Each book is one that I found interesting. I own these so they are the only ones included here; I am sure there are many more worthy of interest. A few of these books have been published several times and re-copyrighted (all the copies I have are in paperback); the year shown below is the initial date of publication, not the latest.

Year	Title	Author(s)	Description or Subtitle
1940	The Meaning of Happiness	Alan W. Watts	The quest for freedom of the spirit in modern psychology and the wisdom of the East (book)
1949	The Supreme Identity	Alan W. Watts	An essay on oriental metaphysic and the Christian religion (book)
1956	Zen Buddhism	William Barrett	Selected writings of D. T. Suzuki, Zen's chief exponent in English (book)
1958	The Spirit of Zen	Allan W. Watts	a way of life, work and art in the far east (book)
1958	Nature, Man and Woman	Allan W. Watts	A reflection upon a great human problem in light of the Chinese view of nature. The problem of man's relation to nature raises the problem of man's relation to woman. (book)
1966	The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are	Alan W. Watts	perhaps the most famous of all Watts' works, pursuing an answer to the question who am I? (book)
1968	Does It Matter?	Alan W. Watts	Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality (book)
1968	The Religions of Mankind	Hans-Joachim Schoeps	Their Origin and Development (book)
1975	Tao the Watercourse Way	Alan W. Watts	a discussion of Taoism and the Chinese language (book)
1975	The Tao of Physics	Fritjof Capra	a pioneering work that reconciles eastern philosophy and western science in a brilliant humanistic vision of the universe (book)
1996	Everyday Tao	Deng Ming-Dao	subtitle: living with balance and harmony (book)
2006	Wanting Enlightenment is a Big Mistake	Hyon Gak	Subtitle: Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn (book)

I have discovered that there is a web site about Alan Watts: Alan Watts, including several writings. Here is his wiki entry.

Some time ago, a reader of my web site pointed out that an article published by Alan Watts in 1973 was available on the web. However, a few months later the link was no longer valid. Here is a copy of that 1973 article that was given to me: The World's Most Dangerous Book.

There are also books that are religion related and so they could be in this list. Since those books are about both political history and religion (for example, The Reformation) they are listed on my page of political books.

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