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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

Wolfram Eilenberger

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

Utopia

Thomas More

Walden: Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau

What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy

Thomas Nagel

What Kind of Creatures Are We?

Noam Chomsky

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Michael J. Sandel

What We Owe the Future

William MacAskill

When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought

Jim Holt

Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

Russ Roberts

Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

Ryan Holiday

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

Robert Pirsig

Philosophy Library

A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control

A Little History of Philosophy

A Theory of Justice

A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Mor

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh