What the Buddha Taught - Walpola Rahula

 

Way of Zen - Alan Watts

 

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind  - Shunryu Suzuki

    (To be read slowly, one or two chapters per week)

 

Buddha  - Karen Armstrong

 

The Dhammapada

 

Cultivating the mind of Love - Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Zen Buddhism: A History   - Heinrich Dumoulin

    Volume I: India and China

    Volume II: Japan

 

 

 

Thus Have I heard - Maurice Walshe

    (The Digha Nikaya Sutra)

 

Shobogenzo - Eihei Dogen

    (Start with Genjokoan. 
      Note that Dogen is difficult for westerners.  
      Study him with others, if possible.)

 

Two Zen Classics - Katsuki Sekida

    (Two collections of Zen koans)

 

The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch