The Greatest Books of All Time on Humanism

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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
145 Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais 1532 French French
923 The World Of Yesterday Stefan Zweig 1942 Austrian German
1583 The Civilization Of The Renaissance In Italy Jacob Burckhardt 1860 Swiss German
1763 Small Is Beautiful E. F. Schumacher 1973 British English
2509 The Abyss Marguerite Yourcenar 1968 French French
2700 Existentialism And Humanism Jean Paul Sartre 1946 French French
3211 Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari 2015 Israeli Hebrew
4105 Renaissance And Renascences In Western Art Erwin Panofsky 1960 Unknown English
4419 The Swerve Stephen Greenblatt 2011 American English
4612 Civilisation Kenneth Clark 1969 British English
5643 Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker 2018 American English
6005 Note Conjointe Charles Péguy 1914 French French
6335 A Preface to Morals Walter Lippmann 1929 American English
6379 Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson 2017 American English
6704 Collected essays Aldous Huxley 1958 British English
7612 Poems Of Léopold S. Senghor Léopold S. Senghor 1945 Senegalese French
8190 Experience And Nature John Dewey 1925 American English
8363 Integral Humanism Jacques Maritain 1936 French French
8607 Lyrical And Critical Essays Albert Camus 1968 French French
8756 The Foundations Of Modern Political Thought Quentin Skinner 1978 British English
9926 The Problem Of Atheism Augusto Del Noce 1964 Italian Italian
10244 A History of Philosophy Frederick Charles Copleston 1946 British English
11167 A World Lit Only By Fire William Manchester 1992 American English
11365 Tout Péguy Charles Péguy French French
11533 Modernity On Endless Trial Leszek Kolakowski 1990 Polish English
11662 Walt Whitman Justin Kaplan 1980 American English
11662 Walt Whitman Paul Zweig 1984 American English
11662 Fatal Discord Michael Massing 2018 Unknown English
11839 In Bluebeard's Castle George Steiner 1971 British English
13505 Humanist Manifesto 2000 Paul Kurtz 1999 American English
13600 Civilization Georges Duhamel 1918 French French
13712 The Greek Way Edith Hamilton 1930 American English
14377 Gaston De Latour Walter Pater 1896 British English
14985 Cultural Amnesia Clive James 2007 Australian English
15686 Places Where I’ve Done Time William Saroyan American English
15914 Technics And Civilization Lewis Mumford 1934 American English
16704 The Ethics Of Ambiguity Simone de Beauvoir 1947 French French
17158 Freethinkers Susan Jacoby 2004 American English
17158 Sources Of The Self Charles Taylor 1989 Canadian English
17158 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
16974 Paideia Werner Wilhelm Jaeger 1934 German German
17158 Michelangelo The Florentine Sidney Alexander 1957 Unknown English
17158 Flesh In The Age Of Reason Roy Porter 2003 British English