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
2032 Introduction To Mathematical Philosophy Bertrand Russell 1919 British English
2635 Logical Investigations Edmund Husserl 1900 German German
4864 The Foundations Of Arithmetic Gottlob Frege 1884 German German
5528 Tales Of The Black Widowers Isaac Asimov 1974 American English
7216 Complete Works Lewis Carroll 1939 British English
7870 The Life Changing Magic Of Numbers Bobby Seagull 2019 British English
8512 From A Logical Point Of View Willard Van Orman Quine 1953 American English
9567 Mathematics, Form And Function Saunders Mac Lane 1986 American English
10245 A History of Philosophy Frederick Charles Copleston 1946 British English
12068 How We Think John Dewey 1910 American English
13362 A System Of Logic John Stuart Mill 1843 American English
14174 Autobiography Bertrand Russell 1967 British English
14520 Xkcd Randall Munroe 2010 American English
14650 How Not To Be Wrong Jordan Ellenberg 2014 American English
14767 The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1893 British English
14821 Summulae De Dialectica John Buridan, Gyula Klima 1350 French Latin
14820 Logic And Knowledge Bertrand Russell 1956 British English
14891 What Is Metaphysics? Martin Heidegger 1929 German German
15915 An Introduction to Mathematics Alfred North Whitehead 1911 British English
15915 Science and Hypothesis Henri Poincaré 1902 French French
15915 Works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1700 German Latin
15915 The Fundamental Wisdom Of The Middle Way Nagarjuna, Jay L. Garfield -150 Unknown Sanskrit
15915 Tattvachintamani Gaṅgeśa 1321 Indian Sanskrit
15915 The Padārthatattvanirūpaṇam Of Raghunātha śiromaṇi Karl H. Potter 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
15915 Gadādhara's Śaktivāda Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya 1650 Unknown Sanskrit
15915 The Computer And The Brain John Von Neumann 1958 American English
16516 Science Of Logic G. W. F. Hegel 1812 German German
17158 Theophrastus William Wall Fortenbaugh, Dimitri Gutas 1992 Greek English
17158 Dignaga's Investigation Of The Percept Douglas Duckworth 2016 Unknown English
17158 The Philosophical Works Of Al Kindi Peter Adamson, Peter E. Pormann 2012 Unknown English
17158 Being Logical D. Q. McInerny 2004 American English
17158 Just The Arguments Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone 2011 American English
17158 Labyrinths Of Reason William Poundstone 1988 American English
17158 The Art Of Thinking Clearly Rolf Dobelli 2011 Swiss German
16974 An Autobiography RG Collingwood 1939 British English
17002 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Other Stories Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
17158 Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism And Human Cognition Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans, Arindam Chakrabarti American English
17158 Jabberwocky And Other Nonsense Lewis Carroll British English