The Greatest Philosophical Books Since 2010

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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
1101 Outline Rachel Cusk 2014 British English
1110 The Overstory Richard Powers 2018 American English
1252 Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari 2011 Israeli Hebrew
1703 The Argonauts Maggie Nelson 2015 American English
1974 The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 American English
2076 Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 2011 Israeli English
2218 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes 2011 British English
2311 Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu 2015 Romanian Romanian
2445 The Map And The Territory Michel Houellebecq 2010 French French
2626 Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty 2013 French French
2882 Septology Jon Fosse 2019 Norwegian Norwegian
2935 The Better Angels Of Our Nature Steven Pinker 2011 American English
2979 Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer 2013 American English
3092 Disturbance Philippe Lançon 2018 French French
3097 Open City Teju Cole 2011 American English
3183 Minor Detail Adania Shibli 2017 Palestinian Arabic
3205 When We Cease To Understand The World Adrian Nathan West, Benjamin Labatut 2020 Chilean Spanish
3211 Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari 2015 Israeli Hebrew
3235 When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi 2016 American English
3469 Solar Bones Mike McCormack 2016 Irish English
3576 The Possessed Elif Batuman 2010 Turkish English
3594 Thick Tressie McMillan Cottom 2019 American English
3600 Debt David Graeber 2011 American English
4054 Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner 2011 American English
4135 The Faraway Nearby Rebecca Solnit 2013 American English
4155 Asymmetry Lisa Halliday 2018 American English
4418 The Swerve Stephen Greenblatt 2011 American English
5611 The Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt 2012 American English
5614 The Mushroom At The End Of The World Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 2015 American English
5642 Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker 2018 American English
5780 Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake 2020 British English
5996 The Coddling Of The American Mind Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff 2018 American English
6162 Arguably Christopher Hitchens 2011 British English
6261 At The Existentialist Café Sarah Bakewell 2016 British English
6283 Sur La Scène Intérieure Marcel Cohen 2013 French French
6352 The Shallows Nicolas Carr 2010 American English
6632 Confessions Jaume Cabré 2011 Spanish Catalan
6716 How To Change Your Mind Michael Pollan 2018 American English
6899 Exhalation Ted Chiang 2019 American English
7205 Voroshilovgrad Serhiy Zhadan 2010 Ukrainian Ukrainian
7602 The Beginning Of Infinity David Deutsch 2011 British English
7751 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff 2019 American English
7811 The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides 2011 American English
7836 The Midnight Library Matt Haig 2020 British English
7876 Baumgartner Paul Auster 2023 American English
7899 The Gentrification of the Mind Sarah Schulman 2012 American English
8143 Down Girl Kate Manne 2017 American English
8192 The Order Of Time Carlo Rovelli 2017 Italian Italian
8199 Acasă, pe Cîmpia Armaghedonului Marta Petreu 2011 Romanian Romanian
8260 The Poetry Of Thought George Steiner 2011 British English
8491 Underland Robert Macfarlane 2019 British English
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
8950 Time Without Keys Ida Vitale 2019 Uruguayan Spanish
8976 The Great Divide Joseph Stiglitz 2015 American English
9131 Through the Language Glass Guy Deutscher 2010 British English
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
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
9819 The Precipice Toby Ord 2020 British English
9825 The Opposite Of A Person Lieke Marsman 2017 Dutch Dutch
10060 Campo De Retamas Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio 2013 Spanish Spanish
10077 To Shape A New World Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry 2018 American 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
10406 The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt 2024 American English
10448 The Testament Of Mary Colm Toibin 2012 Irish 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
10914 Common As Air Lewis Hyde 2010 American 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
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
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
11805 The Meursault Investigation Kamel Daoud 2013 Algerian French
11856 Dominion Tom Holland 2019 British English
12190 The Pleasures Of Reading In An Age Of Distraction Alan Jacobs 2011 American English
12206 Laurus Eugene Vodolazkin 2012 Russian Russian
12286 To Change The World James Davison Hunter 2010 American English
12311 The Obstacle Is The Way Ryan Holiday 2014 American English
12469 Figuring Maria Popova 2019 American English
12613 The Christian Imagination Willie James Jennings 2010 American 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
13749 The Enchantments Of Mammon Eugene McCarraher 2019 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