* Books marked with an asterisk are good books to start with if you are a beginner.

• A Path with Heart – Jack Kornfield *
• A Gradual Awakening – Stephen Levine *
• Loving Kindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (The four Brahma Viharas) *, Faith, A Heart as Wide as the World – all by Sharon Salzberg
• Seeking the Heart of Wisdom – Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield *
• Mindfulness in Plain English*, Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness – both by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
• Radical Acceptance – Tara Brach *
• The Experience of Insight and Insight Meditation – Joseph Goldstein *
• The Miracle of Mindfulness *, Being Peace, Peace in Every Step and Old Path White Clouds – all by Thich Nhat Hanh
• Compassion, The Buddhist Path to Simplicity, Silence, The Boundless Heart – all by Christina Feldman
• Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness – both by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Buddhism Without Beliefs – Stephen Batchelor
• What the Buddha Taught, – Walpola Rahula
• Light on Enlightenment – The Green Buddha – both by Christopher Titmuss
• The Noble Eightfold Path, In The Buddha’s Words – Bhikkhu Bodhi
• One Dharma – Joseph Goldstein
• Being Nobody, Going Nowhere – Ayya Khema
• The Heart of Buddhist Meditation – Nyanaponika Thera
• The Heartwood of Bodhi – Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
• The Mind and the Way – Ajahn Sumedho
• The Beginner’s Guide to Insight Meditation – Arinna Weisman
• A Year to Live, Who Dies, Healing into Life and Death – both by Stephen Levine
• Satipatthana, The Direct Path to Realization – Bhikkhu Analayo
• Living in the Light of Death: On the Art of Being Truly Alive – Larry Rosenberg
• Seeing that Frees – Rob Burbea
• The Life of the Buddha – Bhikkhu Nanamoli
• The Path of Compassion – Fred Epsteiner
• Meditation for Life – Martine Batchelor
• Buddhism Plain and Simple – Steve Hagen
• Peaceful Piggy Meditation (a book for young children and families) – Kerry Lee MacLean
• The Zen Teachings of Huang Po – translated by John Blofeld
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Suzuki Roshi
• When Things Fall Apart, The Wisdom of No Escape and The Places that Scare You – all by Pema Chodron
• The Myth of Freedom and Shambala: Sacred Path of Wisdom, Cutting through Spiritual Materialism – both by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
• Carefree Dignity and Fearless Simplicity – both by Tsoknyi Rinpoche (Dzogchen teachings)

Other Dharma

• Soul without Shame – Byron Brown (about working with the inner critic)
• When the Swans Came to the Lake – Rick Fields (History of Buddhadharma in the West)
• The Power of Now – Eckhard Tolle
• I Am That – Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Freedom from the Known – J. Krishnamurti
• Be As You Are: The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi – David Goodman
• The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi – Published by Shambhala
• Star Bright – Maureen Garth (Meditations for children)
• Diamond Heart, Book One, Elements of the Real in Man – A. H. Almaas
• Toward a Psychology of Awakening – John Welwood (An interface between Buddhism and psychotherapy)

Translations of the Buddha’s teachings

Access to Insight
Access to Insight is a huge library of translations of Theravada Buddhist teachings and more.

Recommended translations
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha – Bhikku Nanamoli & Bhikku Bodhi
The Dhammapada – Gil Fronsdal
The Sutta Nipata – H. Saddhatissa