The Stranger by Albert CamusMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaSiddhartha by Hermann HesseCandide by Voltaire
Myth, Meaning, and Experience
270 books — 92 voters
The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Complete World of Greek Mythology by Richard BuxtonMythology by Edith HamiltonThe Greek Myths by Robert Graves
Homer: The Blind Bard of Chios
102 books — 28 voters

From Darkness Into Light by A. HelwaSecrets of Divine Love by A. HelwaThe Secret Magdalene by Ki LongfellowThe Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellI Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj
Different Takes on Religion & Spirituality
1,376 books — 1,109 voters
The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea EliadeA History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2 by Mircea EliadeNew Age Religion and Western Culture by Wouter J. HanegraaffLa Biographie Du Prophète Mouhammad, Le Nectar Cacheté by Ar-RahikThe Varieties of Religious Experience by William  James
Religious studies
141 books — 38 voters

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy DebordThe Seminar of Jacques Lacan by Jacques LacanMythologies by Roland BarthesThe Sublime Object of Ideology (Phronesis by Slavoj ŽižekThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
r/CriticalTheory Recommended Reading
84 books — 20 voters
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellThe Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellBeowulf by UnknownMythos by Stephen FryTao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY/FOLKLORE
212 books — 12 voters

Antigone by SophoclesOedipus the King by SophoclesOresteia by AeschylusThe Bacchae by EuripidesHelen by Euripides
Ancient Greek Tragedies
31 books — 6 voters
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanOutliers by Malcolm GladwellBlink by Malcolm GladwellQuiet by Susan CainPredictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Greatest Psychology Books
792 books — 1,333 voters

The Cottingley Secret by Hazel GaynorThe Cottingley Fairies by Ana SenderThe Coming of the Fairies by Arthur Conan DoyleCottingley by Alison LittlewoodThe Cottingley Cuckoo by A.J. Elwood
Cottingley Fairies
14 books — 10 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Most influential books under 100 pages
250 books — 927 voters