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Philosophy

  • Fragments of Anaxagoras — Anaxagoras
  • Summa Contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas — Thomas Aquinas
  • The Complete Works of Aristotle — Aristotle
  • City of God by Augustine — Augustine of Hippo
  • Confessions by Augustine — Augustine of Hippo
  • The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius — Marcus Aurelius
  • The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius — Boethius
  • The Dhammapada by Buddha — Buddha (traditionally attributed)
  • The Vagrakkhedikâ Or Diamond-Cutter by Buddha — Buddha (traditionally attributed)
  • Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero — Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • On Moral Duties (De Officiis) by Marcus Tullius Cicero — Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Discourses by Epictetus — Epictetus
  • The Enchiridion, or Manual by Epictetus — Epictetus
  • Letter to Menoeceus by Epicurus — Epicurus
  • Principal Doctrines by Epicurus — Epicurus
  • In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus — Desiderius Erasmus
  • Fragments of Heraclitus — Heraclitus
  • On Aristotle’s Categories by Ammonius Hermiae — Ammonius
  • On First Philosophy by Al-Kindi — Al-Kindi
  • Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu — Lao Tzu
  • Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Michel de Montaigne
  • Fragments and Commentary of Parmenides — Parmenides
  • The Complete Works of Philo of Alexandria — Philo of Alexandria
  • The Complete Works of Plato — Plato
  • Enneads by Plotinus — Plotinus
  • The Morals of Plutarch — Plutarch
  • The Presocratic Philosophers by G.S. Kirk & J.E. Raven — G.S. Kirk & J.E. Raven
  • Fragments and Commentary by Pythagoras — Pythagoras
  • Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca — Seneca
  • On the Shortness of Life & On the Happy Life by Lucius Annaeus Seneca — Seneca
  • Fragments and Commentary of Thales of Miletus — Thales
  • On Moral Characters by Theophrastus — Theophrastus
  • Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley — George Berkeley
  • A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley — George Berkeley
  • The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Volume I — Auguste Comte
  • The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Volume II — Auguste Comte
  • The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Volume III — Auguste Comte
  • Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking for Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes — René Descartes
  • Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes — René Descartes
  • Democracy and Education by John Dewey — John Dewey
  • D’Alembert’s Dream by Denis Diderot — Denis Diderot
  • The Paradox of Acting by Denis Diderot — Denis Diderot
  • Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot — Denis Diderot
  • Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein — Albert Einstein
  • Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The Vocation of Man by Johann Gottlieb Fichte — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • The Science of Knowledge by Johann Gottlieb Fichte — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • On Sense and Reference by Gottlob Frege — Gottlob Frege
  • The Thought: A Logical Inquiry by Gottlob Frege — Gottlob Frege
  • The Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel — G. W. F. Hegel
  • The Philosophy Of History (Introduction) by G. W. F. Hegel — G. W. F. Hegel
  • Philosophy Of Mind: Part Three of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences by G.W.F. Hegel — G. W. F. Hegel
  • Being and Time by Martin Heidegger — Martin Heidegger
  • The Question Concerning Technology & Other Essays by Martin Heidegger — Martin Heidegger
  • What is Metaphysics? by Martin Heidegger — Martin Heidegger
  • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume — David Hume
  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume — David Hume
  • An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume — David Hume
  • A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume — David Hume
  • Evolution and Ethics by T.H. Huxley — Thomas H. Huxley
  • Practical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant — Immanuel Kant
  • The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant — Immanuel Kant
  • The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant — Immanuel Kant
  • The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant — Immanuel Kant
  • Introduction to the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant — Immanuel Kant
  • Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant — Immanuel Kant
  • Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant — Immanuel Kant
  • Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard — Søren Kierkegaard
  • The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard — Søren Kierkegaard
  • Philosophical Fragments by Søren Kierkegaard — Søren Kierkegaard
  • Works of Love by Søren Kierkegaard — Søren Kierkegaard
  • Monadology by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • Philosophical Essays of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — G. W. Leibniz
  • An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke — John Locke
  • Jerusalem: Religious Power and Judaism by Moses Mendelssohn — Moses Mendelssohn
  • Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill — John Stuart Mill
  • Principia Ethica by G.E. Moore — G.E. Moore
  • On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The Portable Nietzsche edited by Walter Kaufmann — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine — Thomas Paine
  • Pensées by Blaise Pascal — Blaise Pascal
  • The Fixation of Belief by Charles Sanders Peirce — Charles Sanders Peirce
  • How to Make Our Ideas Clear by Charles Sanders Peirce — Charles Sanders Peirce
  • The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Ressentiment by Max Scheler — Max Scheler
  • First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature by Friedrich Schelling — F. W. J. Schelling
  • The World as Will and Representation – Vol. 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer — Arthur Schopenhauer
  • The World as Will and Representation – Vol. 2 by Arthur Schopenhauer — Arthur Schopenhauer
  • The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer — Arthur Schopenhauer
  • The Collected Philosophical Papers of G.E.M. Anscombe, Volume I — G. E. M. Anscombe
  • The Collected Philosophical Papers of G.E.M. Anscombe, Volume II — G. E. M. Anscombe
  • The Collected Philosophical Papers of G.E.M. Anscombe, Volume III — G. E. M. Anscombe
  • Intention by G.E.M. Anscombe — G. E. M. Anscombe
  • The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt — Hannah Arendt
  • Language, Truth, and Logic by A.J. Ayer — A. J. Ayer
  • The Problem of Knowledge by A.J. Ayer — A.J. Ayer
  • Selected Writings of Jean Baudrillard — Jean Baudrillard
  • The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir — Simone de Beauvoir
  • The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin — Walter Benjamin
  • An Introduction to Metaphysics by Henri Bergson — Henri Bergson
  • Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson — Henri Bergson
  • Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson — Henri Bergson
  • I and Thou by Martin Buber — Martin Buber
  • The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus — Albert Camus
  • The Rebel by Albert Camus — Albert Camus
  • Logical Foundations of Probability by Rudolf Carnap — Rudolf Carnap
  • The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume I: Language by Ernst Cassirer — Ernst Cassirer
  • The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume II: Mythical Thought by Ernst Cassirer — Ernst Cassirer
  • Five Arguments for God by William Lane Craig — William Lane Craig
  • Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig — William Lane Craig
  • Nietzsche and Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze — Gilles Deleuze
  • What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari — Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
  • Speech and Phenomena & Other Essays by Jacques Derrida — Jacques Derrida
  • Dissemination by Jacques Derrida — Jacques Derrida
  • Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida — Jacques Derrida
  • Against Method by Paul Feyerabend — Paul Feyerabend
  • The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault — Michel Foucault
  • Selected Writings of Mahatma Gandhi — Mahatma Gandhi
  • Being and Some Philosophers by Étienne Gilson — Étienne Gilson
  • The Condition of Postmodernity by David Harvey — David Harvey
  • Logical Investigations by Edmund Husserl — Edmund Husserl
  • Does Consciousness Exist? by William James — William James
  • What Pragmatism Means by William James — William James
  • The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James — William James
  • The Will to Believe by William James — William James
  • Reason and Existenz by Karl Jaspers — Karl Jaspers
  • Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi — Giacomo Leopardi
  • The Levinas Reader edited by Sáun Hand — Emmanuel Levinas
  • After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre — Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Being and Having by Gabriel Marcel — Gabriel Marcel
  • Homo Viator: Introduction to a Metaphysic of Hope by Gabriel Marcel — Gabriel Marcel
  • The Mystery of Being, Volume I: Reflection & Mystery by Gabriel Marcel — Gabriel Marcel
  • Eros and Civilization: Part 1 by Herbert Marcuse — Herbert Marcuse
  • Eros and Civilization: Part 2 by Herbert Marcuse — Herbert Marcuse
  • One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse — Herbert Marcuse
  • The Limits of Objectivity: The Tanner Lecture on Human Values by Thomas Nagel — Thomas Nagel
  • What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Thomas Nagel — Thomas Nagel
  • Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview by Nishida Kitaro — Kitarō Nishida
  • The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism by Keiji Nishitani — Keiji Nishitani
  • Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick — Robert Nozick
  • Man Has No Nature by José Ortega y Gasset (Excerpt) — José Ortega y Gasset
  • Word and Object by W.V. Quine — W.V. Quine
  • The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand — Ayn Rand
  • Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty — Richard Rorty
  • Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty — Richard Rorty
  • In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell — Bertrand Russell
  • Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell — Bertrand Russell
  • On Denoting by Bertrand Russell — Bertrand Russell
