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
17125 Revolutionary Becomings Ying Qian 2024 Unknown English
17125 Coming Of Age Lucy Foulkes 2024 Unknown English
17125 Selfish Genes To Social Beings Jonathan Silvertown 2024 Unknown English
17125 The Joy Of Sports Michael Novak 1976 American English
17125 Golf In The Kingdom Michael Murphy 1976 American English
17125 A Breath Of Life Clarice Lispector 1978 Brazilian Portuguese
17125 My Bright Abyss Christian Wiman 2013 American English
17125 The Power Of Myth Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers 1988 American English
17125 Anam Cara John O'Donohue 1997 Irish English
17125 The Sovereign Individual James West Davidson 1997 Unknown English
17125 Why Liberalism Failed Patrick J. Deneen 2018 American English
17125 Status And Culture Karl Marx Unknown Unknown
17125 Bronze Age Mindset Bronze Age Pervert 2018 Unknown English
17125 The Power Of Meaning Emily Esfahani Smith 2017 American English
17125 The Basic Political Writings Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1987 French French
17125 Psychopolitics Byung-Chul Han 2017 German German
17125 The Thirst For Annihilation Nick Land 1992 British English
17125 Yoga Emmanuel Carrère 2020 French French
16875 I Am That Nisargadatta Maharaj 1973 Indian Marathi
17125 The Closing Of The Western Mind Charles Freeman 2002 British English
17086 Dialectical And Historical Materialism Joseph Stalin 1938 Russian Russian
17125 The Machinic Unconscious Félix Guattari 1979 French French
16977 The Visible And The Invisible Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1964 French French
16946 The World As Will And Representation, Volume I Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 German German
17125 The Molecule Of More Daniel E. Lieberman 2018 American English
17047 Inquisiciones Jorge Luis Borges 1925 Argentinian Spanish
16992 Discourses And Selected Writings Epictetus 108 Greek Greek
17125 The Right To Oblivion Lowry Pressly 2024 Unknown English
17125 Life As No One Knows It Sara Imari Walker 2024 Unknown English
17125 Cosmic Connections Charles Taylor 2024 Unknown English
17125 Stranger Than We Can Imagine John Higgs 2015 British English
17125 Plato At The Googleplex Rebecca Goldstein 2014 American English
17125 Leviathan And The Air Pump Steven Shapin 1985 Unknown English
17125 Fanged Noumena Nick Land 2011 British English
17125 State Of Exception Giorgio Agamben 2003 Italian Italian
17125 Better Never To Have Been David Benatar 2006 South African English
17125 Aliens & Anorexia Chris Kraus 2000 American English
16935 Twilight Of The Idols/The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche 1888 German German
17125 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17003 The World As Will And Representation, Volume Ii Arthur Schopenhauer 1844 German German
17125 The Marriage Of Sense And Soul Ken Wilber 1998 American English
17125 The Bright Book Of Life Harold Bloom 2020 American English
17125 Caminhar Frédéric Gros 2009 French French
17125 Magisteria Nicholas Spencer Unknown Unknown
17125 Surfaces And Essences Douglas Hofstadter 2013 American English
17125 Scale Geoffrey B. West 2017 American English
17034 Dostoevsky Joseph Frank 1864 American English
17125 Silêncio Na Era Do Ruído Erling Kagge 2016 Norwegian Norwegian
17125 Heavenly Participation Boersma, Hans 2011 Canadian English
17125 What Tech Calls Thinking Daub, Adrian 2020 Unknown English
17064 Candide And Other Stories Voltaire 1759 French French
17125 Reality Transurfing Steps I V Vadim Zeland 2004 Russian Russian
17125 If Cats Disappeared From The World Genki Kawamura 2012 Japanese Japanese
17125 Tutti I Nomi José Saramago 1997 Portuguese Italian
17125 Karl Marx Francis Wheen 1999 British English
16902 The Elementary Forms Of Religious Life Emile Durkheim 1912 French French
17125 Thought To Exist In The Wild Derrick Jensen 2007 American English
