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
17173 The Garden Against Time Olivia Laing 2024 Unknown English
17148 Initiation Into Hermetics Franz Bardon 1962 Czech German
17173 Tactics Edward de Bono 1985 British English
17173 The Problem With Solutions Julie Guthman 2024 Unknown English
17173 Living On Earth Peter Godfrey-Smith 2024 Unknown English
17173 Why We Die Venki Ramakrishnan 2024 Unknown English
17173 Quantum Drama Jim Baggott, John L. Heilbron 2024 Unknown English
17173 Limitarianism Ingrid Robeyns 2023 Unknown English
17173 Revolutionary Becomings Ying Qian 2024 Unknown English
17173 Coming Of Age Lucy Foulkes 2024 Unknown English
17173 Selfish Genes To Social Beings Jonathan Silvertown 2024 Unknown English
17173 The Joy Of Sports Michael Novak 1976 American English
17173 Golf In The Kingdom Michael Murphy 1976 American English
17173 A Breath Of Life Clarice Lispector 1978 Brazilian Portuguese
17173 My Bright Abyss Christian Wiman 2013 American English
17173 The Power Of Myth Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers 1988 American English
17173 Anam Cara John O'Donohue 1997 Irish English
17173 The Sovereign Individual James West Davidson 1997 Unknown English
17173 Why Liberalism Failed Patrick J. Deneen 2018 American English
17173 Status And Culture Karl Marx Unknown Unknown
17173 Bronze Age Mindset Bronze Age Pervert 2018 Unknown English
17173 The Power Of Meaning Emily Esfahani Smith 2017 American English
17173 The Basic Political Writings Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1987 French French
16944 The Collected Songs Of Cold Mountain Hanshan -800 Chinese Classical chinese
17173 Psychopolitics Byung-Chul Han 2017 German German
17173 The Thirst For Annihilation Nick Land 1992 British English
17173 Yoga Emmanuel Carrère 2020 French French
16911 I Am That Nisargadatta Maharaj 1973 Indian Marathi
17173 The Closing Of The Western Mind Charles Freeman 2002 British English
17128 Dialectical And Historical Materialism Joseph Stalin 1938 Russian Russian
17173 The Machinic Unconscious Félix Guattari 1979 French French
17027 The Visible And The Invisible Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1964 French French
17040 Journeys Out Of The Body Robert A. Monroe 1971 American English
16975 The World As Will And Representation, Volume I Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 German German
17173 The Red Book C.G. Jung 2009 Swiss German
17173 The Molecule Of More Daniel E. Lieberman 2018 American English
17070 Inquisiciones Jorge Luis Borges 1925 Argentinian Spanish
17032 Discourses And Selected Writings Epictetus 108 Greek Greek
17173 The Right To Oblivion Lowry Pressly 2024 Unknown English
17173 Life As No One Knows It Sara Imari Walker 2024 Unknown English
17173 Cosmic Connections Charles Taylor 2024 Unknown English
17173 Stranger Than We Can Imagine John Higgs 2015 British English
17173 Plato At The Googleplex Rebecca Goldstein 2014 American English
17173 Leviathan And The Air Pump Steven Shapin 1985 Unknown English
17173 Fanged Noumena Nick Land 2011 British English
17173 State Of Exception Giorgio Agamben 2003 Italian Italian
17173 Better Never To Have Been David Benatar 2006 South African English
17173 Aliens & Anorexia Chris Kraus 2000 American English
17008 Twilight Of The Idols/The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche 1888 German German
17173 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17055 The World As Will And Representation, Volume Ii Arthur Schopenhauer 1844 German German
17173 The Marriage Of Sense And Soul Ken Wilber 1998 American English
17173 The Bright Book Of Life Harold Bloom 2020 American English
17173 Caminhar Frédéric Gros 2009 French French
17173 Magisteria Nicholas Spencer Unknown Unknown
17173 Surfaces And Essences Douglas Hofstadter 2013 American English
17173 Scale Geoffrey B. West 2017 American English
17058 Dostoevsky Joseph Frank 1864 American English
