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
14984 Redemption in Indigo Karen Lord 2010 Barbadian English
14984 Treasury Of The True Dharma Eye Kazuaki Tanahashi 2010 Japanese Japanese
14984 Strega Nona Tomie dePaola 1975 American English
15654 Companionable Books Henry Van Dyke 1922 American English
15741 The Faber Book Of Aphorisms W. H. Auden 1962 British English
15903 Dhammapada Unknown -299 Multiple Pali
15893 Български народни приказки Angel Karaliichev 1961 Bulgarian Bulgarian
15903 Milinda Panha Unknown -100 Mulitple Pali
15903 A Guide To The Bodhisattva Way Of Life Santideva 700 Indian Sanskrit
15903 Stray Birds Rabindranath Tagore 1916 Indian Bengali
16573 The Wisdom Of Life And Counsels And Maxims Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 German German
16580 Schopenhauer As Educator Friedrich Nietzsche 1874 German German
16618 Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1950 Armenian Russian
16708 Croatian Tales of Long Ago Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic 1916 Croatian Croatian
16646 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
17125 Die Wise Stephen Jenkinson 2015 Canadian English
17125 African Tales Gcina Mhlophe 1989 South African English
16924 At The Hawk's Well William Butler Yeats 1916 Irish English
17125 Lame Deer Richard Erodes, John Fire Lame Deer 1972 Unknown English
17125 Think Like A Monk Jay Shetty 2020 British English
17125 Thus Spoke Abu Huraira Mahmoud Messadi 1973 Tunisian Unknown
17125 Rubaiyyat Bahari Mohamed Gibreel Unknown Unknown
16889 Taran Wanderer Lloyd Alexander 1967 American English
17125 Anam Cara John O'Donohue 1997 Irish English
16992 Discourses And Selected Writings Epictetus 108 Greek Greek
17125 The Shaman's Mind Jonathan Hammond 2020 Unknown English
16985 Winged Pharaoh Joan Grant 1937 British English
17125 It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It Robert Fulghum 1989 American English
17125 The Book Of Virtues William Bennett 1993 American English
17125 The Great American Bathroom Book Stevens W. Anderson 2007 American English
17125 The Bright Book Of Life Harold Bloom 2020 American English
17125 Be Water, My Friend Shannon Lee 2020 Unknown English
17084 O Livro Das 1001 Noites; Volume 2 Of 7 Unknown -800 Multiple Arabic
17125 Barlaam And Josaphat Gui de Cambrai 2014 French Old french
16997 The Tales Of Sendebar Unknown -100 Multiple Sanskrit
17125 Lon Po Po Ed Young 1989 American English
17125 Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters John Steptoe 1987 American English
17125 The Tales Of Uncle Remus Julius Lester 1987 American English
17125 The Cat Who Saved Books Sōsuke Natsukawa 2017 Japanese Japanese
17125 The Dream Of Confucius Jean Levi 1989 French French
17125 A Word Or Two Before I Go Arthur Krystal 2023 American English
17125 Το εγχειρίδιο του πολεμιστή του φωτός Paulo Coelho 1997 Brazilian Portuguese
17125 O Monge Que Vendeu O Seu Ferrari Kriti Sharma 1997 Unknown English
16860 1001 Arabian Nights Anonymous -800 Multiple Arabic
17125 Beware Of Chicken 4 CasualFarmer Unknown Unknown
17125 The Fifth Agreement Don Miguel Ruiz 2010 Mexican English
17125 Selected Poems Su Tung–p’o Chinese Chinese
17125 The Adventures Of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom Ignacy Krasicki 1776 Polish Polish
17125 The Five Major Pieces To The Life Puzzle Jim Rohn 1991 American English
17125 Hekate Nikita Gill 2023 British 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 Odyssee Stephen Fry British Unknown
17125 Traditional Buddhist Mind Training: Essential Mind Training Thupten Jinpa Tibetan English
17125 The Spirituality Of Imperfection Ernest Kurtz 1992 American English
17125 The Circle Of Fire Don Miguel Ruiz 2013 Unknown English
17125 The Book Of Job Harold S. Kushner 2012 American English
17125 Omnisophie Gunter Dueck German German
17125 Also Sprach Bellavista. Neapel, Liebe Und Freiheit. Luciano De Crescenzo 1977 Italian Italian
17125 Lettere A Lucilio Seneca 2064 Roman Italian