Authors whose names are linked have been BatGap guests.
A
- Adyashanti: Emptiness Dancing
- Alexander, Ram: Death Must Die: Based on the Diaries of Atmananda
- Arkin, Alan: An Improvised Life: A Memoir
- Avila, Saint Terese of (edited by E. Allison Peers): Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila
B
- Baker, Ian A.: The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet’s Lost Paradise
- Beck, Martha: Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
- Beck, Martha: The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
- Broug, Marianne: What’s Awakening Really Like? Twenty ordinary people talk about life beyond the spiritual search
- Tigunait, Pandit R.: At the Eleventh Hour: The biography of Swami Rama
- Bernie, Jon: The Unbelievable Happiness of What Is: Beyond Belief to Love, Fulfillment, and Spiritual Awakening
- Bhagavati, Ma Jaya Sati: How God Found Me: Memoirs of an American Guru
- Blackman, Sushila: Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die (Death stories of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, and Zen masters)
- Bucke, Richard Maurice: Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind
- Brand, Russell: Revelation: Connecting with the Sacred in Everyday Life
- Briggs, Steve: India Mirror of Truth
- Briggs, Steve: The Tale of the Himalayan Yogis: The Nirvana Chronicles
- Brunton, Paul: A Search in Secret India
- Byrne, Lorna: Angels in My Hair: The True Story of a Modern-Day Irish Mystic
C
- Camhi, Betty: Sunyata: The Life & Sayings of a Rare-born Mystic
- Carse, David: Perfect Brilliant Stillness
- Chadwick, David: Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
- Chödrön, Pema: Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns and Encountering Naked Reality
- Crane, George: Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia
D
- Da, Adi: The Knee Of Listening: The Divine Ordeal of the Avataric Incarnation of Conscious Light: The Spiritual Autobiography of The Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj
- D’Amico, Stephen: The Incredible State of Absolute Nothingness: A Personal Account of Spiritual Enlightenment
- Dass, Ram: Be Here Now
- Dass, Ram: Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook
- Dass, Ram: Love, Service, Devotion, and the Ultimate Surrender: Ram Dass on The Bhagavad Gita (Audio Learning Course)
- Davis, Roy E.: Paramahansa Yogananda: As I Knew Him: Experiences, Observations, and Reflections of a Disciple
- The Diamond Sutra, spoken in English (YouTube)
E
F
- Fitzpatrick, Alan: Retreat From Untruth
- Foster, Jeff: The Deepest Acceptance: Radical Awakening in Ordinary Life
- Frazier, Jan: When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening
G
- Gilbert, Elisabeth: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
- Gogh, Vincent Van: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
- Goldberg, Natalie: Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir
- Goldberg, Natalie: Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
- Goldberg, Philip: The Life of Yogananda: The Story of the Yogi Who Became the First Modern Guru
- Godman, David: Nothing Ever Happened Volume 1: Papaji Biography
- Godman, David: No mind, I am the self: The lives and teachings of Sri Lakshmana Swamy and Mathru Sri Sarada
- Grozni, Nokolai: Turtle Feet
- Gupta, Mahendranath: Original Gospel of Ramakrishna: Based in M’s English Text
H
- Haich, Elisabeth: Initiation
- Harding, Douglas E.: On Having No Head
- Harrigan, Shivarpita Joan: Stories of Spiritual Transformation: The Fulfillment of Kundalini Process – Modern Seekers, Ancient Teachings
- Harvey, Andrew: A Journey in Ladakh: Encounters with Buddhism
- Harvey, Andrew: Hidden Journey: A Spiritual Awakening
- Harwood, Robert (Bob): Pouring Concrete: A Zen Path to the Kingdom of God Non-Conceptual Awareness Series
- Hawkins, David: Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
- Heruka, Tsangnyon: The Life of Milarepa (Penguin Classics)
- Huxley, Laura A.: This Timeless Moment: A Personal View of Aldous Huxley
I
J
- Jones, Franklin: The knee of listening
K
- Kapleau, Philip: The Three Pillars of Zen
- Katie, Byron: A Mind at Home with Itself: How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around
- King, Godfre Ray: Unreviled Mysteries
