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The most-recommended philosophy titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.
Finite and Infinite Games
James P. Carse · 1987
18 recommenders
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter · 1999
17 recommenders
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
Thomas S. Kuhn · 1996
16 recommenders
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch · 2011
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
William B. Irvine · 2009
15 recommenders
The Bhagavad Gita
Eknath Easwaran · 2003
11 recommenders
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus
Steven Strogatz · 2019
10 recommenders
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice (Shambhala Library)
Shunryu Suzuki · 1970
9 recommenders
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
Toby Ord · 2020
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder · 2017
8 recommenders
How Not to Be Wrong
Jordan Ellenberg · 2014
Beyond Good And Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche · 2003
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith · 2006
7 recommenders
The Gay Science
Friedrich Nietzsche · 1974
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
M. Mitchell Waldrop · 1992
6 recommenders
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant · 1999
Reasons and Persons
Derek Parfit · 1986
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein · 2001
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Friedrich Nietzsche · 2010
5 recommenders
The Muqaddimah
Ibn Ibn Khaldûn · 2015
The Enchiridion
Epictetus · 2017
Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes · 1993
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Brian Christian · 2020
The Ascent of Man
n by Jacob Bronowski · 2011
The World as Will and Representation
Arthur Schopenhauer · 1966
The Shallows
Nicholas Carr · 2011
Dialogues and Natural History of Religion
David Hume · 1993
The Moral Landscape
Sam Harris · 2010
4 recommenders
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway · 2010
A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition (Belknap)
John Rawls · 2005
Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne · 1993
The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
Samuel Arbesman · 2012
The Sleepwalkers
Arthur Koestler · 1990
Mortal Questions
Thomas Nagel · 1991
Consciousness Explained
Daniel C. Dennett · 1991
A Mathematician's Apology
G. H. Hardy · 1992
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Martin Hägglund · 2019
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Ben Goldacre · 2014
The Discourses of Epictetus
Epictetus · 1800
Philosophy as a Way of Life
Pierre Hadot · 1995
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Michio Kaku · 2011
The Art of Happiness
Epicurus · 2012
Phenomenology of Spirit
A. V. Miller & G. W. F. Hegel · 1977
The Language Instinct
Steven Pinker · 2007
Cynical Theories
Helen Pluckrose · 2020
Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
Stuart Ritchie · 2020
Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
Mengzi · 2008
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Daniel C. Dennett · 1996
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens · 2007
3 recommenders
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume · 1998
On the Genealogy of Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche, introduction and notes by Maudemarie Clark & Alan Swensen · 1998
The Clock of the Long Now
Stewart Brand · 2000
The Outsider
Colin Wilson · 2001
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality
Per Bak · 1996
Hacking Darwin
Jamie Metzl · 2019
Phantoms in the Brain
V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee · 1999
Out of Your Mind
Alan Watts · 2004
A History of Western Philosophy (English)(Hardcover)
Bertrand Russell · 1986
The Ancestor’s Tale
Richard Dawkins · 2005
Our Mathematical Universe
Max Tegmark · 2015
In Praise of Shadows
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki · 1980
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Steven Novella · 2018
Striking Thoughts
Bruce Lee · 2002
Technopoly
Neil Postman · 1993
From Bacteria to Bach and Back
Daniel C. Dennett · 2018
Art of Living
Epictetus · 2004
The Watchman's Rattle
Rebecca D. Costa · 2010
One Blade of Grass
Henry Shukman · 2019
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus · 1955
Critical Mass
Philip Ball · 2006
Feminist Theory
Bell Hooks · 1984
The Wisdom of Life
Arthur Schopenhauer · 2004
The Upanishads
Eknath Easwaran · 1965
The Way of Life, According to Laotzu
Witter Bynner · 1986
The Model Thinker
Scott E. Page · 2018
Design as Art
Bruno Munari · 2008
Escape From Evil
Ernest Becker · 1985
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl R. Popper · 2002
I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter · 2007
Practical Ethics
Peter Singer · 1999
The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle
Myisha Cherry · 2021
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib · 2022
The Planet Remade
Oliver Morton · 2020
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
David Edmonds · 2020
The Grasshopper
Bernard Suits · 2005
Feminism is for Everybody
bell hooks · 2000
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
William MacAskill · 2015
Deschooling Society
Ivan Illich · 2000
Conjectures and Refutations
Karl Popper · 2002
The Dhammapada
Eknath Easwaran · 2001
Fallen Leaves
Will Durant · 2014
The Search for Common Ground
Howard Thurman · 1986
2 recommenders
The Foundations of Arithmetic
Gottlob Frege · 1980
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke · 1757
Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach
Karl Popper · 1979
Courage Is Calling
Ryan Holiday · 2021
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Chogyam Trungpa · 2002
Black Holes and Time Warps
Kip Thorne · 1994
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1993
How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy
Daniel Kaufman, Massimo Pigliucci & Skye C Cleary · 2020