17125 Night Etel Adnan 2016 Unknown English
16838 Tears And Saints Emil Cioran 1937 Romanian French
16912 Notes From Underground & The Double Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 Russian Russian
17125 The Ecological Thought Timothy Morton 2010 British English
17125 The Humans Matt Haig 2013 British English
17125 Man Of My Time Dalia Sofer 2020 Unknown English
17125 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
17125 Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben 1995 Italian Italian
17125 Kafka Gilles Deleuze 1975 French French
17125 Intelligence And Spirit Reza Negarestani 2018 Unknown English
16760 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
17125 Essays Critical And Clinical Gilles Deleuze 1993 French French
16945 Paideia Werner Wilhelm Jaeger 1934 German German
17125 I, The Supreme Augusto Roa Bastos 1974 Paraguayan Spanish
17125 Insignificance Terry Johnson 1982 British English
17125 Rasero Francisco Rebolledo 1995 Mexican Spanish
17125 The Dream Of Confucius Jean Levi 1989 French French
17125 The Signore Kunio Tsuji 1990 Japanese Japanese
17125 Requiem For The Living Alan Cherchesov 2005 Unknown Russian
17125 A Man Was Going Down The Road Otar Chiladze 1973 Georgian Georgian
17125 Dagny, Or A Love Feast Zurab Karumidze 2014 Georgian English
17125 Solar Plexus Rustam Ibragimbekov 1996 Azerbaijani English
16968 What's Wrong With The World G. K. Chesterton 1910 British English
17125 The Last Language Jennifer duBois 2023 Unknown English
17125 Orthodoxy And The Kingdom Of Satan Spyridon Bailey Unknown English
17125 Astrotopia Mary-Jane Rubenstein 2023 Unknown English
17125 Obra Maestra Juan Tallón 2022 Spanish Spanish
17125 The Dimensions Of A Cave Greg Jackson 2023 Unknown English
17125 How To Be Multiple Helena de Bres 2023 Unknown Unknown
17125 On Marriage Devorah Baum 2023 Unknown English
17125 The Pensive Citadel Victor Brombert 2023 Unknown Unknown
17125 The Body Of The Soul Lyudmila Ulitskaya 2023 Russian Russian
17125 How To Be Adam Nicolson 2023 British English
17125 The Pole J. M. Coetzee 2023 South African English
17125 The Rigor Of Angels William Egginton 2023 Unknown English
17125 The Suicide Museum Ariel Dorfman 2023 Chilean English
17125 The Marriage Question Clare Carlisle 2023 Unknown English
17125 The Philosopher Of Palo Alto John Tinnell 2023 Unknown English
17125 My Stupid Intentions Bernardo Zannoni 2023 Italian Italian
17125 Lament For Julia Susan Taubes 2023 Unknown English
17125 Parfit David Edmonds 2023 Unknown English
17125 Greek Lessons Han Kang 2023 Korean Korean
17125 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
17125 Three Roads Back Robert D. Richardson 2023 Unknown English
17125 The Guest Lecture Martin Riker 2023 Unknown English
17125 J.L. Austin M.W. Rowe 2004 Unknown English
17011 An Unpleasant Predicament Fyodor Dostoevsky 1862 Russian Russian
17125 The 48 Laws Of Power robert green 1998 Unknown English
17125 Judas Jeff Loveness 2018 Unknown English
17125 Το εγχειρίδιο του πολεμιστή του φωτός Paulo Coelho 1997 Brazilian Portuguese
17125 The Trial Of Socrates I.F. Stone 1988 American English
16877 Attack Upon Christendom Soren Kierkegaard 1944 Danish Danish
17125 Flesh In The Age Of Reason Roy Porter 2003 British English
17125 Frozen Desire James Buchan 1997 British English
17125 Roads To Santiago Cees Nooteboom 1992 Dutch Dutch
17125 O Monge Que Vendeu O Seu Ferrari Kriti Sharma 1997 Unknown English
16773 Sun And Steel Yukio Mishima 1968 Japanese Japanese
17125 The Fifth Agreement Don Miguel Ruiz 2010 Mexican English
17125 Translation As Transhumance Mireille Gansel 2017 French French
17125 Afrikalı Leo Amin Maalouf 1986 French French
17125 Lancelot Walker Percy 1977 American English
17125 Journals And Papers Soren Kierkegaard 1839 Danish Danish
17125 Alternating Current Octavio Paz 1967 Mexican Spanish