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 The Agony Of Christianity And Essays On Faith Miguel de Unamuno 1925 Spanish Spanish
17125 Complete Critical Prose And Letters Osip Mandelstam 1997 Russian Russian
17125 Migratory Birds Mariana Oliver 2014 Mexican Spanish
17125 Selected Writings Gerard de Nerval 1853 French French
17125 Six Early Stories Thomas Mann 1997 German German
17125 Selected Poems Su Tung–p’o Chinese Chinese
17125 Letters Of Thomas Mann Thomas Mann 1975 German German
16937 Ride The Tiger Julius Evola 1961 Italian Italian
16897 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Iii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
17125 The Tao Of Cricket Ashis Nandy 1989 Indian English
17125 In Light Of India Octavio Paz 1995 Mexican Spanish
17125 A Fórmula De Deus José M. Sánchez Santos Unknown Unknown
17125 The Tragic Mind Robert D. Kaplan 2023 American English
17125 Revelation Freshly Erupting Nelly Sachs German German
16905 The King And The Corpse Heinrich Zimmer 1948 German English
17125 O Dia Do Curinga Jostein Gaarder 1990 Norwegian Norwegian
16954 Von Der Kürze Des Lebens · Vom Glücklichen Leben Seneca -49 Roman Latin
17125 Worldviews Richard DeWitt 2004 Unknown English
17125 A New Earth Eckhart Tolle 2005 Canadian English
17125 Love’s Knowledge Martha Nussbaum 1990 American English
17125 Time And Narrative, Volume 3 Paul Ricoeur 1985 French French
17125 Fields Of Sense: A New Realist Ontology Markus Gabriel 2013 German English
17125 You Are Not A Brain Markus Gabriel 2015 German German
17125 The Primordial Mind In Health And Illness Michael Robbins 2011 American Unknown
17125 Ritual And Its Consequences: An Essay On The Limits Of Sincerity Adam B. Seligman 2008 American English
16923 Between Man And Man Martin Buber 1944 Austrian English
17125 What Is Existential Anthropology? Michael D. Jackson New Zealand English
17125 Lectures On Imagination Paul Ricoeur Unknown French
17125 Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation To Imagination Donnel B. Stern 1997 American English
17125 Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction Jan Westerhoff 2009 British English
17125 Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism And Human Cognition Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans, Arindam Chakrabarti American English
17125 Soul Boom Rainn Wilson 2023 American English
16984 What The Buddha Taught Walpola Rahula 1959 British English
17125 Sur Le Bord De La Rivière Piedra, Je Me Suis Assise Et J'ai Pleuré Paulo Coelho 1994 Brazilian Portuguese
17030 Manhã Submersa Vergílio Ferreira 1953 Portuguese Portuguese
17125 A Prayer For The Crown Shy Becky Chambers 2022 American English
17125 The Dark Enlightenment Nick Land 2012 British English
17125 Dying Cory Taylor 2016 Australian English
17102 Aphorismen Zur Lebensweisheit Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 German German
17125 Wilderness Essays John Muir American English
16832 Ensayos I Michel de Montaigne 1580 French French
16864 Cape Cod Henry David Thoreau 1865 American English
17125 Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Philip K. Dick American English
17125 Thou Art That Joseph Campbell American English
17125 The Inner Reaches Of Outer Space Joseph Campbell 1986 American English
17125 Pathways To Bliss Joseph Campbell American English
17125 Always Remember Charlie Mackesy British English
17125 Is Science Western In Origin? C.K. Raju Indian English
17125 Of Consolation To Helvia Seneca 2042 Roman English
16983 Johnathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach 1970 American English
17118 Fantastic Planet Stefan Wul 1957 French French
17125 Against The Machine Paul Kingsnorth British English
17125 Anleitung Zum Unglücklichsein Paul Watzlawick 1983 Austrian German
17125 Focault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian
17125 A Book Of Silence Maitland, Sara 2008 British English
17108 The Death Ivan Ilych And Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russian Russian
17125 Stand Firm Svend Brinkmann Danish Danish
17125 Perlmann's Silence Pascal Mercier Swiss German
17125 Psychology Of Money Morgan Housel 2020 American English
17125 Saint Thomas Aquinas And Saint Francis Of Assisi G.K. Chesterton English English
16861 The Brothers Karmazov Dostoevsky, Fyodor 1880 Russian Russian
17125 Story Of Your Life Ted Chiang 1998 American English
17125 Three Body Problem Boxed Set Liu Cixin 2006 Chinese Chinese
16907 Frank Herbert's Dune Saga 6 Book Boxed Set Frank Herbert 1965 American English
17008 The Twilight Of The Idols Nietzsche 1889 German German
17065 Antichrist Nietzsche 1895 German German
17125 Watermark Joseph Brodsky 1989 Unknown English
17125 God And The Chip Stahl, William A. 1999 American English
17049 Mémoires D'hadrien, Carnets De Notes De Mémoires D'hadrien Marguerite Yourcenar 1951 French French
17125 Who Paid The Pipers Of Western Marxism? Gabriel Rockhill American English
17125 Christ Is Recrucified Kazantzakis Greek Greek
17125 Al Qaeda And What It Means To Be Modern John Gray 2003 British English
17125 Omnisophie Gunter Dueck German German
17125 Als Zeuge Der Zeit Arthur Koestler 1983 German Unknown
17125 Also Sprach Bellavista. Neapel, Liebe Und Freiheit. Luciano De Crescenzo 1977 Italian Italian
17125 Der Unbewußte Gott. Psychotherapie Und Religion Frankl, Viktor E. 2005 Austrian German
17125 Lettere A Lucilio Seneca 2064 Roman Italian
17125 Schizoanalytic Cartographies Félix Guattari 1989 French French
17125 Psychotherapy And Materialism Unknown Unknown Unknown