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
17125 Conversations With David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace 2012 American English
16946 The World As Will And Representation, Volume I Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 German German
17047 Inquisiciones Jorge Luis Borges 1925 Argentinian Spanish
16992 Discourses And Selected Writings Epictetus 108 Greek Greek
17125 The Right To Oblivion Lowry Pressly 2024 Unknown English
17125 Naples 1925 Martin Mittelmeier 2024 Unknown German
17125 Life As No One Knows It Sara Imari Walker 2024 Unknown English
17125 Cosmic Connections Charles Taylor 2024 Unknown English
17125 Stranger Than We Can Imagine John Higgs 2015 British English
17125 Plato At The Googleplex Rebecca Goldstein 2014 American English
17125 Tolstoy's "War And Peace" A Study R.F. Christian 1978 Unknown English
17125 The Salmon Of Doubt Douglas Adams 2002 British English
17125 Leviathan And The Air Pump Steven Shapin 1985 Unknown English
16961 The Book Of Thoth Aleister Crowley 1944 British English
17125 Fanged Noumena Nick Land 2011 British English
17125 Better Never To Have Been David Benatar 2006 South African English
16935 Twilight Of The Idols/The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche 1888 German German
17125 It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It Robert Fulghum 1989 American English
17125 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17003 The World As Will And Representation, Volume Ii Arthur Schopenhauer 1844 German German
17125 Cyclonopedia Reza Negarestani 2008 Unknown English
17125 The Marriage Of Sense And Soul Ken Wilber 1998 American English
17125 Caminhar Frédéric Gros 2009 French French
17125 Magisteria Nicholas Spencer Unknown Unknown
17125 Be Water, My Friend Shannon Lee 2020 Unknown English
17034 Dostoevsky Joseph Frank 1864 American English
17125 Heavenly Participation Boersma, Hans 2011 Canadian English
17125 What Tech Calls Thinking Daub, Adrian 2020 Unknown English
17064 Candide And Other Stories Voltaire 1759 French French
17125 Threshold Rob Doyle 2020 Irish English
17125 Karl Marx Francis Wheen 1999 British English
17125 The Ecological Thought Timothy Morton 2010 British English
17125 Lipstick Traces Greil Marcus 1989 American English
17125 Looking For The Stranger Alice Kaplan 2016 Unknown English
17125 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
17125 Kafka Gilles Deleuze 1975 French French
17125 An Elemental Thing Eliot Weinberger 2007 American English
17125 Intelligence And Spirit Reza Negarestani 2018 Unknown English
16760 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
17125 Essays Critical And Clinical Gilles Deleuze 1993 French French
16945 Paideia Werner Wilhelm Jaeger 1934 German German
17125 Pericles The Athenian Rex Warner 1963 British English
17125 Rasero Francisco Rebolledo 1995 Mexican Spanish
17125 The Chinese Emperor Jean Levi 1985 French French
17125 The Dream Of Confucius Jean Levi 1989 French French
17125 Dagny, Or A Love Feast Zurab Karumidze 2014 Georgian English
17125 Thanks A Thousand A. J. Jacobs 2018 American English
17125 Grace In All Simplicity Chris Quigg, Robert Cahn 2023 Unknown English
17125 Elixir Theresa Levitt 2023 Unknown English
17125 The Mind Of A Bee Lars Chittka 2022 Unknown English
17125 Astrotopia Mary-Jane Rubenstein 2023 Unknown English
17125 To Name The Bigger Lie Sarah Viren 2023 Unknown English
17125 The Dimensions Of A Cave Greg Jackson 2023 Unknown English
17125 How To Be Multiple Helena de Bres 2023 Unknown Unknown
17125 The Revolutionary Temper Robert Darnton 2023 American English
17125 The Pensive Citadel Victor Brombert 2023 Unknown Unknown
17125 The Genius Of Their Age S. Frederick Starr 2023 Unknown English
