Best Philosophy Books
Best Philosophy Books is a structured books dataset with 149 entries. Its fields include Name, Title, Author. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
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Dataset details
- Table scope
- 40-row preview of 149
- Fields
- 6 columns
- Source
- Open Library
- Data updated
- Feb 21, 2026
Included fields: Name, Title, Author, First Published, Subjects, and 2 more.
Sorting and filtering apply to the 40 loaded preview rows. CSV, JSON, and Excel downloads contain all 149 records.
Preview observations
- First Published range
- 1,478 to 1,943
- Across 40 preview rows
- Editions range
- 315 to 3,546
- Across 40 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Name, Title, and Author across books entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 149 downloadable records
Name↕ | Title↕ | Author↕ | First Published↕ | Subjects↕ | Editions↕ | Languages↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 1865 | Alice (fictitious character : carroll), fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, fantasy, general, JUVENILE FICTION | 3,546 | guj, jpn, por |
The Picture of Dorian Gray | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 1890 | British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Conduct of life, fiction, Fantasy fiction, Appearance (Philosophy) | 3,011 | arm, cos, jpn |
Hamlet | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | 1603 | performing arts, Stage history, Reyes, reinas, soberanos, Venganza | 2,388 | arm, guj, sin |
Don Quijote de la Mancha | Don Quijote de la Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 1600 | Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de), Quotations, Knights and knighthood, Social life and customs | 1,591 | jpn, ori, alb |
The Art of War | The Art of War | 孙武, Sun Tzu | 1900 | Open Library Staff Picks, Early works to 1800, Military art and science, great_books_of_the_western_world | 1,434 | jpn, por, cmn |
The Prince | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | 1515 | Political science, early works to 1800, Machiavel, Nicolas, 1469-1527. Prince, Classic Literature, Fiction | 1,407 | jpn, por, spa |
Through the Looking-Glass | Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | 1865 | Fantasy, Fiction, English Nonsense verses, Children's poetry, English | 1,378 | ger, jpn, ukr |
Walden | Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | Biography, Homes and haunts, American Authors, Social life and customs | 1,138 | eng, fre, chi |
Candide | Candide | Voltaire | 1746 | Conduct of life, Readers, Literatura francesa, Satire | 1,079 | spa, rus, und |
πολιτεία | πολιτεία | Πλάτων | 1554 | Political science, Early works to 1800, Utopias, Ouvrages avant 1800 | 794 | guj, por, dan |
Leaves of Grass | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 1855 | Manuscripts, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Gay poets, Presidents | 755 | pol, heb, spa |
The Canterbury Tales | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham | 1478 | Death, English Narrative poetry, Juvenile poetry, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature | 722 | est, enm, rus |
Le petit prince | Le petit prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 1943 | adventure, fantasy, friendship, love | 688 | arm, jpn, por |
As a man thinketh | As a man thinketh | James Allen | 1902 | New Thought, Conduct of life, Miniature books, Specimens | 657 | ger, mal, hin |
Tao te Ching | Tao te Ching | 老子 | 1842 | Chinese Philosophy, Chinese language materials, Peace, Tao | 648 | heb, spa, may |
Meditations | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | 1626 | Early works to 1800, Philosophy, Stoics, Classic Literature | 642 | arm, spa, cze |
The Prophet | The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran, R. Black | 1900 | American Prose poems, Lebanese, Prose, Essays Classic Literature | 569 | arm, heb, guj |
Orthodoxy | Orthodoxy | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 1874 | Apologetics, Christianity, History, Essence, genius, nature | 551 | eng, ger, pol |
Also sprach Zarathustra | Also sprach Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1883 | Classic Literature, Fiction, Filosofie, Filosofía | 550 | epo, spa, ita |
Saint Francis of Assisi | Saint Francis of Assisi | Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Doyle Kim | 1923 | Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality | 547 | eng, ger, spa |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll | 1889 | adventure and adventurers, adventure and adventurers, fiction, adventure stories, adventure travel | 543 | pol, spa, rus |
De rerum natura | De rerum natura | Titus Lucretius Carus | 1486 | Latin Didactic poetry, Ancient Philosophy, Poetry, Translations into English | 537 | spa, rus, und |
La Poetica | La Poetica | Aristotle | 1479 | Metaphysics, Early works to 1800, Metaphysica (Aristoteles), Rhetoric, ancient | 498 | heb, spa, per |
The Book of Tea | The Book of Tea | Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō | 1900 | Japanese tea ceremony, Social life and customs, Tea, Philosophy | 475 | epo, heb, spa |
L’étranger | L’étranger | Albert Camus | 1942 | Philosophical Novels, Murder, Fiction, Medicine in Literature | 468 | jpn, por, spa |
On Liberty | On Liberty | John Stuart Mill | 1859 | Liberté, Morale, Politique, Liberty | 465 | heb, spa, jpn |
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei | Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei | Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels | 1848 | Communism, Sources, Capitalism, Socialism | 458 | arm, por, dan |
Confessions | Confessions | Augustine of Hippo | 1482 | Religious aspects of Truth, Christian saints, Christianity, Spiritual life | 449 | heb, spa, rus |
Nicomachean Ethics | Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle, J. A. Smith | 1558 | Ethics, Early works to 1800, Morale ancienne, Ouvrages avant 1800 | 416 | heb, guj, spa |
Jenseits von Gut und Böse | Jenseits von Gut und Böse | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1885 | Ethics, Philosophy, Translations into English, Good and evil. | 415 | spa, ger, fre |
Pensées | Pensées | Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier | 1670 | Apologetic works, Apologetics, Apologétique, Auteurs catholiques | 395 | ger, lat, fre |
Der Antichrist | Der Antichrist | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1895 | Christianity, Controversial literature, Antichrist, Christianity, controversial literature | 384 | eng, ger, spa |
कामसूत्र | कामसूत्र | Vatsyāyana | 1883 | Sex customs, Love, Sexual intercourse, Sex | 381 | spa, ger, hun |
The golden bough | The golden bough | James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster | 1890 | Mythology, Magic, Superstition, Religion | 371 | ita, eng, fre |
Συμπόσιον | Συμπόσιον | Πλάτων | 1559 | Love, Early works to 1800, Soul, Rhetoric | 350 | eng, ita, ger |
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | David Hume | 1779 | Natural theology, Early works to 1800, Early works to 1900, Religion | 340 | fre, eng |
À rebours | À rebours | Joris-Karl Huysmans | 1884 | Aesthetics, Fiction, Fiction, general, Translations from French | 336 | spa, und, ger |
Tom Sawyer Abroad | Tom Sawyer Abroad | Mark Twain | 1894 | Balloon ascensions, Travel, Tom Sawyer (Fictitious character), Americans | 333 | eng, fin |
Lives | Lives | Plutarch | 1564 | Biography, Classical biography, Early works to 1800, Philosophy, ancient | 322 | heb, guj, rus |
An essay on man | An essay on man | Alexander Pope | 1733 | Poetry, Human beings, English Philosophy, Theological anthropology | 315 | ita, ger, fre |
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