The Greatest Philosophical Books of All Time

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
34 The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt 2024 American English
44 Splinters Leslie Jamison 2024 Unknown English
110 Quantum Drama Jim Baggott, John L. Heilbron 2024 Unknown English
112 The Garden Against Time Olivia Laing 2024 Unknown English
117 Godwin Joseph O'Neill 2024 Unknown English
168 Meditations For Mortals Oliver Burkeman 2024 British English
177 Why We Die Venki Ramakrishnan 2024 Unknown English
190 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czech German
190 On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 1859 British English
190 Minor Detail Adania Shibli 2017 Palestinian Arabic
190 Fratriarchy Juliet Mitchell 2024 British Unknown
190 La Défaite De L'occident Emmanuel Todd 2024 French French
190 Discounting The Future Liliana Doganova 2024 Unknown English
190 Concerning The Future Of Souls Joy Williams 2024 Unknown English
190 The Faber Book Of Aphorisms W. H. Auden 1962 British English
190 Virginia Woolf's Diaries Virginia Woolf 1977 British English
190 The Matter With Things Iain McGilchrist 2021 British English
190 Limitarianism Ingrid Robeyns 2023 Unknown English
190 The Crisis Of Narration Byung-Chul Han 2023 German German
190 Revolutionary Becomings Ying Qian 2024 Unknown English
347 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
347 Tao Te Ching Lao Tsu -300 Chinese Classical chinese
347 Faces Of Moderation Aurelian Craiutu 2016 Unknown English
347 Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life Fintan O'Toole 2002 Irish English
347 Justice And Hope Raimond Gaita 2024 Unknown English
347 John Berger And Me Nikos Papastergiadis 1975 Unknown English
347 The Question Of Palestine Edward W. Said 1979 American English
499 The Allure Of The Multiverse Paul Halpern 2024 American English
499 Coming Of Age Lucy Foulkes 2024 Unknown English
499 Selfish Genes To Social Beings Jonathan Silvertown 2024 Unknown English
519 The Problem With Solutions Julie Guthman 2024 Unknown English
519 Living On Earth Peter Godfrey-Smith 2024 Unknown English
560 What Is It Like To Be Alive? Chris Arthur 2024 Unknown Unknown
560 The Art Of Dying Peter Schjeldahl 2024 American English
580 Waiting For The Fear Oğuz Atay 2024 Unknown English
580 Technofeudalism Yanis Varoufakis 2024 Greek English
685 The Language Puzzle Steven J. Mithen 2024 Unknown Unknown
841 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
899 The City And Its Uncertain Walls Haruki Murakami 2023 Japanese Japanese
981 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
981 Joseph and His Brothers Thomas Mann 1933 German German
981 American Covenant Yuval Levin 2016 American English
981 The Women Are Up To Something Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb 2022 Unknown English
981 The Sovereignty Of Good Iris Murdoch 1970 British English
981 The End Of Law David McIlroy 2019 Unknown English
1074 The Right To Oblivion Lowry Pressly 2024 Unknown English
1074 Life As No One Knows It Sara Imari Walker 2024 Unknown English
1074 Cosmic Connections Charles Taylor 2024 Unknown English
1083 The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 American English
1093 Man in the Holocene Max Frisch 1979 Swiss German
1093 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian Russian
1093 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 1988 Brazilian Portuguese
1093 The Prophet Kahlil Gibran 1923 Lebanese English
1093 A Swim In A Pond In The Rain George Saunders 2021 American English
1093 The Revolt Of The Public And The Crisis Of Authority In The New Millennium Martin Gurri 2014 Unknown English