345 books
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645 voters
Philosophical Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 488 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,456,787 ratings — published 1942
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 441 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,655,730 ratings — published 1988
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.08 — 894,524 ratings — published 1922
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,482,366 ratings — published 1915
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,116,398 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,936,105 ratings — published 1890
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,537,051 ratings — published 1943
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.10 — 555,298 ratings — published 1984
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.37 — 906,819 ratings — published 1946
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 286,716 ratings — published 1991
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.28 — 364,536 ratings — published 180
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,605,003 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,670,985 ratings — published 1945
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 151 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,554,532 ratings — published 2020
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.39 — 399,842 ratings — published 1880
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,112,845 ratings — published 1932
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.16 — 242,919 ratings — published 1864
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,769,367 ratings — published 2001
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.07 — 180,260 ratings — published 1883
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 229,377 ratings — published -400
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.02 — 322,911 ratings — published 1947
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.76 — 305,797 ratings — published 1759
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 — 1,232,901 ratings — published 1997
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.78 — 247,920 ratings — published 1974
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.03 — 116,963 ratings — published 1886
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.29 — 185,349 ratings — published -350
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.93 — 142,946 ratings — published 1938
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.94 — 407,633 ratings — published 1925
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.16 — 100,767 ratings — published 1942
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.84 — 390,035 ratings — published 1532
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.89 — 339,409 ratings — published 1943
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.69 — 409,528 ratings — published 1957
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.94 — 583,991 ratings — published -500
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 88 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.03 — 140,113 ratings — published 1956
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.23 — 333,563 ratings — published 1923
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,948,263 ratings — published 1818
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.02 — 818,070 ratings — published 2003
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.18 — 653,092 ratings — published 1996
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,252,423 ratings — published 1954
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,909,083 ratings — published 1953
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,852,064 ratings — published 1993
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.13 — 220,516 ratings — published 1927
The Tao of Pooh (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.01 — 132,075 ratings — published 1982
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.21 — 196,953 ratings — published 2021
Demian (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,528 ratings — published 1919
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.14 — 237,143 ratings — published 1886
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.10 — 997,263 ratings — published 2001
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.01 — 105,478 ratings — published 1992
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.06 — 580,134 ratings — published 1995
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.69 — 203,686 ratings — published 1848
“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― In the Forest
― In the Forest
“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.
- p. 47, The Brothers Silver”
― The Brothers Silver
- p. 47, The Brothers Silver”
― The Brothers Silver












