The Greatest Books of All Time on Philosophy

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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
17120 Medieval In La Jim Paul 1996 American English
17120 List Of Books Frederic Raphael 1981 British Unknown
17120 Collected Letters George Bernard Shaw 1972 British English
17120 After Babel George Steiner 1975 British English
17120 Simone Weil Simone Weil 1986 French French
17120 Swallowing Clouds Anthony Zee 1990 American English
17120 What's The Big Idea? Oscar Brenifier 2001 French English
17120 Pensa Hi Brigitte Labbé 2002 Unknown Unknown
17120 What About Anne-Sophie Chilard 2023 French Unknown
17120 Les Goûters Philo Brigitte Labbé 1996 French French
17120 Being Logical D. Q. McInerny 2004 American English
17120 The Dictionary Of Fashionable Nonsense Ophelia Benson, Jeremy Stangroom 2004 British English
17120 Realism And Truth Michael Devitt 1991 American English
17120 The Social Construction Of What? Ian Hacking 1999 Canadian English
17120 Philosopher On Dover Beach Roger Scruton 1990 British English
17120 The View From Nowhere Thomas Nagel 1986 American English
17120 Historied Thought, Constructed World Joseph Margolis 1995 American English
17120 Just The Arguments Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone 2011 American English
17120 Real Materialism And Other Essays Galen Strawson 2008 British English
17120 Eastern Philosophy Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2005 British English
17120 Relativism Refuted Harvey Siegel 1987 American English
17120 The Problem Of The Soul Owen J. Flanagan 2002 American English
17120 A Short History Of Modern Philosophy Roger Scruton 1982 British English
17120 Human Nature After Darwin Janet Radcliffe Richards 2000 British English
17120 Our Posthuman Future Francis Fukuyama 2002 American English
17120 The Darwin Wars Andrew Brown 1999 British English
17120 Labyrinths Of Reason William Poundstone 1988 American English
17120 The Courtier And The Heretic Matthew Stewart 2006 American English
17120 The Anthropic Cosmological Principle John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler 1986 British English
16843 The Crisis Of The Modern World (Guenon, Rene. Works.) René Guénon 1927 French French
17120 In Search Of Walid Masoud Jabra Ibrahim Jabra 1978 Palestinian Arabic
17120 Thus Spoke Abu Huraira Mahmoud Messadi 1973 Tunisian Unknown
17120 Rubaiyyat Bahari Mohamed Gibreel Unknown Unknown
17120 Seventh Day Of Creation Abdel Khaliq al-Rikabi 2008 Iraqi Arabic
17120 The Theocrat Bensalem Himmich 1997 Moroccan Arabic
17120 Time And Narrative (Time & Narrative) Paul Ricœur 1983 French French
16898 Dear And Glorious Physician Taylor Caldwell 1959 American English
17120 The Courage To Be Disliked Ichirō Kishimi, Fumitake Koga 2013 Japanese Japanese
17120 Motherhood Sheila Heti 2018 Canadian English
17120 Sacred Hoops Spiritual Lessons Of A Hardwood Warrior Phil Jackson 1995 American English
17120 Zero Charles Seife 2000 American English
16994 Parmenides Plato -369 Greek Ancient greek
17120 The Bed Of Procrustes Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2010 American English
17120 Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman 2021 British English
17120 The Daily Stoic Ryan Holiday 2016 American English
17120 Benjamin Franklin Walter Isaacson 2003 American English
17120 Isaac Newton James Gleick 2003 American English
17120 Culture And Value Ludwig Wittgenstein 1977 Austrian German
16933 An Autobiography RG Collingwood 1939 British English
17120 The Conspiracy Against The Human Race Thomas Ligotti 2010 American English
17120 Eros The Bittersweet Anne Carson 1986 Canadian English
17120 When Nietzsche Wept Irvin D. Yalom 1992 American English
17120 The Life You Can Save Peter Singer 2009 Australian English
17120 Lesser Ruins Mark Haber 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Women Are Up To Something Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb 2022 Unknown English
17120 Technofeudalism Yanis Varoufakis 2024 Greek English
17120 The Serviceberry Robin Wall Kimmerer 2024 Unknown English
17120 Meditations For Mortals Oliver Burkeman 2024 British English
17120 Concerning The Future Of Souls Joy Williams 2024 Unknown English
