The Greatest Books of All Time on Wisdom

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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
14985 Redemption in Indigo Karen Lord 2010 Barbadian English
14985 Treasury Of The True Dharma Eye Kazuaki Tanahashi 2010 Japanese Japanese
14985 Strega Nona Tomie dePaola 1975 American English
15658 Companionable Books Henry Van Dyke 1922 American English
15745 The Faber Book Of Aphorisms W. H. Auden 1962 British English
15914 Dhammapada Unknown -299 Multiple Pali
15904 Български народни приказки Angel Karaliichev 1961 Bulgarian Bulgarian
15914 Milinda Panha Unknown -100 Mulitple Pali
15914 A Guide To The Bodhisattva Way Of Life Santideva 700 Indian Sanskrit
15914 Stray Birds Rabindranath Tagore 1916 Indian Bengali
15912 Letters On Ethics Seneca 62 Roman Latin
16515 King James Version Of The Bible various 1611 English English
16597 The Wisdom Of Life And Counsels And Maxims Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 German German
16606 Schopenhauer As Educator Friedrich Nietzsche 1874 German German
16646 Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1950 Armenian Russian
16736 Croatian Tales of Long Ago Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic 1916 Croatian Croatian
16669 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
17162 Die Wise Stephen Jenkinson 2015 Canadian English
17162 African Tales Gcina Mhlophe 1989 South African English
16957 At The Hawk's Well William Butler Yeats 1916 Irish English
17162 Lame Deer Richard Erodes, John Fire Lame Deer 1972 Unknown English
17162 Think Like A Monk Jay Shetty 2020 British English
17162 Thus Spoke Abu Huraira Mahmoud Messadi 1973 Tunisian Unknown
17162 Rubaiyyat Bahari Mohamed Gibreel Unknown Unknown
16916 Taran Wanderer Lloyd Alexander 1967 American English
17162 Anam Cara John O'Donohue 1997 Irish English
17025 Discourses And Selected Writings Epictetus 108 Greek Greek
17162 The Shaman's Mind Jonathan Hammond 2020 Unknown English
17028 Winged Pharaoh Joan Grant 1937 British English
17162 It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It Robert Fulghum 1989 American English
17162 The Book Of Virtues William Bennett 1993 American English
17162 The Great American Bathroom Book Stevens W. Anderson 2007 American English
17162 The Bright Book Of Life Harold Bloom 2020 American English
17162 Be Water, My Friend Shannon Lee 2020 Unknown English
17100 O Livro Das 1001 Noites; Volume 2 Of 7 Unknown -800 Multiple Arabic
17162 Barlaam And Josaphat Gui de Cambrai 2014 French Old french
17035 The Tales Of Sendebar Unknown -100 Multiple Sanskrit
17162 Lon Po Po Ed Young 1989 American English
17162 Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters John Steptoe 1987 American English
17162 The Tales Of Uncle Remus Julius Lester 1987 American English
17162 The Cat Who Saved Books Sōsuke Natsukawa 2017 Japanese Japanese
17162 The Dream Of Confucius Jean Levi 1989 French French
17162 A Word Or Two Before I Go Arthur Krystal 2023 American English
17162 Το εγχειρίδιο του πολεμιστή του φωτός Paulo Coelho 1997 Brazilian Portuguese
17162 O Monge Que Vendeu O Seu Ferrari Kriti Sharma 1997 Unknown English
16902 1001 Arabian Nights Anonymous -800 Multiple Arabic
17162 The Dalai Lama's Cat David Michie 2012 Australian English
17162 Beware Of Chicken 4 CasualFarmer Unknown Unknown
17162 The Fifth Agreement Don Miguel Ruiz 2010 Mexican English
17162 Selected Poems Su Tung–p’o Chinese Chinese
17162 The Adventures Of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom Ignacy Krasicki 1776 Polish Polish
17162 The Five Major Pieces To The Life Puzzle Jim Rohn 1991 American English
17162 Hekate Nikita Gill 2023 British English
16935 The King And The Corpse Heinrich Zimmer 1948 German English
17162 O Dia Do Curinga Jostein Gaarder 1990 Norwegian Norwegian
16999 Von Der Kürze Des Lebens · Vom Glücklichen Leben Seneca -49 Roman Latin
17162 Odyssee Stephen Fry British Unknown
17162 Traditional Buddhist Mind Training: Essential Mind Training Thupten Jinpa Tibetan English
17162 The Spirituality Of Imperfection Ernest Kurtz 1992 American English
17162 The Circle Of Fire Don Miguel Ruiz 2013 Unknown English
17162 The Book Of Job Harold S. Kushner 2012 American English
17162 Omnisophie Gunter Dueck German German
17162 Also Sprach Bellavista. Neapel, Liebe Und Freiheit. Luciano De Crescenzo 1977 Italian Italian
17162 The Books Of The Bible Anonymous Multiple Hebrew, aramaic, koine greek
17162 Lettere A Lucilio Seneca 2064 Roman Italian