The Greatest Books of All Time on Experience

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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
1112 The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake William Blake 1827 British English
1229 Songs of Innocence and Experience William Blake 1789 British English
1327 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke 1689 British English
1611 The Prelude William Wordsworth 1850 British English
1721 Pragmatism William James 1907 American English
1962 The Prose Of The Trans Siberian Blaise Cendrars 1913 French French
1966 Truth And Method Hans-Georg Gadamer 1960 German German
2356 The Fruits of the Earth André Gide 1897 French French
2416 Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798 British English
2635 Logical Investigations Edmund Husserl 1900 German German
2995 The Doors Of Perception Aldous Huxley 1954 British English
3527 Poetry and the Age Randall Jarrell 1953 American English
6174 Philosophy and Civilization John Dewey 1931 American English
6575 Phenomenology Of Perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1945 French French
7743 My Life and My Life in the Nineties Lyn Hejinian 1980 American English
8031 Sea And Sardinia D. H. Lawrence 1921 British English
8189 Experience And Nature John Dewey 1925 American English
8246 Old Times On The Mississippi Mark Twain 1876 American English
8262 Ideas Edmund Husserl 1913 German German
8647 Treatises On Friendship And Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero -44 Latin Latin
8725 In Praise Of Older Women Stephen Vizinczey 1965 Canadian English
9184 The Writer on Her Work Janet Sternburg 1980 American English
9857 The Meaning of Truth William James 1909 American English
10305 Sense And Non Sense Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1948 French French
10744 Farm Hands Tom Rivers 2012 American English
11939 The Thought and Character of William James Ralph Barton Perry 1935 American English
12067 How We Think John Dewey 1910 American English
13244 When God Talks Back Tanya Luhrmann 2012 American English
13818 Quasi Una Vita Corrado Alvaro 1950 Italian Italian
13818 La Vita Ingenua Vittorio Gorresio 1956 Italian Unknown
14410 Youth, A Narrative Joseph Conrad 1898 British English
14409 The Life Of Reason George Santayana 1905 American English
14984 The Bounds Of Sense P. F. Strawson 1966 British English
15902 Experience and Education John Dewey 1938 American English
15902 An Introduction to Metaphysics Henri Bergson 1903 French French
15902 The Hasheesh Eater Fitz Hugh Ludlow 1857 American English
15902 An Inquiry Into The Good Nishida Kitarō 1911 Japanese Japanese
15902 The Literary Work Of Art Roman Ingarden 1931 Polish German
15902 Between Meals A. J. Liebling 1962 American English
15902 Three Days To See Helen Keller 1933 American English
17131 Time Warped Claudia Hammond 2012 British English
17131 Magic Trees Of The Mind Marion Diamond, Janet Hopson 1998 American English
17131 The Routledge Handbook Of Panpsychism William Seager 2020 Canadian English
17131 Sense And Sensibilia J. L. Austin 1962 British English
17131 Real Materialism And Other Essays Galen Strawson 2008 British English
17131 Time And Narrative (Time & Narrative) Paul Ricœur 1983 French French
17131 Raving McKenzie Wark 2023 Unknown English
17131 Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend M.J. Wassmer Unknown Unknown
17131 A Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics Immanuel Kant German Unknown
17131 What Is Existential Anthropology? Michael D. Jackson New Zealand English