The Greatest Books of All Time on Mind

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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
374 Ethics Baruch de Spinoza 1677 Dutch Latin
438 Philosophical Investigations Ludwig Wittgenstein 1953 Austrian German
465 Collected Poems Wallace Stevens 1954 American English
1030 Meditations on First Philosophy Rene Descartes 1641 French Latin
1327 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke 1689 British English
1342 The Principles of Psychology William James 1890 American English
2641 The Palm At The End Of The Mind Wallace Stevens 1971 American English
2995 The Doors Of Perception Aldous Huxley 1954 British English
4252 Dianetics L. Ron Hubbard 1950 American English
5502 Steps To An Ecology Of Mind Gregory Bateson 1972 American English
5718 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
6375 The Feeling Of What Happens Antonio Damasio 1999 Portuguese English
6678 The Concept Of Mind Gilbert Ryle 1949 British English
6715 The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind Julian Jaynes 1976 American English
7216 The Art Of Poetry Paul Valéry 1939 French French
7900 The Gentrification of the Mind Sarah Schulman 2012 American English
8261 The Poetry Of Thought George Steiner 2011 British English
8852 The Emperor's New Mind Roger Penrose 1989 British English
8880 Philosophy And The Mirror Of Nature Richard Rorty 1979 American English
9148 Language And Mind Noam Chomsky 1968 American English
9635 The Collected Works of Paul Valéry Paul Valéry 1957 French French
9859 Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1817 British English
10633 A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge George Berkeley 1710 Irish English
12496 The Mind's I Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett 1981 American English
14138 They'd Rather Be Right Mark Clifton 1954 American English
14726 De Anima Aristotle -350 Greek Ancient greek
14985 The Body Yasuo Yuasa 1987 Japanese Japanese
15565 The Mind In The Making James Harvey Robinson 1921 American English
15914 The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis Sigmund Freud 1910 Austrian German
15914 The Hasheesh Eater Fitz Hugh Ludlow 1857 American English
15914 Science And Health Mary Baker Eddy 1875 American English
15914 Gadādhara's Śaktivāda Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya 1650 Unknown Sanskrit
17159 The Ticket That Exploded William S. Burroughs 1962 American English
17159 The Embedding Ian Watson 1973 British English
17159 Universal Consciousness alexis karpouzos 2016 Greek Unknown
17159 The Science Of The Mind Owen J. Flanagan 1984 American English
17159 Fire In The Mind George Johnson 1995 American English
17159 What Does It All Mean? Thomas Nagel 1987 American English
17159 Dignaga's Investigation Of The Percept Douglas Duckworth 2016 Unknown English
17159 The Routledge Handbook Of Panpsychism William Seager 2020 Canadian English
17159 Individuals P. F. Strawson 1959 British English
17159 Bright Air, Brilliant Fire Gerald M. Edelman 1992 American English
17159 The View From Nowhere Thomas Nagel 1986 American English
17159 Real Materialism And Other Essays Galen Strawson 2008 British English
17159 The Problem Of The Soul Owen J. Flanagan 2002 American English
17159 The Courtier And The Heretic Matthew Stewart 2006 American English
17159 Unlimited Memory Kevin Horsley 2014 Unknown English
17159 Endure Alex Hutchinson 2018 Canadian English
17159 Intelligence And Spirit Reza Negarestani 2018 Unknown English
17159 Psychonauts Mike Jay 2023 Unknown English
17159 Flesh In The Age Of Reason Roy Porter 2003 British English
17159 It's All In Your Head Russ Rymer 1992 Unknown English
17159 Mind And Cosmos Thomas Nagel 2012 American English
17159 You Are Not A Brain Markus Gabriel 2015 German German
17159 Clarifying The Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual For Mahamudra Dakpo Tashi Namgyal 2004 Tibetan English