press. ISBN   0-87775-139-0. OCLC   59232683.
• Opening the Bible. 1986.
• Thomas Merton in Alaska: The Alaskan Conferences, Journals and Letters. 1988.
• Dialogues with Silence. 2001.
• Love and Living . Harcourt Trade Publishers. 2002. ISBN   0-15-602799-2.
• Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers. 2003.

Novel

• My Argument with the Gestapo: A Macaronic Journal. Doubleday. 1969. OCLC   13332.

Poetry

• Thirty Poems. New Directions. 1944. OCLC   1911736.
• A Man in the Divided Sea. New Directions. 1946. OCLC   1454855.
• The Tears of the Blind Lions. New Directions. 1949. OCLC   224716.
• The Strange Islands: Poems. New Directions. 1957. OCLC   289506.
• Selected Poems. J. Laughlin. 1959. OCLC   123120117.
• Emblems of a Season of Fury. New Directions. 1963. OCLC   289508.
• Monks Pond: No. 1, 1968. 1968. OCLC   170840170.
• Cables to the Ace. New Directions. 1968. OCLC   439169.
• The Geography of Lograire. New Directions. 1969. OCLC   58131.
• The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton. New Directions. 1977. ISBN   0-8112-0643-2.
• In The Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton. New Directions. 2005. ISBN   0-8112-1613-6. OCLC   57414753.

Social issues

• Seeds of Destruction. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1964. OCLC   306973.
• Gandhi on Non-Violence. New Directions. 1965. OCLC   60860722.
• Faith and Violence. University of Notre Dame Press. 1968. OCLC   327320.
• The Non-Violent Alternative. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1980. OCLC   174711710. (Revised ed. of Thomas Merton On Peace. The McCall Publishing Company. 1971.)
• Peace in a Post-Christian Era. 2004.

Other

• The Behavior of Titans. New Directions. 1961. OCLC   1086883.
• 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   0-87775-100-5.
• Merton, Thomas; Hart, Patrick (1981). The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton. New Directions.
• Merton, Thomas (1992). Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master. edited by Laurence S. Cunningham. Paulist Press.

See also

• List of works about Thomas Merton

References

• Breit, Marquita E.; Robert E. Daggy (1986). Thomas Merton: A Comprehensive Bibliography.
• Breit, Marquita E.; Patricia A. Burton; Paul M. Pearson (2002). 'About Merton': Secondary Sources 1945-2000: A Bibliographic Workbook.