  • The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell — Bertrand Russell
  • The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle — Gilbert Ryle
  • Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre — Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Critique of Dialectical Reason: Volume I by Jean-Paul Sartre — Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Critique of Dialectical Reason: Volume II (Unfinished) by Jean-Paul Sartre — Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre — Jean-Paul Sartre
  • My View of the World (Excerpt) by Erwin Schrödinger — Erwin Schrödinger
  • The Construction of Social Reality by John Searle — John Searle
  • Expression and Meaning by John Searle — John Searle
  • All Things are Possible by Lev Shestov — Lev Shestov
  • Athens and Jerusalem by Lev Shestov — Lev Shestov
  • The Coherence of Theism by Richard Swinburne — Richard Swinburne
  • The Existence of God by Richard Swinburne — Richard Swinburne
  • The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner — Max Stirner
  • The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich — Paul Tillich
  • The Eternal Now by Paul Tillich — Paul Tillich
  • The Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno — Miguel de Unamuno
  • Weak Thought edited by Gianni Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti — Gianni Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti
  • Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil — Simone Weil
  • Waiting for God by Simone Weil — Simone Weil
  • Simone Weil: An Anthology — Simone Weil
  • Simone Weil: Lectures on Philosophy — Simone Weil
  • Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead — Alfred North Whitehead
  • Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein — Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Science

  • Treatise on Conic Sections by Apollonius of Perga — Apollonius of Perga
  • Physics by Aristotle — Aristotle
  • The Essays of Francis Bacon — Francis Bacon
  • The New Organon by Francis Bacon — Francis Bacon
  • The Grounds for and Excellence of the Corpuscular or Mechanical Philosophy by Robert Boyle — Robert Boyle
  • Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers by Georg Cantor — Georg Cantor
  • On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Dedication) by Nicolaus Copernicus — Nicolaus Copernicus
  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin — Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  • Essays on the Theory of Numbers by Richard Dedekind — Richard Dedekind
  • The Geometry of René Descartes — René Descartes
  • The Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Paul Dirac — P. A. M. Dirac
  • Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein — Albert Einstein
  • Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday — Michael Faraday
  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics — Richard P. Feynman
  • The Meaning of It All by Richard P. Feynman — Richard Feynman
  • The Foundation of Arithmetic by Gottlob Frege — Gottlob Frege
  • The Assayer by Galileo Galilei — Galileo Galilei
  • Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei — Galileo Galilei
  • Starry Messenger by Galileo Galilei — Galileo Galilei
  • Kurt Gödel: Collected Works – Volume I — Kurt Gödel
  • Kurt Gödel: Collected Works – Volume II — Kurt Gödel
  • Kurt Gödel: Collected Works – Volume III — Kurt Gödel
  • Kurt Gödel: Collected Works – Volume IV — Kurt Gödel
  • Kurt Gödel: Collected Works – Volume V — Kurt Gödel
  • The Metamorphosis of Plants by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking — Stephen Hawking
  • Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science by Werner Heisenberg — Werner Heisenberg
  • Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens — Christiaan Huygens
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn — Thomas S. Kuhn
  • The Copernican Revolution by Thomas Kuhn — Thomas Kuhn
  • A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (Volume I) by James Clerk Maxwell — James Clerk Maxwell
  • A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (Volume II) by James Clerk Maxwell — James Clerk Maxwell
  • The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton — Sir Isaac Newton
  • Timaeus by Plato — Plato
  • Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincaré — Henri Poincaré
  • Conjectures & Refutations by Karl Popper — Karl Popper
  • The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper — Karl Popper
  • The Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy — Claudius Ptolemy
  • Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell — Bertrand Russell
  • What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger — Erwin Schrödinger
  • Mind and Matter by Erwin Schrödinger — Erwin Schrödinger
  • The Mathematical Theory of Communication by C.E. Shannon and Warren Weaver — Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver
  • The Physics of The Healing by Ibn Sina (Avicenna) — Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
  • Principia Mathematica: Volume I by Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell — Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell
  • Principia Mathematica: Volume II by Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell — Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell
