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Philosophical Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 498 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,481,114 ratings — published 1942
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 448 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,689,491 ratings — published 1988
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.09 — 901,646 ratings — published 1922
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,507,056 ratings — published 1915
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,129,658 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,958,207 ratings — published 1890
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,558,907 ratings — published 1943
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.10 — 559,721 ratings — published 1984
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.37 — 918,066 ratings — published 1946
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.28 — 370,712 ratings — published 180
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 288,269 ratings — published 1991
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,659,711 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,720,132 ratings — published 1945
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 152 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,595,792 ratings — published 2020
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.39 — 405,197 ratings — published 1879
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.16 — 248,732 ratings — published 1864
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,127,026 ratings — published 1932
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,775,908 ratings — published 2001
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.07 — 181,114 ratings — published 1883
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,611 ratings — published -400
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.02 — 326,180 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 — 1,245,539 ratings — published 1997
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.76 — 307,438 ratings — published 1759
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.02 — 118,200 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 — 248,888 ratings — published 1974
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.29 — 186,357 ratings — published -350
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.93 — 144,465 ratings — published 1938
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.94 — 412,630 ratings — published 1925
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.16 — 103,534 ratings — published 1942
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.84 — 395,126 ratings — published 1513
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.89 — 340,239 ratings — published 1943
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.69 — 410,456 ratings — published 1957
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.94 — 588,722 ratings — published -500
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.23 — 335,417 ratings — published 1923
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,967,495 ratings — published 1818
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 87 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.02 — 142,083 ratings — published 1956
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.02 — 824,201 ratings — published 2003
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.18 — 656,968 ratings — published 1996
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,276,475 ratings — published 1954
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,937,487 ratings — published 1963
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,870,360 ratings — published 1993
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.13 — 222,517 ratings — published 1927
Demian (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.14 — 141,718 ratings — published 1919
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.20 — 201,187 ratings — published 2021
The Tao of Pooh (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.01 — 132,663 ratings — published 1982
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.05 — 621,685 ratings — published 1995
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.14 — 244,814 ratings — published 1886
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,000,002 ratings — published 2001
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.01 — 105,901 ratings — published 1992
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.93 — 275,956 ratings — published 1948
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
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“Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.”
― Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
they are vexations to the spirit.”
― Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life












