The Greatest Philosophical Books of All Time

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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
10399 The Triumph of the Therapeutic Philip Rieff 1966 American English
10406 The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt 2024 American English
10420 Internal Ecology Morals For Xxi Century Dario Salas Sommer 2007 Chilean Spanish
10448 The Testament Of Mary Colm Toibin 2012 Irish English
10450 Nothing to be Frightened Of Julian Barnes 2008 British English
10450 Why Does The World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt 2012 American English
10450 Mr. Palomar Italo Calvino 1983 Italian Italian
10450 The Tangled Tree David Quammen 2018 American English
10499 The Fragility Of Goodness Martha C. Nussbaum 1986 American English
10505 A Voyage To India Gonçalo M. Tavares 2010 Portuguese Portuguese
10523 Splinters Leslie Jamison 2024 Unknown English
10528 Of Grammatology Jacques Derrida 1967 French French
10540 My Struggle: Book 6 Karl Ove Knausgård 2011 Norwegian Norwegian
10545 The Character Of Physical Law Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
10643 The Abstract Wild Jack Turner 1996 Unknown English
10658 An Accidental Man Iris Murdoch 1971 British English
10737 Truth And Truthfulness Bernard Williams 2002 British English
10748 Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner 1968 British English
10749 The Collected Poems 1931 1987 Czesław Miłosz 1988 Polish Polish
10825 Touching Feeling Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 2003 American English
10826 This Bridge We Call Home Gloria Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating 2002 Multiple English
10847 Homo Necans Walter Burkert 1972 German German
10847 Gardens Of Adonis Marcel Detienne 1972 Greek French
10874 Women, Culture & Politics Angela Davis 1989 American English
10887 Sabbatai Sevi Gershom Scholem 1973 German German
10897 After Many A Summer Dies The Swan Aldous Huxley 1939 British English
10915 Common As Air Lewis Hyde 2010 American English
10955 Surprised By Hope N.T. Wright 2008 British English
10964 The Roman Empire Paul Veyne 1975 French French
10971 Pornography Andrea Dworkin 1981 American English
10974 World Of Sex Henry Miller 1941 American English
10979 Man Made Language Dale Spender 1980 Australian English
10985 The Proper Study of Mankind Isaiah Berlin 1997 British English
10988 A Brief History Of Neoliberalism David Harvey 2005 British English
10992 Love And Will Rollo May 1969 American English
10997 The History Of Sexuality Michel Foucault 1976 French French
11001 The Ghost Writer Philip Roth 1979 American English
11002 Shifting The Silence Etel Adnan 2020 Unknown English
11003 Young Men and Fire Norman Maclean 1992 American English
11003 The Moral Animal Robert Wright 1994 American English
11003 The Island Of The Day Before Umberto Eco 1994 Italian Italian
11025 Ways Of Being Alive Baptiste Morizot 2020 French French
11033 Cinema And History Marc Ferro 1977 French French
11033 This Sex Which Is Not One Luce Irigary 1977 French French
11049 The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot 1969 British English
11056 Two Years Eight Months And Twenty Eight Nights Salman Rushdie 2015 British English
11063 Midnight Mao Dun 1933 Chinese Chinese
11110 The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton John Milton 2007 British English
11090 Berlin Childhood Around 1900 Walter Benjamin 1950 German German
11090 The Eyewitness Ernst Weiß 1930 German German
11090 Der Weg Nach Oobliadooh Fritz Rudolf Fries 1966 German German
11090 Disciplina Clericalis Petrus Alphonsi 1919 Multiple Latin
11137 Ravage René Barjavel 1943 French French
11174 Philosophy In The Boudoir Marquis de Sade 1795 French French
11196 Stranglehold On Africa René Dumont 1980 French French
11240 Nuptials Albert Camus 1938 Algerian French
11236 Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water António Lobo Antunes 2017 Portuguese Portuguese