  • Principia Mathematica: Volume III by Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell — Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell

Psychology

  • The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker — Ernest Becker
  • The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon — Frantz Fanon
  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl — Viktor E. Frankl
  • The Complete Works of Sigmund Freud — Sigmund Freud
  • Principles of Behavior by Clark L. Hull — Clark L. Hull
  • The Principles of Psychology: Volume I by William James — William James
  • The Principles of Psychology: Volume II by William James — William James
  • Man and his Symbols by Carl Jung — Carl Gustav Jung
  • Memories, Dreams, Reflection by Carl Jung — Carl Gustav Jung
  • Écrits by Jacques Lacan — Jacques Lacan
  • The Divided Self by R.D. Laing — R. D. Laing
  • Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences by Abraham Maslow — Abraham H. Maslow
  • Freedom and Destiny by Rollo May — Rollo May
  • The Origins & Significance of the Existential Movement in Psychology by Rollo May — Rollo May
  • Cognitive Psychology by Ulric Neisser — Ulric Neisser
  • Conditioned Reflexes by Ivan Pavlov — Ivan Pavlov
  • The Origins of Intelligence in Children by Jean Piaget — Jean Piaget
  • Verbal Behavior by B.F. Skinner — B. F. Skinner
  • The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz — Thomas S. Szasz

Religious

  • The Avesta of Zoroaster — Zoroastrian scriptures
  • A Study of Dogen by Masao Abe — Masao Abe
  • The Proslogion of St. Anselm of Canterbury — Anselm of Canterbury
  • On Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilo & Reply to Gaunilo by St. Anselm of Canterbury — Anselm of Canterbury
  • The Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas — Thomas Aquinas
  • The New Oxford Annotated Study Bible (NRSV, 5th Edition) — edited by Michael D. Coogan
  • The New Oxford Annotated Study Bible with Apocrypha (NRSV, 4th Edition) — edited by Michael D. Coogan
  • The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • The Teaching of Buddha — Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai
  • Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (as collected by Muhammad al-Bukhari) — Muhammad al-Bukhari
  • Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin — John Calvin
  • The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton — G. K. Chesterton
  • Heretics by G.K. Chesterton — G. K. Chesterton
  • Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton — G. K. Chesterton
  • The Analects of Confucius — Confucius
  • The Vedas compiled by the Dharmic Scriptures Team — Dharmic Scriptures Team
  • On Divine Names & Mystical Theology by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite — Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
  • The Shobogenzo: Volume I by Eihei Dogen — Dōgen
  • The Shobogenzo: Volume II by Eihei Dogen — Dōgen
  • The Shobogenzo: Volume III by Eihei Dogen — Dōgen
  • The Shobogenzo: Volume IV by Eihei Dogen — Dōgen
  • The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart — Meister Eckhart
  • The Book of Enoch — Modern English translation prepared by Andy McCracken
  • Ecclesiastical History by Eusebius of Caesarea — Eusebius of Caesarea
  • The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach — Ludwig Feuerbach
  • Christian Apologetics by Norman Geisler — Norman Geisler
  • Philosophy of Religion by Norman Geisler — Norman Geisler
  • Deliverance from Error by Al-Ghazali — Al-Ghazali
  • The Incoherence of the Philosophers by Al-Ghazali — Al-Ghazali
  • Futuh al-Ghaib (The Revelations of the Unseen) by Abdul Qadir Gilani — Abdul Qadir Gilani
  • A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutiérrez — Gustavo Gutiérrez
  • The Divine Relativity: A Social Conception of God by Charles Hartshorne — Charles Hartshorne
  • The Principia Discordia by Greg Hill and Kerry Wendell Thornley — Malaclypse the Younger and Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst
  • The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley — Aldous Huxley
  • The I Ching (Book of Changes) — Anonymous
  • Attack Upon Christendom by Søren Kierkegaard — Søren Kierkegaard
  • The Reasonableness of Christianity by John Locke — John Locke
  • The 95 Theses by Martin Luther — Martin Luther
  • The Sermons of Martin Luther (Vol. 1) — Martin Luther
  • The Sermons of Martin Luther (Vol. 2) — Martin Luther
  • The Sermons of Martin Luther (Vol. 3) — Martin Luther
  • The Sermons of Martin Luther (Vol. 4) — Martin Luther
  • The Sermons of Martin Luther (Vol. 5) — Martin Luther
  • The Sermons of Martin Luther (Vol. 6) — Martin Luther
  • The Sermons of Martin Luther (Vol. 7) — Martin Luther
  • The Sermons of Martin Luther (Vol. 8) — Martin Luther
  • The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides — Moses Maimonides
  • Sahih Muslim, as collected by Imam Muslim — Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
  • The Mulamadhyamakakarika of Nagarjuna — Nāgārjuna
  • On Buddhism by Keiji Nishitani — Keiji Nishitani
  • The Upanishads translated by Swami Paramananda — Swami Paramananda
  • God and Other Minds by Alvin Plantinga — Alvin Plantinga
  • Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga — Alvin Plantinga
  • The Noble Qur’an — Muslims believe that the Quran
  • Eastern Religions & Western Thought by S. Radhakrishnan — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  • On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy by Ibn Rushd (Averroes) — Averroes