17125 How To Be Adam Nicolson 2023 British English
17125 The Rigor Of Angels William Egginton 2023 Unknown English
17125 Some Unfinished Chaos Arthur Krystal 2023 Unknown Unknown
17125 A Word Or Two Before I Go Arthur Krystal 2023 American English
17125 The Marriage Question Clare Carlisle 2023 Unknown English
17125 The Philosopher Of Palo Alto John Tinnell 2023 Unknown English
17125 Parfit David Edmonds 2023 Unknown English
17125 The Written World And The Unwritten World Italo Calvino 2023 Italian Italian
17125 Three Roads Back Robert D. Richardson 2023 Unknown English
17125 The Guest Lecture Martin Riker 2023 Unknown English
17125 The Deadline Jill Lepore 2023 American English
17125 How Not To Kill Yourself Clancy Martin 2023 American English
17125 The Wounded World Chad L. Williams 2023 Unknown English
17125 J.L. Austin M.W. Rowe 2004 Unknown English
17125 Milton Friedman Jennifer Burns 2023 Unknown English
17125 Read People Like A Book Patrick King 2020 Unknown English
17125 The Trial Of Socrates I.F. Stone 1988 American English
16877 Attack Upon Christendom Soren Kierkegaard 1944 Danish Danish
17125 Flesh In The Age Of Reason Roy Porter 2003 British English
17125 Frozen Desire James Buchan 1997 British English
17125 The Ornament Of The World María Rosa Menocal 2002 American English
17125 Pagans And Christians Robin Lane Fox 1986 British English
16773 Sun And Steel Yukio Mishima 1968 Japanese Japanese
17125 Fox Dubravka Ugrešić 2017 Croatian Croatian
17125 Caballo De Troya J.J. Benítez 1984 Spanish Spanish
17125 Afrikalı Leo Amin Maalouf 1986 French French
17125 Journals And Papers Soren Kierkegaard 1839 Danish Danish
17125 Alternating Current Octavio Paz 1967 Mexican Spanish
17125 The Agony Of Christianity And Essays On Faith Miguel de Unamuno 1925 Spanish Spanish
17125 Selected Poems Su Tung–p’o Chinese Chinese
17125 Letters Of Thomas Mann Thomas Mann 1975 German German
17125 The Five Major Pieces To The Life Puzzle Jim Rohn 1991 American English
16897 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Iii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
17125 The Passions And The Interests Albert Hirschman 1977 American 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 The Nirvana Express Mick Brown 2023 Unknown English
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 Life And Words Veena Das 2006 Indian English
17125 The Spirituality Of Imperfection Ernest Kurtz 1992 American English
17125 Fields Of Sense: A New Realist Ontology Markus Gabriel 2013 German English
17125 Ritual And Its Consequences: An Essay On The Limits Of Sincerity Adam B. Seligman 2008 American English
17125 The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice And Tribal Wisdom Joan Halifax 1993 American English
16923 Between Man And Man Martin Buber 1944 Austrian English
17125 Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction Jan Westerhoff 2009 British English
17125 Soul Boom Rainn Wilson 2023 American English
17125 Practicing The Power Of Now Eckhart Tolle 1997 Canadian English
17125 The Great Experiment Yascha Mounk 2022 American English
16864 Cape Cod Henry David Thoreau 1865 American English
17125 The Wander Society Keri Smith 2016 Canadian English
17125 The Gita Anant Pai 1999 Indian English
17125 Of Consolation To Helvia Seneca 2042 Roman English
17125 The Circle Of Fire Don Miguel Ruiz 2013 Unknown English
17125 Christ The Conqueror Of Hell Hilarion Alfeyev 2009 Russian Russian
17125 Against The Machine Paul Kingsnorth British English
17125 A Book Of Silence Maitland, Sara 2008 British English
17125 Thinking In Systems Donella H. Meadows 2008 American English
17125 Yatharth Geeta Swami Adgadanand 1994 Indian Unknown