Books By Nouwen

Books by Henri Nouwen – The Canon (Chronological)

This is the chronological listing of Henri Nouwen’s work – his canon.  To learn more about his work, click on any link to be directed to our Publisher pages that provides a description, reviews and pricing.

The Notre Dame Years 1966-1968

• Intimacy (1969) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Creative Ministry (1971) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher

The Yale Years 1971-1981

• Thomas Merton: Contemplative Critic (1972)
  (Published as Encounters With Merton: Spiritual Reflection (2004)) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• With Open Hands (Apr 1972) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society (1972) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Out Of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life (1974) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Aging: The Fulfillment of Life (1974) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life (1975) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• The Genesee Diary (1976) Purchase USA | Canada  | Publisher
• The Living Reminder: Service and Prayer in Memory of Jesus Christ (1977) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Clowning In Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation (1979) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• In Memoriam (1980)
  (Reissued as a A Sorrow Shared: A Combined Edition of the Nouwen Classics “In Memoriam” and “A Letter of Consolation” (2010)) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Making All Things New: An Invitation to the Spiritual Life (1981) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• The Way Of The Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (1981) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• A Cry For Mercy: Prayers from the Genesee (1981) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life (1982) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• A Letter Of Consolation (1982)
  (Reissued as a A Sorrow Shared: A Combined Edition of the Nouwen Classics “In Memoriam” and “A Letter of Consolation” (2010)) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher

Latin America Interlude 1981-1982

• Gracias!: A Latin American Journal (1983) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Love In A Fearful Land: A Guatemalan Story (1985) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher

The L’Arche Years 1986-1996

• Behold The Beauty Of The Lord: Praying With Icons (1987) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• The Road To Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey (1988) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Letters To Marc About Jesus: Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World (1988) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• In The Name Of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership (1989) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Heart Speaks To Heart: Three Gospel Meditations on Jesus (1989) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Walk With Jesus: Stations of the Cross (1990, 2015) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Beyond The Mirror: Reflections on Life and Death (1990) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Life Of The Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World (1992) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• The Return Of The Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming (1992) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Jesus & Mary: Finding Our Sacred Center (1993)
  (Please note: this book is out of print.  Half of the book has been published in Finding Our Sacred Center: A Journey to Inner Peace (2011)) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Here And Now: Living in the Spirit (1994) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring (1994) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life (1994) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• The Path Series (1995) (Published as Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the Spirit (2001)) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Ministry And Spirituality (1996) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher

The Final Year 1996

• The Inner Voice Of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom (1996) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Can You Drink The Cup? (1996) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Sabbatical Journey: The Diary of His Final Year (1997) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Adam: God’s Beloved (1997) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Bread For The Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith (1997) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Spiritual Journals: Genesee Diary, Gracias and The Road To Daybreak (1997) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher

Posthumous – including reissues of classics and combined volumes of books by Henri Nouwen

• The Primacy of the Heart: Cuttings from a Journal, edited by Lewy Olfson (St. Benedict Center, 1988) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Ministry and Spirituality: Creative Ministry, The Wounded Healer, Reaching Out (Continuum, 1996) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Spiritual Journals: Genesee Diary, Gracias, The Road to Daybreak (Continuum, 1997) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the Spirit (Crossroad, 2001) (formerly The Path Series) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• A Spirituality of Fundraising (2004/2010) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community (2005) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Our Second Birth (condensed edition of Sabbatical Journey) (Crossroad, 2006) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• The Selfless Way Of Christ: Downward Mobility and the Spiritual Life (2007) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Home Tonight: Further Reflections on the Parable of the Prodigal Son (2009) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• A Sorrow Shared: In Memoriam and A Letter of Consolation (Ave Maria Press, 2010); foreword by Barbara Brown Taylor Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Finding Our Sacred Center: A Journey to Inner Peace (Twenty-third Publications, 2011) (previously published in Jesus and Mary)) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles (HarperOne, 2016) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life (Deckle Edge, 2016) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety (Penguin Random House, 2019) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher
• A Spirituality of Fundraising Workbook (2019) Purchase USA | Canada | Publisher