The Greatest Books of All Time on Consciousness

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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
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
245 Nausea Jean Paul Sartre 1938 French French
257 Finnegans Wake James Joyce 1939 Irish English
327 Solaris Stanislaw Lem 1961 Polish Polish
532 The Passion According to G.H. Clarice Lispector 1964 Brazilian Portuguese
638 Being and Nothingness Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
822 I, Robot Isaac Asimov 1950 American English
1058 Memories, Dreams, Reflections Carl Jung 1963 Swiss German
1295 Phenomenology of Mind G. W. F. Hegel 1807 German German
1342 The Principles of Psychology William James 1890 American English
1421 Ubik Philip K. Dick 1969 American English
1452 History And Class Consciousness Georg Lukacs 1923 German German
1681 The Teachings Of Don Juan Carlos Castaneda 1968 American English
1987 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks 1985 British English
2293 Consciousness Explained Daniel Dennett 1991 American English
2564 The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology Edmund Husserl 1936 German German
2635 Logical Investigations Edmund Husserl 1900 German German
2752 Psychological Types Carl Jung 1921 Swiss German
2878 Palace of the Peacock Wilson Harris 1960 Guyanese English
2995 The Doors Of Perception Aldous Huxley 1954 British English
3055 The Sinful Ones Fritz Leiber 1953 American English
3211 Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari 2015 Israeli Hebrew
3561 Insight Bernard Lonergan 1957 Canadian English
3638 The Life Divine Sri Aurobindo 1942 Indian English
3638 An Outline Of Occult Science Rudolf Steiner 1910 Austrian German
3850 Fourth Mansions R. A. Lafferty 1969 American English
4253 Dianetics L. Ron Hubbard 1950 American English
4310 The Victorian Chaise Longue Marghanita Laski 1953 British English
4759 Claros Del Bosque María Zambrano 1977 Spanish Spanish
4857 Zettels Traum Arno Schmidt 1970 German German
5448 The Politics of Ecstasy Timothy Leary 1968 American English
5702 Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie 2013 American English
5718 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
5734 Time And Space Juan Ramón Jiménez 1988 Spanish Spanish
5910 Thomas The Obscure Maurice Blanchot 1941 French French
6005 Leaves of Hypnos René Char 1946 French French
6005 Les Métamorphoses Du Cercle Georges Poulet 1961 Belgian French
6005 Madness Of The Day Maurice Blanchot 1949 French French
6204 The Bridge Iain Banks 1986 Scottish English
6259 Moments Of Being Virginia Woolf 1976 British English
6371 The Candle Of Vision George William Russell 1974 Irish English
6375 The Feeling Of What Happens Antonio Damasio 1999 Portuguese English
6433 La Jeune Parque Paul Valéry 1917 French French
6437 Blood Music Greg Bear 1985 American English
6556 Žmogus, Kuris Miega Georges Perec 1967 French French
6575 Phenomenology Of Perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1945 French French
6678 The Concept Of Mind Gilbert Ryle 1949 British English
6716 How To Change Your Mind Michael Pollan 2018 American English
6715 The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind Julian Jaynes 1976 American English
6899 Exhalation Ted Chiang 2019 American English
7216 The Geographical History Of America Gertrude Stein 1936 American English
7699 La Orilla Oscura José María Merino 1985 Spanish Spanish
7861 Selected Writings Paul Valéry 1950 French French
7894 Communion Whitley Strieber 1987 American English
7915 Musicophilia Oliver Sacks 2007 British English
8009 Collected Poems Conrad Aiken 1953 American English
8052 Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Paulo Freire 1970 Brazilian Portuguese
8178 Three Novels Samuel Beckett 1955 Irish French
8263 Ideas Edmund Husserl 1913 German German
8320 A Brief History Of Everything Ken Wilber 1996 American English
