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
924 The World Of Yesterday Stefan Zweig 1942 Austrian German
1584 The Civilization Of The Renaissance In Italy Jacob Burckhardt 1860 Swiss German
1762 Small Is Beautiful E. F. Schumacher 1973 British English
2508 The Abyss Marguerite Yourcenar 1968 French French
2701 Existentialism And Humanism Jean Paul Sartre 1946 French French
3209 Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari 2015 Israeli Hebrew
4107 Renaissance And Renascences In Western Art Erwin Panofsky 1960 Unknown English
4420 The Swerve Stephen Greenblatt 2011 American English
4611 Civilisation Kenneth Clark 1969 British English
5642 Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker 2018 American English
6004 Note Conjointe Charles Péguy 1914 French French
6334 A Preface to Morals Walter Lippmann 1929 American English
6377 Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson 2017 American English
6703 Collected essays Aldous Huxley 1958 British English
7612 Poems Of Léopold S. Senghor Léopold S. Senghor 1945 Senegalese French
8191 Experience And Nature John Dewey 1925 American English
8363 Integral Humanism Jacques Maritain 1936 French French
8605 Lyrical And Critical Essays Albert Camus 1968 French French
8754 The Foundations Of Modern Political Thought Quentin Skinner 1978 British English
9930 The Problem Of Atheism Augusto Del Noce 1964 Italian Italian
10248 A History of Philosophy Frederick Charles Copleston 1946 British English
11173 A World Lit Only By Fire William Manchester 1992 American English
11373 Tout Péguy Charles Péguy French French
11547 Modernity On Endless Trial Leszek Kolakowski 1990 Polish English
11676 Walt Whitman Justin Kaplan 1980 American English
11676 Walt Whitman Paul Zweig 1984 American English
11676 Fatal Discord Michael Massing 2018 Unknown English
11855 In Bluebeard's Castle George Steiner 1971 British English
13522 Humanist Manifesto 2000 Paul Kurtz 1999 American English
13619 Civilization Georges Duhamel 1918 French French
10225 The Greek Way Edith Hamilton 1930 American English
14419 Gaston De Latour Walter Pater 1896 British English
15010 Cultural Amnesia Clive James 2007 Australian English
14160 Places Where I’ve Done Time William Saroyan American English
15897 Technics And Civilization Lewis Mumford 1934 American English
16663 The Ethics Of Ambiguity Simone de Beauvoir 1947 French French
17113 Freethinkers Susan Jacoby 2004 American English
17113 Sources Of The Self Charles Taylor 1989 Canadian English
17113 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
16935 Paideia Werner Wilhelm Jaeger 1934 German German
17113 Michelangelo The Florentine Sidney Alexander 1957 Unknown English
17113 Flesh In The Age Of Reason Roy Porter 2003 British English