Philosophy

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

The Theory of Social RevolutionsBrooks Adams

★3.4

PhilosophyPolitical Science

The nature of manElie Metchnikoff

★4.2

PhilosophyReligion

American Institutions and Their InfluenceAlexis de Tocqueville

★4.2

FictionHistory

Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily DeathF. W. H. Myers

★3.8

Horror & GothicPhilosophy

The place of anarchism in socialistic evolutionkniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

★3.6

EssaysPhilosophy

Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of ManOscar Wilde

★4.1

FictionPhilosophy

Education and the good lifeBertrand Russell

★3.9

FictionPhilosophy

English TraitsRalph Waldo Emerson

★3.9

BiographyEssays

Resist not evilClarence Darrow

★4.3

Mystery & DetectivePhilosophy

The cynic's breviary: Maxims and anecdotes from Nicolas de ChamfortSébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort

★4.1

EssaysPhilosophy

A Vindication of Natural Diet.Percy Bysshe Shelley

★3.8

EssaysPhilosophy

An Essay Towards a New Theory of VisionGeorge Berkeley

★3.5

Philosophy

The Philosophy of DespairDavid Starr Jordan

★3.4

PhilosophyFiction

Watch and Wait; or, The Young FugitivesOliver Optic

★4.5

Philosophy

A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on ShakespeareGeorge MacDonald

★4.4

PhilosophyReligion

A Tract on Monetary ReformJohn Maynard Keynes

★4.0

FictionHistory

Lives of the NecromancersWilliam Godwin

★3.8

FictionHistory

On the Significance of Science and Artgraf Leo Tolstoy

★3.4

FictionPhilosophy

Psyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the GreeksErwin Rohde

★4.4

HistoryPhilosophy

Philosophy of OsteopathyA. T. Still

★4.0

Philosophy

The Mind and the Brain / Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le CorpsAlfred Binet

★3.7

Science & NatureFiction

The Story of the MindJames Mark Baldwin

★3.3

FictionPhilosophy

Cobwebs from an Empty SkullAmbrose Bierce

★4.0

FictionHumor & Satire

Christianity and IslamCarl Heinrich Becker

★3.5

PhilosophyReligion