8852 The Emperor's New Mind Roger Penrose 1989 British English
9192 The Accidental Universe Alan Lightman 2014 American English
9312 Wholeness And The Implicate Order David Bohm 1980 British English
9722 The Terminal Experiment Robert J. Sawyer 1995 Canadian English
9756 The Dragons of Eden Carl Sagan 1977 American English
9800 I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein 1970 American English
10139 Sphere A. R. Ammons 1978 American English
10170 The Pale King David Foster Wallace 2011 American English
10210 Neuromaani Jaakko Yli-Juonikas 2012 Finnish Finnish
10245 The New Science of Politics Eric Voegelin 1952 Austrian English
10308 Sense And Non Sense Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1948 French French
10411 Selected Longer Poems A. R. Ammons 1980 American English
10423 Internal Ecology Morals For Xxi Century Dario Salas Sommer 2007 Chilean Spanish
10453 Why Does The World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt 2012 American English
10508 Shadows Of The Mind Roger Penrose 1994 British English
10927 Stirrings Still Samuel Beckett 1988 Irish English
11028 Ways Of Being Alive Baptiste Morizot 2020 French French
11570 Ghostwritten David Mitchell 1999 British English
11874 Awakenings Oliver Sacks 1973 British English
11890 Flow Chart John Ashbery 1991 American English
11927 Ancillary Mercy Ann Leckie 2015 American English
11941 The Thought and Character of William James Ralph Barton Perry 1935 American English
12066 Les Thanatonautes Bernard Werber 1994 French French
12175 Tibetan Book Of The Dead Robert Thurman 1994 Tibetan English
12225 The Tao of Physics Fritjof Capra 1975 Austrian English
12496 The Mind's I Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett 1981 American English
13362 Two Essays on Analytical Psychology Carl Jung 1921 Swiss German
13362 On Having No Head Douglas Harding 1961 British English
13560 The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons 1990 American English
13712 Creative Evolution Henri Bergson 1907 French French
13731 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick 2002 American English
13794 The Ghost In The Shell Shirow Masamune 1989 Japanese Japanese
14122 Life 3.0 Max Tegmark 2017 Swedish English
14642 Somos Luces Abismales Carolina Sanin 2018 Colombian Spanish
14726 De Anima Aristotle -350 Greek Ancient greek
14779 Monsieur Teste Paul Valéry 1896 French French
14788 The Tibetan Book of the Dead Padmasambhava, Karma Lingpa 1350 Tibetan Tibetan
14866 Donovan's Brain Curt Siodmak 1942 American English
14941 Man and His Symbols Carl Jung 1964 Swiss English
14962 The Sovereignty Of Good Iris Murdoch 1970 British English
14985 Count Zero William Gibson 1986 American English
14985 The Dancing Wu Li Masters Gary Zukav 1979 American English
14985 Power Of Now Eckhart Tolle 1997 Canadian English
14985 Altered Carbon Richard Morgan 2002 British English
14985 The Jonah Kit Ian Watson 1975 British English
14985 The Body Yasuo Yuasa 1987 Japanese Japanese
15567 Beyond Words Carl Safina 2015 American English
15594 The Making Of A Counter Culture Theodore Roszak 1969 American English
15616 The Greening Of America Charles A. Reich 1970 American English
15686 Literature And Existentialism Jean Paul Sartre French French
15916 An Introduction to Metaphysics Henri Bergson 1903 French French
15916 The Hasheesh Eater Fitz Hugh Ludlow 1857 American English
15916 Simulacron 3 Daniel F. Galouye 1964 American English
15916 An Inquiry Into The Good Nishida Kitarō 1911 Japanese Japanese
15916 Gadādhara's Śaktivāda Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya 1650 Unknown Sanskrit
15916 Idealism And The Endgame Of Theory F. W. J. Schelling 1800 German German
15916 The Literary Work Of Art Roman Ingarden 1931 Polish German
15916 The Selected Letters Of William James William James 1920 American English
16646 Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1950 Armenian Russian
16675 The Undiscovered Self C.G. Jung 1957 Swiss German