The Greatest Books of All Time on Self

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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
638 Being and Nothingness Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
1344 The Principles of Psychology William James 1890 American English
2293 The Divided Self R. D. Laing 1960 British English
3249 Lost in the Cosmos Walker Percy 1983 American English
5911 Poems Of Fernando Pessoa Fernando Pessoa 1942 Portuguese Portuguese
6373 The Feeling Of What Happens Antonio Damasio 1999 Portuguese English
7216 The Geographical History Of America Gertrude Stein 1936 American English
8443 Identity Milan Kundera 1998 Czech French
10457 Mr. Palomar Italo Calvino 1983 Italian Italian
11582 The Sickness Unto Death Soren Kierkegaard 1849 Danish Danish
12402 Dark Harbor Mark Strand 1993 American English
12514 The Mind's I Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett 1981 American English
15897 An Inquiry Into The Good Nishida Kitarō 1911 Japanese Japanese
16638 The Undiscovered Self C.G. Jung 1957 Swiss German
16723 Las Confesiones Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782 Genevan French
17113 The Inescapable Self Timothy Chappell 2006 British English
17113 Company Samuel Beckett 1979 Irish English
17113 Sources Of The Self Charles Taylor 1989 Canadian English
17113 You Are Not A Brain Markus Gabriel 2015 German German
16978 The Origins And History Of Consciousness Carl Jung, Franz Neumann, Helen R. Hull 1949 German German
17113 Thou Art That Joseph Campbell American English