Books I Have Loved – A List of all books mentioned by OSHO Rajneesh as his favorites

Osho Rajneesh

Osho was a voracious reader. It is said that he read more than 100,000 books! Here’s a list of books that Osho himself dictated as his ‘favorites’. Osho’s disciple Devgeet took notes of it while Osho was describing the list of books he loved and why he loved. A dedicated book then was published with title as Books I Have Loved.

1. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
2. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. The Book of Mirdad by Mikhail Naimy
4. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
5. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
6. The Parables of Chuang Tzu
7. The Sermon on the Mount
8. Bhagavad-Gita by Krishna
9. Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
10. The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
11. The Book of the Sufis
12. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
13. The Book of Lieh Tzu
14. Dialogue on Socrates by Plato
15. The Notes of the Disciples of Bodhidarma
16. The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam
17. Masnavi by Jalaluddin Rumi
18. The Isa Upanishad
19. All and Everything by George Gurdjieff
20. In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky
21. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
22. Hsin Hsin Ming by Sosan
23. Tertium Organum by P. D. Ouspensky
24. Geet Govinda by Jayadev
25. Samayasar by Kundkunda
26. The First and the Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti
27. The Book/Teachings of Huang Po
28. The Book of Hui Hi
29. The Song of Solomon
30. The Fragments by Heraclitus
31. The Golden Verses by Pythagoras
32. The Royal Song by Saraha
33. Tilopa’s Song of Mahamudra
34. Zen and Japanese Culture by D. T. Suzuki
35. Let Go by Hubert Benoit
36. Ramakrishna’s Parables
37. The Fables of Aesop
38. Mula Madhyamika Karika by Nagarjuna
39. The Book of Marpa
40. Brahma Sutras by Badrayana
41. Bhakti Sutras by Narada
42. Yoga Sutras by Patanjali
43. The Songs of Kabir
44. The Secret Doctrine by Madame Blavatsky
45. The Songs of Meera
46. The Songs of Sahajo
47. The Book of Rabiya-al-Adabiya
48. The Songs of Nanak
49. Vivek Chudamani by Shankaracharya
50. The Koran – Hazrat Mohammed
51. The Dhammapada – Buddha
52. Jaina Sutras – Mahavira
53. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
54. The Declarations of Al-Hillaj Mansoor
55. The Fragments of Mahakashyapa
56. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
57. The Stories of Baal Shem Tov
58. The Songs of Farid
59. Vigyana Bhairava Tantra – Shiva
60. Tatva Sutra by Uma Swati
61. The Songs of Naropa
62. The Poetry of Malukdas
63. Guru Grantha Sahib (the book of the Sikhs)
64. The Light on the Path by Mabel Collins
65. The Songs of Lalla
66. Words of Gorakh-Nath
67. The Supreme Doctrine by Hubert Benoit
68. Shiva Sutra
69. Message of Gaurang
70. The Songs of Dadu
71. The Statements of Sarmad
72. The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
73. A New Model of the Universe by P. D. Ouspensky
74. The Statements of Sanai
75. The Fragments of Dionysius
76. At the Feet of the Master by Jiddhu Krishnamurti
77. The Fragments of Junnaid
78. God Speaks by Meher Baba
79. Maxims for a Revolutionary by George Bernard Shaw
80. The Teachings of Hui Neng
81. The Jokes of Mulla Nasruddin
82. The Destiny of the Mind by Haas
83. The Sayings of Eckhart
84. The Sayings of Boehme
85. The Sufis by Idries Shah
86. The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
87. The Sayings of Rinzai by Lin Chi
88. The Lectures of Hazrat Inayat Khan
89. All of the books by Hazrat Ali Khan
90. Jesus, the Son of Man by Kahlil Gibran
91. The Madman by Kahlil Gibran
92. Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre
93. Time and Being by Martin Heidegger
94. Tractatus Logico Philisophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
95. Nirdesh Sutra by Vimalkirti
96. Commentaries on Living by J. Krishnamurti
97. Commentaries by Maurice Nicoll
98. Our Life with Gurdjieff by Hartmann
99. Shree Pasha by Ramanuja
100. The Future Psychology of Man by P.D. Ouspensky
101. The Book of Bahauddin
102. The Outsider by Colin Wilson
103. The Analects by Confusius
104. The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
105. The Voice of the Master by Kahlil Gibran
106. Who am I by Maharshi Ramana
107. The Mind of India by Moorehead and Radhakrishnan
108. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
109. Alice through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
110. The Wanderer by Kahlil Gibran
111. The Spiritual Sayings by Kahlil Gibran
112. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
113. Tales of Hassidism by Martin Buber
114. I and Thou by Martin Buber
115. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
116. Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
117. Meetings with Remarkable Men by Gurdjieff
118. The Grantha by a disciple of Kabir
119. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
120. The Myth of Sisyphus by Marcel
121. The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
122. The Songs of Daya bai
123. Lust for Life by Irving Stone
124. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
125. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
126. Notes on Jesus by Thomas
127. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
128. The Mother by Maxim Gorky
129. Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
130. The Phoenix by D.H. Lawrence
131. Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious by D.H. Lawrence
132. Light of Asia by Arnold
133. Bijak by Kabir
134. One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
135. The I Ching
136. Nadi Ke Dvip (Islands of a River) by Sacchidanand Vatsayana
137. The Art of Living by Lin Yutang
138. The Wisdom of China by Lin Yutang
139. The Talmud
140. Shunya Svabhava by Taran Taran
141. Siddhi Svabhava by Taran Taran
142. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
143. Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
144. Psychosynthesis by Assagioli
145. Prose Poems by Kahlil Gibran
146. Thoughts and Meditations by Kahlil Gibran
147. My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
148. Confessions by Saint Augustine
149. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
150. The Art of Tantra by Ajit Mukherjee
151. The Tantra Paintings by Ajit Mukherjee
152. Bhaj Govindam moodh mate by Adi Shankaracharya
153. Philosophical Papers by Ludwig Wittgenstein
154. Zen Flesh Zen Bones – Paul Reps
155. Zen Buddhism by Christmas Humphries
156. The Songs of Chandidas
157. Shiva Puri Baba by Bennett
158. Listen Little Man by Wilhelm Reich
159. Principia Mathematica by Bertrand Russell and Whitehead
160. Poetics by Aristotle
161. Three Pillars of Zen by Ross
162. The Gospel of Ramakrishna by Mahendranath
163. The collected works of Ramatirtha
164. Principa Ethica by G.E. Moore
165. The Songs of Rahim by Rahim Khan Khana)
166. Divan by Mirza Ghalib
167. The Book by Alan Watts