The Greatest Books of All Time on Enlightenment

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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
163 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1922 German German
1147 Dialectic Of Enlightenment Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer 1944 German German
3621 Correspondence Voltaire 1751 French French
3638 The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain Han Shan 600 Chinese Classical chinese
3638 Oh, These Times Catherine the Great 1790 Russian Unknown
3638 The History Of The Abderites Christoph Martin Wieland 1774 German German
3807 Critique Of Cynical Reason Peter Sloterdijk 1983 German German
3808 Rousseau and Revolution Will Durant, Ariel Durant 1967 American English
4274 Journey From St. Petersburg To Moscow Alexander Radishchev 1790 Russian Russian
5640 Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker 2018 American English
6504 The Origins Of Totalitarian Democracy J. L. Talmon 1952 British English
6918 English Society In The Eighteenth Century Roy Porter 1982 British English
7215 Hymn To Satan Giosué Carducci 1865 Italian Italian
8340 Platform Sutra Huineng 713 Chinese Chinese
8768 An Introduction To Zen Buddhism D. T. Suzuki 1934 Japanese English
10392 Zhaun Falun Li Hongzhi 1992 Chinese Chinese
11646 A Secular Age Charles Taylor 2007 Canadian English
13359 Micromégas Voltaire 1752 French French
13923 The Buddha And His Religion J. Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire 1860 French French
14232 Catherine The Great Robert K. Massie 2011 American English
14697 Mushotoku Mind Taisen Deshimaru 2012 Japanese English
14952 Persian Letters Montesquieu 1721 French French
14984 Power Of Now Eckhart Tolle 1997 Canadian English
14984 Treasury Of The True Dharma Eye Kazuaki Tanahashi 2010 Japanese Japanese
15855 Shobogenzo Dōgen 1231 Japanese Japanese
15898 Dhammapada Unknown -299 Multiple Pali
17120 The Life of the Mind in America Perry Miller 1965 American English
17120 Evil In Modern Thought Susan Neiman 2002 American English
16925 Buddha Osamu Tezuka 1972 Japanese Japanese
17120 The Pleasures Of The Imagination John Brewer 1997 British English
17120 Barlaam And Josaphat Gui de Cambrai 2014 French Old french
17120 Rasero Francisco Rebolledo 1995 Mexican Spanish
17120 The Revolutionary Temper Robert Darnton 2023 American English
17120 Pirate Enlightenment David Graeber 2023 Unknown English
17120 Flesh In The Age Of Reason Roy Porter 2003 British English
17120 A New Earth Eckhart Tolle 2005 Canadian English
17120 Clarifying The Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual For Mahamudra Dakpo Tashi Namgyal 2004 Tibetan English
17120 Practicing The Power Of Now Eckhart Tolle 1997 Canadian English
17120 The Dark Enlightenment Nick Land 2012 British English