  • The Incoherence of the Incoherence by Ibn Rushd (Averroes) — Averroes (Ibn Rushd)
  • On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers by Friedrich Schleiermacher — Friedrich Schleiermacher
  • The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer — Albert Schweitzer
  • The World’s Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith — Huston Smith
  • Forgotten Truth by Huston Smith — Huston Smith
  • Ethics by Baruch Spinoza — Baruch Spinoza
  • On the Improvement of Understanding by Baruch Spinoza — Baruch Spinoza
  • Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza — Benedict de Spinoza
  • The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined by David Friedrich Strauss — Author unverified
  • An Introduction to Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki — D. T. Suzuki
  • The Bhagavad Gita translated by Shri Purohit Swami — Vyasa (traditionally attributed)
  • The Babylonian Talmud — Translated by Michael L. Rodkinson
  • The Tanakh — Jewish Publication Society of America
  • The Gospel of Thomas — Anonymous
  • The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich — Paul Tillich
  • The New Being by Paul Tillich — Paul Tillich
  • Christianity as Old as Creation by Matthew Tindal — Matthew Tindal
  • The Way of Zen by Alan Watts — Alan Watts
  • The Zohar — Michael Laitman

Political & Cultural

  • On the Reproduction of Capitalism by Louis Althusser — Louis Althusser
  • The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt — Hannah Arendt
  • The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt — Hannah Arendt
  • Politics by Aristotle — Aristotle
  • The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir — Simone de Beauvoir
  • An Introduction to The Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham — Jeremy Bentham
  • Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin — Murray Bookchin
  • Social Ecology and Communalism by Murray Bookchin — Murray Bookchin
  • A Vindication of Natural Society by Edmund Burke — Edmund Burke
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke — Edmund Burke
  • On War by Carl von Clausewitz — Carl von Clausewitz
  • The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord — Guy Debord
  • Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari — Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
  • Philosophy and Civilization by John Dewey — John Dewey
  • Encyclopedic Liberty: Political Articles in the Dictionary of Diderot and D’Alembert — Jean le Rond d’Alembert
  • The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois — W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault — Michel Foucault
  • The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault — Michel Foucault
  • Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault — Michel Foucault
  • The Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm — Erich Fromm
  • The Sane Society by Erich Fromm — Erich Fromm
  • The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama — Francis Fukuyama
  • The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman — Erving Goffman
  • Selections from the Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci — Antonio Gramsci
  • The Theory of Communicative Action by Jürgen Habermas — Jürgen Habermas
  • Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky — Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
  • Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes — Thomas Hobbes
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno — Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
  • The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson — Chalmers Johnson
  • The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes — John Maynard Keynes
  • Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. — Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Philosophical Notebooks of V.I. Lenin — Vladimir Lenin
  • Structural Anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss — Claude Lévi-Strauss
  • The Savage Mind by Claude Lévi-Strauss — Claude Lévi-Strauss
  • The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke — John Locke
  • The Postmodern Condition by Jean-François Lyotard — Jean-François Lyotard
  • The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli — Niccolò Machiavelli
  • An Essay on Liberation by Herbert Marcuse — Herbert Marcuse
  • Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume I by Karl Marx — Karl Marx
  • Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume II by Karl Marx — Karl Marx
  • Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume III by Karl Marx — Karl Marx
  • The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx — Karl Marx
  • The German Ideology by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • On Liberty by John Stuart Mill — John Stuart Mill
  • On Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill — John Stuart Mill
  • The Racial Contract by Charles Mills — Charles W. Mills
  • Areopagitica by John Milton — John Milton
  • The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu — Montesquieu
  • Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick — Robert Nozick
  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty — Thomas Piketty
  • Laws by Plato — Plato
  • The Republic by Plato — Plato
  • Statesman by Plato — Plato
