The Greatest Books of All Time on Logic

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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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35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
205 The Complete Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1927 British English
369 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein 1921 Austrian German
438 Philosophical Investigations Ludwig Wittgenstein 1953 Austrian German
547 Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll 1871 British English
1387 Gödel, Escher, Bach Douglas Hofstadter 1979 American English
1449 Corpus Aristotelicum Aristotle -322 Greek Greek
1526 A History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell 1945 British English
1706 The Principia Mathematica Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell 1910 British English
1785 The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe 1841 American English
2031 Introduction To Mathematical Philosophy Bertrand Russell 1919 British English
2634 Logical Investigations Edmund Husserl 1900 German German
4863 The Foundations Of Arithmetic Gottlob Frege 1884 German German
5526 Tales Of The Black Widowers Isaac Asimov 1974 American English
7215 Complete Works Lewis Carroll 1939 British English
7869 The Life Changing Magic Of Numbers Bobby Seagull 2019 British English
8508 From A Logical Point Of View Willard Van Orman Quine 1953 American English
9562 Mathematics, Form And Function Saunders Mac Lane 1986 American English
10239 A History of Philosophy Frederick Charles Copleston 1946 British English
12067 How We Think John Dewey 1910 American English
13359 A System Of Logic John Stuart Mill 1843 American English
14173 Autobiography Bertrand Russell 1967 British English
14519 Xkcd Randall Munroe 2010 American English
14649 How Not To Be Wrong Jordan Ellenberg 2014 American English
14766 The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1893 British English
14820 Summulae De Dialectica John Buridan, Gyula Klima 1350 French Latin
14818 Logic And Knowledge Bertrand Russell 1956 British English
14888 What Is Metaphysics? Martin Heidegger 1929 German German
15897 An Introduction to Mathematics Alfred North Whitehead 1911 British English
15897 Science and Hypothesis Henri Poincaré 1902 French French
15897 Works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1700 German Latin
15897 The Fundamental Wisdom Of The Middle Way Nagarjuna, Jay L. Garfield -150 Unknown Sanskrit
15897 Tattvachintamani Gaṅgeśa 1321 Indian Sanskrit
15897 The Padārthatattvanirūpaṇam Of Raghunātha śiromaṇi Karl H. Potter 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
15897 Gadādhara's Śaktivāda Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya 1650 Unknown Sanskrit
15897 The Computer And The Brain John Von Neumann 1958 American English
16503 Science Of Logic G. W. F. Hegel 1812 German German
17114 Theophrastus William Wall Fortenbaugh, Dimitri Gutas 1992 Greek English
17114 Dignaga's Investigation Of The Percept Douglas Duckworth 2016 Unknown English
17114 The Philosophical Works Of Al Kindi Peter Adamson, Peter E. Pormann 2012 Unknown English
17114 Being Logical D. Q. McInerny 2004 American English
17114 Just The Arguments Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone 2011 American English
17114 Labyrinths Of Reason William Poundstone 1988 American English
17114 The Art Of Thinking Clearly Rolf Dobelli 2011 Swiss German
16928 An Autobiography RG Collingwood 1939 British English
16945 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Other Stories Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
17114 Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism And Human Cognition Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans, Arindam Chakrabarti American English
17114 Jabberwocky And Other Nonsense Lewis Carroll British English