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Philosophical Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 497 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,474,022 ratings — published 1942
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 445 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,679,647 ratings — published 1988
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.09 — 899,550 ratings — published 1922
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,500,437 ratings — published 1915
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,125,472 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,951,679 ratings — published 1890
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,552,425 ratings — published 1943
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.10 — 558,404 ratings — published 1984
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.37 — 914,836 ratings — published 1946
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.28 — 368,919 ratings — published 180
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 287,822 ratings — published 1991
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,643,769 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,705,904 ratings — published 1945
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 152 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,582,947 ratings — published 2020
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.39 — 403,606 ratings — published 1879
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,122,933 ratings — published 1932
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.16 — 247,136 ratings — published 1864
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,774,001 ratings — published 2001
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.07 — 180,719 ratings — published 1883
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,269 ratings — published -400
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.02 — 325,239 ratings — published 1947
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,241,760 ratings — published 1997
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.76 — 306,976 ratings — published 1759
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,861 ratings — published 1886
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.78 — 248,643 ratings — published 1974
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.29 — 186,079 ratings — published -350
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.93 — 144,015 ratings — published 1938
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.94 — 411,214 ratings — published 1925
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.16 — 102,718 ratings — published 1942
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.89 — 339,979 ratings — published 1943
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.84 — 392,812 ratings — published 1513
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.69 — 410,194 ratings — published 1957
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.94 — 587,494 ratings — published -500
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.23 — 334,896 ratings — published 1923
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,961,972 ratings — published 1818
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 87 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.02 — 141,497 ratings — published 1956
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.02 — 822,429 ratings — published 2003
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.18 — 655,832 ratings — published 1996
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,269,849 ratings — published 1954
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,929,246 ratings — published 1963
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,864,894 ratings — published 1993
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.13 — 221,941 ratings — published 1927
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.20 — 199,969 ratings — published 2021
The Tao of Pooh (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.01 — 132,498 ratings — published 1982
Demian (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.14 — 140,732 ratings — published 1919
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.14 — 241,426 ratings — published 1886
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.06 — 609,440 ratings — published 1995
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.10 — 999,194 ratings — published 2001
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.01 — 105,795 ratings — published 1992
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.93 — 274,097 ratings — published 1948
“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!”
― If: A Father's Advice to His Son
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!”
― If: A Father's Advice to His Son
“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece












