Practical Philosophy Books
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Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.28 — 351,239 ratings — published 180
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,306 ratings — published 2008
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.32 — 56,859 ratings — published 64
Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,537 ratings — published 1981
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,152 ratings — published 1580
The Consolations of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,074 ratings — published 2000
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.37 — 882,285 ratings — published 1946
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,827 ratings — published 125
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.90 — 268,654 ratings — published 2018
The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,883 ratings — published 1647
The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.96 — 609 ratings — published 150
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.15 — 100,217 ratings — published 2014
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,055 ratings — published 2007
How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.15 — 854 ratings — published
How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,523 ratings — published 2018
Deficiencies and Propensities of the Human Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,295 ratings — published 1970
The Art of Happiness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,309 ratings — published -300
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.38 — 71,670 ratings — published 2020
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.97 — 118,946 ratings — published 2002
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.92 — 140,756 ratings — published 2013
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,369 ratings — published 2009
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.16 — 45,769 ratings — published 49
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.49 — 218,453 ratings — published 2014
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,602 ratings — published 2017
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.15 — 177,960 ratings — published 2018
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,414,476 ratings — published 2016
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.95 — 62,156 ratings — published 1645
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.16 — 189,904 ratings — published 2016
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.34 — 212,954 ratings — published 2016
Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,582 ratings — published 1844
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,981 ratings — published 1951
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,166 ratings — published 1997
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.37 — 52,347 ratings — published 2016
Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,327 ratings — published 2012
The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,326 ratings — published 1992
Discourses and Selected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.40 — 12,021 ratings — published 108
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,907 ratings — published 2010
Nature and Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,318 ratings — published 1836
Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,968 ratings — published -501
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.09 — 45,077 ratings — published 2006
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.05 — 38,067 ratings — published 2012
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.29 — 182,879 ratings — published -350
Discursos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,608 ratings — published 108
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,820 ratings — published 2012
What You Need to Know About AI: A Primer on Being Human in an Artificially Intelligent World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.37 — 19 ratings — published
The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,406 ratings — published 2024
The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.05 — 35,116 ratings — published 1997
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,206,113 ratings — published 1997
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,572 ratings — published 2015
“Sometimes there is so much external noise going around that we lose ourselves in the process.”
― The Suited Monk: Finding Your Life's Purpose and True Happiness
― The Suited Monk: Finding Your Life's Purpose and True Happiness
“He is capable of turning everything into anything--snow into skin, skin into blossoms, blossoms into sugar, sugar into powder, and powder back into little drifts of snow--for all that matters to him, apparently, is to make things into what they are not, which is doubtless proof that he cannot stand being anywhere for long, wherever he happens to be.”
― The Man Without Qualities
― The Man Without Qualities