11252 Éthiopiques Léopold Sédar Senghor 1956 Senegalese French
11275 Gospel Wilton Barnhardt 1993 American English
11304 My Last Sigh Luis Buñuel 1982 Spanish Spanish
11312 No Place On Earth Christa Wolf 1979 German German
11336 The Notes: Or On Non Premature Reconciliation Ludwig Hohl 1980 Swiss German
11336 The Father Of A Murderer Alfred Andersch 1980 German German
11352 The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green 2021 American English
11364 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11364 Against Poets Witold Gombrowicz Polish Polish
11364 The Inherent Perfection Of Life Agnès Martin Unknown Unknown
11364 Tout Péguy Charles Péguy French French
11364 Évangile Des égarés Georgina Tacou Unknown French
11391 Always Astonished Fernando Pessoa 1988 Portuguese Portuguese
11432 Vor Feuerschlünden. Erfahrung Mit Georg Trakls Gedicht Franz Fühmann 1982 German German
11437 A History Of Bombing Sven Lindqvist 1999 Swedish Swedish
11504 The Nature Of Nature Enric Sala 2020 Spanish English
11517 The Intellectuals And The Masses John Carey 1992 British English
11519 Enchiridion Of Epictetus Epictetus 135 Greek Greek
11537 Timaeus Plato -360 Greek Ancient greek
11541 The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes 1919 British English
11546 Beautiful Losers Leonard Cohen 1966 Canadian English
11546 A Madman's Diary 狂人日記 Lu Xun 1918 Chinese Chinese
11567 The Sickness Unto Death Soren Kierkegaard 1849 Danish Danish
11565 Trick Mirror Jia Tolentino 2019 American English
11575 Inside The Whale And Other Essays George Orwell 1940 British English
11580 Plaintext Nancy Mairs 1986 American English
11580 Women's Ways Of Knowing Mary Field Belenky 1986 American English
11599 World of Wonders Robertson Davies 1975 Canadian English
11603 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
11605 The Wisdom Of Crowds James Surowiecki 2004 American English
11616 On Lies, Secrets And Silence Adrienne Rich 1979 American English
11629 Political And Social Writings Cornelius Castoriadis 1988 French French
11647 A Secular Age Charles Taylor 2007 Canadian English
11661 The Club Leo Damrosch 2019 American English
11661 The Evolution Of Beauty Richard O. Prum 2017 American English
11661 Christianity, Social Tolerance, And Homosexuality John Boswell 1980 American English
11661 Philosophical Explanations Robert Nozick 1981 American English
11661 The Fate Of The Earth Jonathan Schell 1982 American English
11661 The Bourgeois Experience Peter Gay 1984 American English
11661 Roger's Version John Updike 1986 American English
11661 Staring At The Sun Julian Barnes 1986 British English
11661 Winners Take All Anand Giridharadas 2018 American English
11661 Fatal Discord Michael Massing 2018 Unknown English
11661 She Has Her Mother's Laugh Carl Zimmer 2018 American English
11808 The Reason For God Timothy J. Keller 2008 American English
11805 The Meursault Investigation Kamel Daoud 2013 Algerian French
11811 Ecology, Community And Lifestyle Arne Naess 1989 Norwegian Norwegian
11838 In Bluebeard's Castle George Steiner 1971 British English
11856 Dominion Tom Holland 2019 British English
11873 London Orbital Iain Sinclair 2002 British English
11899 Writing A Woman's Life Carolyn G. Heilbrun 1988 American English
11898 The Drama Of Doctrine Kevin Vanhoozer 2004 American English
11923 Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology Andre Gorz 1991 French French
11939 Machiavelli in Hell Sebastian de Grazia 1989 American English
12026 Gog Giovanni Papini 1931 Italian Italian
12040 Charles Bovary, Country Doctor Jean Améry 1992 Unknown German
12040 Krieg Ohne Schlacht Heiner Müller 1992 German German
12047 Landing Light Don Paterson 2003 British English
12048 Omega Minor Paul Verhaeghen 2004 Belgian Dutch
12067 How We Think John Dewey 1910 American English
12081 Shop Class As Soulcraft Matthew B. Crawford 2009 American English
12083 Aids And Its Metaphors Susan Sontag 1989 American English
12083 Dancing At The Edge Of The World Ursula K. Le Guin 1989 American English