Philosophy

Foundational works of human thought — ethics, logic, metaphysics, and wisdom.

Sesame and LiliesJohn Ruskin

★3.7

EssaysFiction

How to be a manHarvey Newcomb

★3.8

Humor & SatirePhilosophy

Essays — First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson

★4.2

EssaysFiction

Conversations on the Plurality of WorldsM. de Fontenelle

★3.5

FictionPhilosophy

A Guide to StoicismSt. George William Joseph Stock

★3.3

FictionHistory

A Contribution to the Critique of Political EconomyKarl Marx

★4.0

FictionPhilosophy

Notes on democracyH. L. Mencken

★4.1

EssaysHistory

Wild ApplesHenry David Thoreau

★3.7

EssaysFiction

Free Thought and Official PropagandaBertrand Russell

★4.3

EssaysFiction

The Flight of the EagleAlfred Coppel

★4.0

PhilosophyPolitical Science

Toleration and other essaysVoltaire

★3.9

EssaysFiction

Canoeing in the wildernessHenry David Thoreau

★3.7

AdventureEssays

The ApologyXenophon

★3.9

HistoryPhilosophy

What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscowgraf Leo Tolstoy

★3.8

FictionHistory

What Shall We Do?graf Leo Tolstoy

★3.8

FictionHistory

EssaysDavid Hume

★4.0

EssaysFiction

Mistakes of MosesRobert Green Ingersoll

★4.4

FictionHistory

On prayer and the contemplative lifeAquinas Thomas

★4.0

FictionPhilosophy

The Catholic Church and conversionG. K. Chesterton

★4.2

FictionReligion

The Kitáb-i-ÍqánBahá'u'lláh

★4.6

PhilosophyReligion

Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsImmanuel Kant

★4.0

FictionPhilosophy

Table Talk: Essays on Men and MannersWilliam Hazlitt

★3.9

EssaysFiction

Marriage and LoveEmma Goldman

★4.0

EssaysPhilosophy

Hegel's Philosophy of MindGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

★3.9

PhilosophyPsychology