17120 Freedom From Fear Alan S. Kahan 2024 Unknown English
17120 Twilight Of Democracy Anne Applebaum 2020 American English
17120 Summa Contra Gentiles Thomas Aquinas 1992 Italian Latin
17120 The World According To Star Wars Cass R. Sunstein 2016 American English
16768 The Last Of The Wine Mary Renault 1956 British English
17120 Breakfast With Buddha Roland Merullo 2007 American English
17120 All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten Robert Fulghum 1986 American English
17120 The Hinge Factor Erik Durschmied 1999 Unknown English
17120 The Revolt Of The Public And The Crisis Of Authority In The New Millennium Martin Gurri 2014 Unknown English
17120 Faces Of Moderation Aurelian Craiutu 2016 Unknown English
17120 On Freedom Timothy Snyder 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Notebook Roland Allen 2024 Unknown English
17036 The Golden Dawn Israel Regardie 1971 British English
17084 Initiation Into Hermetics Franz Bardon 1962 Czech German
17120 Living On Earth Peter Godfrey-Smith 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Greatest Of All Plagues David Lay Williams 2024 Unknown English
17120 Why We Die Venki Ramakrishnan 2024 Unknown English
17120 Limitarianism Ingrid Robeyns 2023 Unknown English
17120 Supremacy Parmy Olson 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Marriage Question Clare Carlisle 2022 British English
17120 A Guide To The Good Life William B. Irvine 2008 American English
17120 The Rule Of Law Tom Bingham 2010 British English
17120 Mountains Of The Mind Robert Macfarlane 2003 British English
17120 The Idea Of India Sunil Khilnani 1997 Indian English
17120 Poverty And Famines Amartya Sen 1981 Indian English
17120 Elementary Aspects Of Peasant Insurgency In Colonial India Ranajit Guha 1984 Indian English
17120 Le Code De La Conscience Stanislas Dehaene 2014 French French
17120 Ludwig Wittgenstein Ray Monk 1990 British English
17120 At Home With André And Simone Weil Sylvie Weil 2009 Unknown French
17120 Kant Manfred Kuehn 2001 Unknown English
17120 Simone De Beauvoir Toril Moi 2008 Unknown English
17120 Frantz Fanon David Macey 2001 Unknown English
17120 The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen 2005 Unknown English
17120 The Essential Calvin And Hobbes Bill Watterson 1988 American English
17120 The Chinese Machiavelli Dennis Bloodworth 1976 Chinese English
17120 Readings In Classical Chinese Philosophy Philip J. Ivanhoe, Bryan W. Van Norden 2001 Chinese English
17120 Confucian Moral Self Cultivation Philip J. Ivanhoe 1993 Chinese English
17120 The Philosophy Of The Daodejing Hans-Georg Moeller 2006 Chinese English
17120 Finding Them Gone Red Pine 2015 Chinese English
17120 Readings In Later Chinese Philosophy Justin Tiwald, Bryan W. Van Norden 2014 Chinese English
17120 The Dog Who Followed The Moon James Norbury 2024 Unknown English
17120 Who’s Afraid Of Gender? Judith Butler 2024 American English
17120 Women's Liberation And The African Freedom Struggle Thomas Sankara 1990 Burkinabé French
17120 I Write What I Like Steve Biko 1978 South African English
17120 Stokely Speaks Stokely Carmichael 1971 American English
17120 Stranger Faces Namwali Serpell 2020 Unknown English
17120 Freethinkers Susan Jacoby 2004 American English
17120 The Afterlife Of Data Carl Öhman 2024 Unknown English
17120 Sources Of The Self Charles Taylor 1989 Canadian English
17120 They Call Me Coach John Wooden, Jack Tobin 1972 American English
17120 Golf In The Kingdom Michael Murphy 1976 American English
17120 Beer And Circus Murray Sperber 2000 American English
17120 We Have Never Been Woke Musa Al-Gharbi 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Work Of Art Adam Moss 2024 Unknown English
17120 Free Speech Jacob Mchangama 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Wonder Paradox Jennifer Michael Hecht 2023 American English
17120 Third Millennium Thinking John Campbell, Saul Perlmutter, Robert MacCoun 2024 Unknown English
17120 Living Untethered Michael A. Singer 2022 American English
17120 Bronze Age Mindset Bronze Age Pervert 2018 Unknown English
17120 The Thirst For Annihilation Nick Land 1992 British English
17120 Yoga Emmanuel Carrère 2020 French French