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Philosophical Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 465 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,416,302 ratings — published 1942
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 427 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,593,197 ratings — published 1988
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.08 — 881,966 ratings — published 1922
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,442,822 ratings — published 1915
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,090,591 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,895,127 ratings — published 1890
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,495,462 ratings — published 1943
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.11 — 547,213 ratings — published 1984
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 283,647 ratings — published 1991
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.28 — 353,224 ratings — published 180
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.37 — 885,819 ratings — published 1946
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,503,593 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,586,338 ratings — published 1945
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 152 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,486,359 ratings — published 2020
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.39 — 389,795 ratings — published 1880
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,087,324 ratings — published 1932
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,758,097 ratings — published 2001
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.17 — 232,954 ratings — published 1864
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.07 — 177,532 ratings — published 1883
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.02 — 317,136 ratings — published 1947
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 226,945 ratings — published -400
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.78 — 246,140 ratings — published 1974
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,209,850 ratings — published 1997
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.76 — 302,763 ratings — published 1759
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.03 — 114,933 ratings — published 1886
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.29 — 183,255 ratings — published -350
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.93 — 140,488 ratings — published 1938
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.84 — 384,724 ratings — published 1532
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.94 — 398,613 ratings — published 1925
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.89 — 337,926 ratings — published 1943
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.17 — 96,022 ratings — published 1942
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.69 — 407,663 ratings — published 1957
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.94 — 574,957 ratings — published -500
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.23 — 330,335 ratings — published 1923
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,906,974 ratings — published 1818
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 84 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.03 — 136,717 ratings — published 1956
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.01 — 807,454 ratings — published 2003
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.18 — 645,712 ratings — published 1996
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,214,621 ratings — published 1954
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,857,693 ratings — published 1953
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,820,673 ratings — published 1993
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.13 — 216,842 ratings — published 1927
Demian (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.14 — 136,606 ratings — published 1919
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.10 — 992,621 ratings — published 2001
The Tao of Pooh (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.01 — 130,930 ratings — published 1982
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.21 — 187,812 ratings — published 2021
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.01 — 104,705 ratings — published 1992
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.14 — 227,327 ratings — published 1886
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as philosophical)
avg rating 4.21 — 219,227 ratings — published 1869
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as philosophical)
avg rating 3.68 — 199,661 ratings — published 1848
“Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