17173 Silêncio Na Era Do Ruído Erling Kagge 2016 Norwegian Norwegian
17173 Heavenly Participation Boersma, Hans 2011 Canadian English
17173 What Tech Calls Thinking Daub, Adrian 2020 Unknown English
17090 Candide And Other Stories Voltaire 1759 French French
17173 A Little Larger Than The Entire Universe Fernando Pessoa 1998 Portuguese Portuguese
17173 Reality Transurfing Steps I V Vadim Zeland 2004 Russian Russian
17173 If Cats Disappeared From The World Genki Kawamura 2012 Japanese Japanese
17173 Tutti I Nomi José Saramago 1997 Portuguese Italian
17173 Karl Marx Francis Wheen 1999 British English
16948 The Elementary Forms Of Religious Life Emile Durkheim 1912 French French
17173 Thought To Exist In The Wild Derrick Jensen 2007 American English
17173 Night Etel Adnan 2016 Unknown English
16889 Tears And Saints Emil Cioran 1937 Romanian French
16929 Notes From Underground & The Double Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 Russian Russian
17173 The Ecological Thought Timothy Morton 2010 British English
17173 The Humans Matt Haig 2013 British English
17173 Man Of My Time Dalia Sofer 2020 Unknown English
17173 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
17173 Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben 1995 Italian Italian
17173 Kafka Gilles Deleuze 1975 French French
17173 Intelligence And Spirit Reza Negarestani 2018 Unknown English
16793 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
17173 Essays Critical And Clinical Gilles Deleuze 1993 French French
16984 Paideia Werner Wilhelm Jaeger 1934 German German
17173 I, The Supreme Augusto Roa Bastos 1974 Paraguayan Spanish
17173 Insignificance Terry Johnson 1982 British English
17173 Rasero Francisco Rebolledo 1995 Mexican Spanish
17173 The Dream Of Confucius Jean Levi 1989 French French
17173 The Signore Kunio Tsuji 1990 Japanese Japanese
17173 Requiem For The Living Alan Cherchesov 2005 Unknown Russian
17173 A Man Was Going Down The Road Otar Chiladze 1973 Georgian Georgian
17173 Dagny, Or A Love Feast Zurab Karumidze 2014 Georgian English
17173 Solar Plexus Rustam Ibragimbekov 1996 Azerbaijani English
17014 What's Wrong With The World G. K. Chesterton 1910 British English
17173 The Last Language Jennifer duBois 2023 Unknown English
17173 Orthodoxy And The Kingdom Of Satan Spyridon Bailey Unknown English
17173 Astrotopia Mary-Jane Rubenstein 2023 Unknown English
17173 Obra Maestra Juan Tallón 2022 Spanish Spanish
17173 The Dimensions Of A Cave Greg Jackson 2023 Unknown English
17173 How To Be Multiple Helena de Bres 2023 Unknown Unknown
17173 On Marriage Devorah Baum 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Pensive Citadel Victor Brombert 2023 Unknown Unknown
17173 The Body Of The Soul Lyudmila Ulitskaya 2023 Russian Russian
17173 How To Be Adam Nicolson 2023 British English
17173 The Pole J. M. Coetzee 2023 South African English
17173 The Rigor Of Angels William Egginton 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Suicide Museum Ariel Dorfman 2023 Chilean English
17173 The Marriage Question Clare Carlisle 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Philosopher Of Palo Alto John Tinnell 2023 Unknown English
17173 My Stupid Intentions Bernardo Zannoni 2023 Italian Italian
17173 Lament For Julia Susan Taubes 2023 Unknown English
17173 Parfit David Edmonds 2023 Unknown English
17173 Greek Lessons Han Kang 2023 Korean Korean
17173 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
17173 Three Roads Back Robert D. Richardson 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Guest Lecture Martin Riker 2023 Unknown English
17173 J.L. Austin M.W. Rowe 2004 Unknown English
17031 An Unpleasant Predicament Fyodor Dostoevsky 1862 Russian Russian
17173 The 48 Laws Of Power robert green 1998 Unknown English
17173 Judas Jeff Loveness 2018 Unknown English
17173 Το εγχειρίδιο του πολεμιστή του φωτός Paulo Coelho 1997 Brazilian Portuguese
17173 The Trial Of Socrates I.F. Stone 1988 American English