  • The Open Society and Its Enemies: Vol. I by Karl Popper — Karl Popper
  • The Open Society and Its Enemies: Vol. II by Karl Popper — Karl Popper
  • A Theory of Justice by John Rawls — John Rawls
  • Émile, or Concerning Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • The Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Free Thought & Official Propaganda by Bertrand Russell — Bertrand Russell
  • The Principles of Social Reconstruction by Bertrand Russell — Bertrand Russell
  • Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate by Jean-Paul Sartre — Jean-Paul Sartre
  • The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt — Carl Schmitt
  • The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith — Adam Smith
  • Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss — Leo Strauss
  • Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau — Henry David Thoreau
  • Writings of Leon Trotsky — Leon Trotsky
  • The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen — Thorstein Veblen
  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber — Max Weber
  • The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind by Simone Weil — Simone Weil
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft — Mary Wollstonecraft

Literature

  • The Tragedies of Aeschylus — Edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore
  • The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri — Dante Alighieri
  • The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou — Maya Angelou
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou — Maya Angelou
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen — Jane Austen
  • The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings of James Baldwin — James Baldwin
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury — Ray Bradbury
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë — Emily Brontë
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess — Anthony Burgess
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll — Lewis Carroll
  • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes — Miguel de Cervantes
  • The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer — Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad — Joseph Conrad
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick — Philip K. Dick
  • The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick — Philip K. Dick
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens — Charles Dickens
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens — Charles Dickens
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave — Frederick Douglass
  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison — Ralph Ellison
  • Euripides: Ion, Hippolytus, Medea, & Alcestis — Euripides
  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner — William Faulkner
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald — F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding — William Golding
  • Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley — Alex Haley
  • Mythology by Edith Hamilton — Edith Hamilton
  • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway — Ernest Hemingway
  • Siddhartha: An Indian Tale by Hermann Hesse — Hermann Hesse
  • Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse — Hermann Hesse
  • The Iliad of Homer — Homer
  • The Odyssey of Homer — Homer
  • Poetry of Langston Hughes — Langston Hughes
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston — Zora Neale Hurston
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley — Aldous Huxley
  • Ulysses by James Joyce — James Joyce
  • The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka — Franz Kafka
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee — Harper Lee
  • The Canti by Giacomo Leopardi — Giacomo Leopardi
  • Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham — W. Somerset Maugham
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville — Herman Melville
  • Paradise Lost by John Milton — John Milton
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison — Toni Morrison
  • 1984 by George Orwell — George Orwell
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell — George Orwell
  • In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust — Marcel Proust
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand — Ayn Rand
  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand — Ayn Rand
  • Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke — Rainer Maria Rilke
  • The Notes of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke — Rainer Maria Rilke
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger — J. D. Salinger
  • No Exit & Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre — Jean-Paul Sartre
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare — William Shakespeare
  • The Tragedies of Sophocles — Sophocles
  • Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift — Jonathan Swift
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau — Henry David Thoreau
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy — Leo Tolstoy
  • Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev — Ivan Turgenev
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain — Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain — Mark Twain
  • The Aeneid of Virgil — Virgil
  • Candide by Voltaire — Voltaire
  • Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut — Kurt Vonnegut
