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
16916 Attack Upon Christendom Soren Kierkegaard 1944 Danish Danish
17171 Flesh In The Age Of Reason Roy Porter 2003 British English
17171 Frozen Desire James Buchan 1997 British English
17171 Roads To Santiago Cees Nooteboom 1992 Dutch Dutch
17171 O Monge Que Vendeu O Seu Ferrari Kriti Sharma 1997 Unknown English
17171 The Fifth Agreement Don Miguel Ruiz 2010 Mexican English
17171 Translation As Transhumance Mireille Gansel 2017 French French
17171 Afrikalı Leo Amin Maalouf 1986 French French
17171 Lancelot Walker Percy 1977 American English
17171 Journals And Papers Soren Kierkegaard 1839 Danish Danish
17171 Alternating Current Octavio Paz 1967 Mexican Spanish
17171 The Agony Of Christianity And Essays On Faith Miguel de Unamuno 1925 Spanish Spanish
17171 Complete Critical Prose And Letters Osip Mandelstam 1997 Russian Russian
17171 Migratory Birds Mariana Oliver 2014 Mexican Spanish
17171 Selected Writings Gerard de Nerval 1853 French French
17171 Six Early Stories Thomas Mann 1997 German German
17171 Selected Poems Su Tung–p’o Chinese Chinese
17171 Letters Of Thomas Mann Thomas Mann 1975 German German
16974 Ride The Tiger Julius Evola 1961 Italian Italian
16949 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Iii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
17171 The Tao Of Cricket Ashis Nandy 1989 Indian English
17171 In Light Of India Octavio Paz 1995 Mexican Spanish
17171 A Fórmula De Deus José M. Sánchez Santos Unknown Unknown
17171 The Tragic Mind Robert D. Kaplan 2023 American English
17171 Revelation Freshly Erupting Nelly Sachs German German
17171 The Music Lesson Victor L. Wooten 2006 American English
16931 The King And The Corpse Heinrich Zimmer 1948 German English
17171 O Dia Do Curinga Jostein Gaarder 1990 Norwegian Norwegian
16978 Von Der Kürze Des Lebens · Vom Glücklichen Leben Seneca -49 Roman Latin
17171 Worldviews Richard DeWitt 2004 Unknown English
17171 A New Earth Eckhart Tolle 2005 Canadian English
17171 Love’s Knowledge Martha Nussbaum 1990 American English
17171 Time And Narrative, Volume 3 Paul Ricoeur 1985 French French
17171 Fields Of Sense: A New Realist Ontology Markus Gabriel 2013 German English
17171 You Are Not A Brain Markus Gabriel 2015 German German
17171 The Primordial Mind In Health And Illness Michael Robbins 2011 American Unknown
17171 Ritual And Its Consequences: An Essay On The Limits Of Sincerity Adam B. Seligman 2008 American English
16992 Between Man And Man Martin Buber 1944 Austrian English
17171 What Is Existential Anthropology? Michael D. Jackson New Zealand English
17171 Lectures On Imagination Paul Ricoeur Unknown French
17171 Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation To Imagination Donnel B. Stern 1997 American English
17171 Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction Jan Westerhoff 2009 British English
17171 Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism And Human Cognition Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans, Arindam Chakrabarti American English
17171 Soul Boom Rainn Wilson 2023 American English
17050 What The Buddha Taught Walpola Rahula 1959 British English
17171 Sur Le Bord De La Rivière Piedra, Je Me Suis Assise Et J'ai Pleuré Paulo Coelho 1994 Brazilian Portuguese
17080 Manhã Submersa Vergílio Ferreira 1953 Portuguese Portuguese
17171 A Prayer For The Crown Shy Becky Chambers 2022 American English
17171 De Schopenhauer Kuur Irvin D. Yalom 2005 American English
17171 The Dark Enlightenment Nick Land 2012 British English
17171 Dying Cory Taylor 2016 Australian English
17128 Aphorismen Zur Lebensweisheit Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 German German
17171 Wilderness Essays John Muir American English
16863 Ensayos I Michel de Montaigne 1580 French French
16915 Cape Cod Henry David Thoreau 1865 American English
17171 Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Philip K. Dick American English
17171 Thou Art That Joseph Campbell American English
17171 The Inner Reaches Of Outer Space Joseph Campbell 1986 American English
17171 Pathways To Bliss Joseph Campbell American English
17171 Always Remember Charlie Mackesy British English
17171 Is Science Western In Origin? C.K. Raju Indian English
17171 Of Consolation To Helvia Seneca 2042 Roman English
17018 Johnathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach 1970 American English
17168 Fantastic Planet Stefan Wul 1957 French French
17171 Against The Machine Paul Kingsnorth British English
17171 Anleitung Zum Unglücklichsein Paul Watzlawick 1983 Austrian German
17171 Focault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian
17171 A Book Of Silence Maitland, Sara 2008 British English
17170 The Death Ivan Ilych And Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russian Russian
17171 Stand Firm Svend Brinkmann Danish Danish
17171 Perlmann's Silence Pascal Mercier Swiss German
17171 Psychology Of Money Morgan Housel 2020 American English
17171 Saint Thomas Aquinas And Saint Francis Of Assisi G.K. Chesterton English English
16898 The Brothers Karmazov Dostoevsky, Fyodor 1880 Russian Russian
17171 Story Of Your Life Ted Chiang 1998 American English
17171 Three Body Problem Boxed Set Liu Cixin 2006 Chinese Chinese
16882 Frank Herbert's Dune Saga 6 Book Boxed Set Frank Herbert 1965 American English
17024 The Twilight Of The Idols Nietzsche 1889 German German
17103 Antichrist Nietzsche 1895 German German
17171 Watermark Joseph Brodsky 1989 Unknown English
17171 God And The Chip Stahl, William A. 1999 American English
17098 Mémoires D'hadrien, Carnets De Notes De Mémoires D'hadrien Marguerite Yourcenar 1951 French French
17171 Who Paid The Pipers Of Western Marxism? Gabriel Rockhill American English
17171 Christ Is Recrucified Kazantzakis Greek Greek
17171 Al Qaeda And What It Means To Be Modern John Gray 2003 British English
17171 Omnisophie Gunter Dueck German German
17171 Als Zeuge Der Zeit Arthur Koestler 1983 German Unknown
17171 Also Sprach Bellavista. Neapel, Liebe Und Freiheit. Luciano De Crescenzo 1977 Italian Italian
17171 Der Unbewußte Gott. Psychotherapie Und Religion Frankl, Viktor E. 2005 Austrian German
17171 Lettere A Lucilio Seneca 2064 Roman Italian
17171 Schizoanalytic Cartographies Félix Guattari 1989 French French
17171 Psychotherapy And Materialism Unknown Unknown Unknown
17171 Will The Circle Be Unbroken? Studs Terkel 1996 American English
17171 Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson American English
17171 Escapism YI-FU Than American English