- Kornfield, Jack: After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path
- Krishnamurti, UG: Various titles
L
- Lee, Phra Ajaan (transl. Thanissaro Bikkhu): The Autobioraphy of Phra Ajaan Lee
- Linn, Denise: How My Death Saved My Life: And Other Stories on My Journey to Wholeness
- Long, Barry: My Life of Love and Truth: A Spiritual Autobiography
- Lusseyran, Jacques: And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
M
- Maa, Amoda: Various titles
- Maltz, Maxwell: Live and Be Free: Through Psycho-Cybernetics
- Matthiessen, Peter: The Snow Leopard
- Merrell-Wolff, Franklin: Pathways Through to Space: An Experiential Journal
- Merriam, Dena: My Journey Through Time: A Spiritual Memoir of Life, Death, and Rebirth
- Merton, Thomas: The Seven Storey Mountain
- Mill, Alex: A Shift to Love: Zen Stories and Lessons
- Mockett, Marie Mutsuki: Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey
- Monroe, Robert: Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-of-Body Experience (Journeys Trilogy)
- Monroe, Robert: Far Journeys (Journeys Trilogy)
- Monroe, Robert: Ultimate Journey
- Morwood, Joel: Naked Through the Gate: A Spiritual Autobiography
- Mt Shasta, Peter: Search for the Guru: Adventures of a Western Mystic, Book I
- Mt Shasta, Peter: Apprentice to the Masters: Adventures of a Western Mystic, Part II
- Muktananda, Swami, foreword by Zweig, Paul: Play of Consciousness: A Spiritual Autobiography
N
- Nevins, Shawn: Subtraction: The Simple Math of Enlightenment
O
- O’Donohue, John: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
- Osho: Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic
P
- Palmo, Tenzin: Cave in the Snow : A Western Woman’s Quest for Enlightenment
- Pirsig, Robert M.: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
- Pirsig, Robert M.: Lila: An Enquiry into Morals
- Plath, James V.: A Skeptic’s Apprentice: Ashtonishment at the Crumbling Edge of Reality
- Prather, Hugh: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
R
- Razam, Rak: Aya: Awakenings
- Rinpoche, Mingur Yongey: In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
- Roberts, Bernadette: Contemplative: Autobiography of the Early Years
- Roberts, Bernadette: The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey
S
- Satprem: Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness
- Sawyer, Dana: Aldous Huxley: A Biography
- Sawyer, Dana: Huston Smith: Wisdomkeeper: Living The World’s Religions: The Authorized Biography of a 21st Century Spiritual Giant
- Segal, Suzanne: Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self
- Shainberg, Lawrence: Ambivalent Zen : One Man’s Adventures on the Dharma Path
- Shukman, Henry: One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir
- Singh, Kathleen Dowling: The Grace in Living: Recognize It, Trust It, Abide in It
- Smith, David A.: A Record of Awakening
- Singer, Michael A.: The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life’s Perfection
- Spalding, Baird T.: Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East (6 Volume Set)
- Sri M: Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master: A Yogi’s Autobiography
- Sugrue, Thomas: Story of Edgar Cayce: There Is a River
- Suutari, Sanna: The Shortest Journey
- Swami Om: If Truth Be Told: A Monk’s Memoir
T
- Teevens, Cindy: Alchemy: How to Feel Good No Matter What
- Time, Justin: Justin Time: Autobiographical Stories from an American Spiritual Master
- Tolle, Eckhard: The Power of Now
- Trungpa, Chogyam: Born In Tibet
- Twain, Mark: Autobiography of Mark Twain
- Twain, Mark: The Mysterious Stranger
- Tweedie, Irina: Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master
U
- Urrea, Luis Alberto: The Hummingbird’s Daughter
V
- Van der Braak, Andre: Enlightenment Blues: My Years with an American Guru
- Valine, Bob: The Second Birth: Stories of Awakening within the Heart of Community
W
- Weber, Christin L: A Cry in the Desert: The Awakening of Byron Katie
- Weber, Gary: Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening
- Willis, Brad: Warrior Pose: How Yoga (Literally) Saved My Life
Y
- Yogananda: Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship)
- Yunkaporta, Tyson: Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World