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut — Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker — Alice Walker
  • The Time Machine by H.G. Wells — H. G. Wells
  • Native Son by Richard Wright — Richard Wright

Historical

  • The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography — Henry Adams
  • International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond by Antony Best, et al. — Antony Best, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Joseph A. Maiolo, and Kirsten E. Schulze
  • Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers — Robert Chambers
  • A History of Philosophy: Volume I – Greece & Rome by Frederick Copleston — Frederick Copleston
  • A History of Philosophy: Volume II – Augustine to Scotus by Frederick Copleston — Frederick Copleston
  • A History of Philosophy: Volume III – Ockham to Suarez by Frederick Copleston — Frederick Copleston
  • A History of Philosophy: Volume IV – Descartes to Leibniz by Frederick Copleston — Frederick Copleston
  • A History of Philosophy: Volume V – Hobbes to Hume by Frederick Copleston — Frederick Copleston
  • A History of Philosophy: Volume VI – Wolff to Kant by Frederick Copleston — Frederick Copleston
  • A History of Philosophy: Volume VII – Fichte to Nietzsche by Frederick Copleston — Frederick Copleston
  • A History of Philosophy: Volume VIII – Bentham to Russell by Frederick Copleston — Frederick Copleston
  • A History of Philosophy: Volume IX – Maine de Biran to Sartre by Frederick Copleston — Frederick Copleston
  • A History of Philosophy: Volume X – Herzen to Lenin & Berdyaev by Frederick Copleston — Frederick Copleston
  • United States History by P. Scott Corbett, et al. — OpenStax
  • History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper — John William Draper
  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank — Anne Frank
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume I by Edward Gibbon — Edward Gibbon
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume II by Edward Gibbon — Edward Gibbon
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume III by Edward Gibbon — Edward Gibbon
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume IV by Edward Gibbon — Edward Gibbon
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume V by Edward Gibbon — Edward Gibbon
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume VI by Edward Gibbon — Edward Gibbon
  • A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich — E. H. Gombrich
  • A History of the World: From the 20th to the 21st Century by J.A.S. Grenville — J. A. S. Grenville
  • The Histories of Herodotus — Herodotus
  • Hiroshima by John Hersey — John Hersey and other contributors
  • A History of Christianity by Paul Johnson — Paul Johnson
  • The Complete Works of Josephus — Flavius Josephus
  • The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy — Paul Kennedy
  • I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr. — Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius — Diogenes Laertius
  • The History of Rome by Titus Livius — Livy
  • An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus — Thomas Robert Malthus
  • The Life and Times of Martin Luther by W. Carlos Martyn — Title and author unverified
  • A Comprehensive Outline of World History by J.E. Maxfield — Jack E. Maxfield
  • The Natural History of Pliny the Elder: Volume I — Pliny the Elder
  • The Natural History of Pliny the Elder: Volume II — Pliny the Elder
  • The Natural History of Pliny the Elder: Volume III — Pliny the Elder
  • The Natural History of Pliny the Elder: Volume IV — Pliny the Elder
  • The Natural History of Pliny the Elder: Volume V — Pliny the Elder
  • The Natural History of Pliny the Elder: Volume VI — Pliny the Elder
  • Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch — Plutarch
  • The New Penguin History of the World by J.M. Roberts — J. M. Roberts
  • The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell — Bertrand Russell
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer — William L. Shirer
  • The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler — Oswald Spengler
  • The Annals of Tacitus — Tacitus
  • Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R.H. Tawney — R. H. Tawney
  • The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides — Thucydides
  • A Study of History by Arnold Toynbee — Arnold J. Toynbee
  • The Annals of the World by James Ussher — James Ussher
  • A Short History of the World by H.G. Wells — H. G. Wells
  • A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: Vol I by Andrew Dickson White — Andrew Dickson White
  • A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: Vol II by Andrew Dickson White — Andrew Dickson White
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X and Alex Haley
  • Anabasis by Xenophon — Xenophon
  • The Whole Works of Xenophon — Xenophon
  • The Code of Hammurabi — Hammurabi
  • Magna Carta Libertatum (Great Charter of Liberties) — Anonymous, Traditional & Collective Works
  • The Emancipation Proclamation — Abraham Lincoln
  • The Treaty of Versailles — Allied and Associated Powers and Germany
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights — United Nations General Assembly
  • The Paris Agreement — United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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