The Greatest Philosophical Books Since 2000

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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
8202 The Day I Wasn't There Hélène Cixous 2000 French French
8212 Landscape Of Farewell Alex Miller 2007 Australian English
8228 The Rose Of Time Bei Dao 2005 Chinese Chinese
8260 The Poetry Of Thought George Steiner 2011 British English
8278 The Authoritarian Dynamic Karen Stenner 2005 American English
8374 Jiryoku To Jūryoku No Hakken Yoshitaka Yamamoto 2003 Japanese Unknown
8491 Underland Robert Macfarlane 2019 British English
8496 Transcritique Kojin Karatani 2003 Japanese Japanese
8572 Fear Itself Ira Katznelson 2013 American English
8574 Deviations Gayle Rubin 2011 American English
8589 사람, 장소, 환대 김현경 2015 Korean Korean
8620 Carnality Lina Wolff 2019 Swedish Swedish
8621 Age Of Fracture Daniel T. Rodgers 2011 American English
8680 In Defense Of Sanity G. K. Chesterton 2011 British English
8847 Philosophy of the Tourist Hiroki Azuma 2017 Japanese Unknown
8884 Black and Blur Fred Moten 2017 American English
8937 Seibutsu To Museibutsu No Aida Shinichi Fukuoka 2007 Japanese Japanese
8950 Time Without Keys Ida Vitale 2019 Uruguayan Spanish
8972 A Short History Of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson 2003 American English
8976 The Great Divide Joseph Stiglitz 2015 American English
9035 From A To X John Berger 2008 British English
9045 L'amour, La Mer Pascal Quignard 2002 French French
9131 Through the Language Glass Guy Deutscher 2010 British English
9159 Correspondance Avec Le Mur Hélène Cixous 2009 French French
9159 La Blessure Et La Soif Laurence Plazenet 2009 French French
9191 The Accidental Universe Alan Lightman 2014 American English
9191 But What If We're Wrong? Chuck Klosterman 2016 American English
9219 On Tyranny Timothy Snyder 2017 American English
9223 The Passenger Cormac McCarthy 2022 American English
9226 Poems Jorge Luis Borges 2010 Argentinian Spanish
9252 The Entrepreneurial State Mariana Mazzucato 2013 British English
9354 The Old Garden Hwang Sok-yong 2000 Korean Korean
9509 Political Order And Political Decay Francis Fukuyama 2014 American English
9622 Abisul Luminat Nicolae Balotă 2018 Romanian Unknown
9697 The Information James Gleick 2011 American English
9725 실격당한 자들을 위한 변론 김원영 2018 Korean Korean
9772 Democracy For Realists Christopher H. Achen, Larry Bartels 2016 American English
9799 Axiomatic Maria Tumarkin 2018 Australian English
9807 The Childhood Of Jesus J. M. Coetzee 2013 South African English
9817 The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak 2009 Turkish Turkish
9819 The Precipice Toby Ord 2020 British English
9825 The Opposite Of A Person Lieke Marsman 2017 Dutch Dutch
9826 Tristano Dies Antonio Tabucchi 2004 Italian Italian
9848 Entre Les Deux Il N’y A Rien Mathieu Riboulet 2006 French French
10002 Where Tigers Are At Home Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès 2008 French French
10060 Campo De Retamas Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio 2013 Spanish Spanish
10066 The Silences Of Hammerstein Hans Magnus Enzensberger 2008 German German
10077 To Shape A New World Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry 2018 American English
10082 Disciplined Minds Jeff Schmidt 2000 American English
10101 My Life As A Russian Novel Emmanuel Carrère 2007 French French
10104 Orwell And Politics George Orwell 2001 British English
10116 The God Delusion Richard Dawkins 2006 British English
10125 The Winds Of Change Eugene Linden 2006 Unknown English
10204 Slouching Towards Utopia Bradford DeLong 2022 American English
10236 The Apology Eve Ensler 2019 American English
10381 Another Day In The Colony Chelsea Watego 2021 Unknown English
10396 Essays On Music Theodor Adorno 2002 German 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 The Tangled Tree David Quammen 2018 American English
10505 A Voyage To India Gonçalo M. Tavares 2010 Portuguese Portuguese
10523 Splinters Leslie Jamison 2024 Unknown English
10540 My Struggle: Book 6 Karl Ove Knausgård 2011 Norwegian Norwegian
10736 Truth And Truthfulness Bernard Williams 2002 British English
10823 Touching Feeling Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 2003 American English
10825 This Bridge We Call Home Gloria Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating 2002 Multiple English
10914 Common As Air Lewis Hyde 2010 American English
10954 Surprised By Hope N.T. Wright 2008 British English
10987 A Brief History Of Neoliberalism David Harvey 2005 British English
11001 Shifting The Silence Etel Adnan 2020 Unknown English
11024 Ways Of Being Alive Baptiste Morizot 2020 French French
11055 Two Years Eight Months And Twenty Eight Nights Salman Rushdie 2015 British English
11109 The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton John Milton 2007 British English
11235 Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water António Lobo Antunes 2017 Portuguese Portuguese
11351 The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green 2021 American English
11503 The Nature Of Nature Enric Sala 2020 Spanish English
11565 Trick Mirror Jia Tolentino 2019 American English
11605 The Wisdom Of Crowds James Surowiecki 2004 American English
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 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
11856 Dominion Tom Holland 2019 British English
11873 London Orbital Iain Sinclair 2002 British English
11898 The Drama Of Doctrine Kevin Vanhoozer 2004 American English
12047 Landing Light Don Paterson 2003 British English
12048 Omega Minor Paul Verhaeghen 2004 Belgian Dutch
12081 Shop Class As Soulcraft Matthew B. Crawford 2009 American English
12190 The Pleasures Of Reading In An Age Of Distraction Alan Jacobs 2011 American English
12206 Laurus Eugene Vodolazkin 2012 Russian Russian
12211 Jesus Of Nazareth Pope Benedict XVI 2007 German German
12286 To Change The World James Davison Hunter 2010 American English
12312 The Obstacle Is The Way Ryan Holiday 2014 American English
12469 Figuring Maria Popova 2019 American English
12503 Signature In The Cell Stephen C. Meyer 2009 American English
12613 The Christian Imagination Willie James Jennings 2010 American English
12708 The Revenge of Gaia James Lovelock 2006 British English
12988 If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Eliezer Yudkowsky 2025 American English
13245 God, Sexuality, And The Self Sarah Coakley 2013 British English
13315 Schubert’s Winter Journey Ian Bostridge 2015 British English
13511 Prophecy Without Contempt Cathleen Kaveny 2016 Unknown English
13556 Part Of The Solution Ulrich Peltzer 2007 German German
13600 The Roving Shadows Pascal Quignard 2002 French English
13729 Oscar And The Lady In Pink Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2002 French French
13749 The Enchantments Of Mammon Eugene McCarraher 2019 American English
13765 Anathem Neal Stephenson 2008 American English
13800 Blumenberg Sibylle Lewitscharoff 2011 German German
13800 Dancing On Our Turtle's Back Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2011 Canadian English
13817 Morality Jonathan Sacks 2019 British English
13879 Thrown Kerry Howley 2014 American English
13937 What It Means To Be Human O. Carter Snead 2020 Unknown English
13941 The Noonday Demon Andrew Solomon 2001 American English
13941 Daring Greatly Brené Brown 2012 American English