Best Philosophical Literature
Fiction that aims to elighten the reader "philosophically" (whatever you take that word to mean).
1 The Stranger
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 193,750 ratings
2 Siddhartha
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 177,910 ratings
3 1984
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 915,593 ratings
4 The Little Prince
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 304,924 ratings
5 Crime and Punishment
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 192,578 ratings
6 The Brothers Karamazov
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 78,627 ratings
7 The Picture of Dorian Gray
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 254,437 ratings
8 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 33,002 ratings
9 Lord of the Flies
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3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 912,121 ratings
10 The Catcher in the Rye
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 1,098,372 ratings
11 Fahrenheit 451
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 515,187 ratings
12 The Trial
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 65,142 ratings
13 Sophie's World
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 69,086 ratings
14 The Alchemist
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 590,217 ratings
15 The Metamorphosis
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 162,862 ratings
16 Brave New World
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 550,065 ratings
17 The Plague
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 52,893 ratings
18 The Unbearable Lightness of...
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 121,548 ratings
19 Notes from Underground
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 39,963 ratings
20 Animal Farm & 1984
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 28,496 ratings
21 Zen and the Art of Motorcyc...
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 75,369 ratings
22 Steppenwolf
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 41,223 ratings
23 Slaughterhouse-Five
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 472,050 ratings
24 Nausea
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 26,897 ratings
25 The Prophet
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 77,628 ratings
26 Atlas Shrugged
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 149,311 ratings
27 The Fountainhead
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 145,348 ratings
28 The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 533,423 ratings
29 Candide
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 78,176 ratings
30 Demian
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 22,522 ratings
31 Frankenstein
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 466,901 ratings
32 The Republic
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 52,868 ratings
33 Tao Te Ching
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4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 37,857 ratings
34 The Screwtape Letters
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 108,677 ratings
35 Heart of Darkness
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3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 143,323 ratings
36 Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 73,140 ratings
37 No Exit and Three Other Plays
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 12,873 ratings
38 Hamlet
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 276,231 ratings
39 Tao of Pooh and Te of Pigle...
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 6,670 ratings
40 The Secret Magdalene
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
41 Faust: First Part
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 30,623 ratings
42 Waiting for Godot
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 51,371 ratings
43 The Grapes of Wrath
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 268,891 ratings
44 In Search of Lost Time
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4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 3,494 ratings
45 Cat's Cradle
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 129,559 ratings
46 The Magic Mountain
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 11,459 ratings
47 A Clockwork Orange
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 215,944 ratings
48 Meditations
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 12,794 ratings
49 The Curious Incident of the...
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 426,216 ratings
50 Night  (The Night Trilogy, #1)
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 322,540 ratings
51 Franny and Zooey
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 91,069 ratings
52 Fear and Trembling/Repetiti...
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 2,179 ratings
53 East of Eden
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 165,544 ratings
54 Beyond Good and Evil
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 20,617 ratings
55 Invisible Man
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 62,499 ratings
56 On the Road
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 140,684 ratings
57 Blindness (Blindness, #1)
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 62,011 ratings
58 Macbeth
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 249,504 ratings
59 Les Fleurs du Mal
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4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 15,762 ratings
60 Life of Pi
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 483,409 ratings
61 Aesop's Fables (Barnes & No...
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 45,910 ratings
62 Franz Kafka's The Castle
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 12,096 ratings
63 Flatland: A Romance of Many...
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 16,941 ratings
64 Illusions: The Adventures o...
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 22,524 ratings
65 Great Expectations
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 228,698 ratings
66 The Anti-Christ
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 6,062 ratings
67 Tuesdays With Morrie
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 262,190 ratings
68 The Myth of Sisyphus and Ot...
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 15,422 ratings
69 Narcissus and Goldmund
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 15,891 ratings
70 The Phantom Tollbooth
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 98,072 ratings
71 The Dispossessed
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 22,543 ratings
72 The Complete Stories
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4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 11,685 ratings
73 I Am That: Talks with Sri N...
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4.53 of 5 stars 4.53 avg rating — 1,028 ratings
74 The Glass Bead Game
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 10,654 ratings
75 Critique of Pure Reason
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 8,755 ratings
76 The First Death
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4.95 of 5 stars 4.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
77 Life... Love... Kumbh...
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4.89 of 5 stars 4.89 avg rating — 44 ratings
78 The Wall
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 5,971 ratings
79 The Man Without Qualities, ...
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4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 993 ratings
80 Einstein's Dreams
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 13,233 ratings
80 The Good Earth
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 107,006 ratings
82 The Trial and Death of Socr...
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 11,917 ratings
83 Autobiography of a Yogi
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 11,449 ratings
84 Till We Have Faces
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 20,869 ratings
85 Discourse on Method and Med...
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 10,697 ratings
86 To the Lighthouse
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 44,091 ratings
87 Foucault's Pendulum
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 27,258 ratings
88 The Road
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 275,044 ratings
89 Discipline and Punish: The ...
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 9,209 ratings
90 Z213: EXIT
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4.76 of 5 stars 4.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
91 The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 59,490 ratings
92 The Portable Nietzsche
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 4,573 ratings
93 Flow Down Like Silver: Hypa...
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4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 751 ratings
94 The God Delusion
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 72,424 ratings
95 We
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 18,774 ratings
96 The Death of Ivan Ilych
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 21,504 ratings
97 The Fall
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 21,298 ratings
98 Blood Meridian, or the Even...
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 33,978 ratings
99 Ütopya
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3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 20,100 ratings
100 Solaris
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 18,602 ratings
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message 1: by Vampirella (new)

Vampirella Each and every text could be a subject for a philosophical discussion. Thus, The Little Prince may "enlighten" the reader, as well as The Happy Prince and Other Tales.


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