13 Top philosophy books like God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. (Penguin Great Ideas) by Friedrich Nietzsche

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God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. (Penguin Great Ideas)

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Grounded in his famous notion that "God is dead," a selection from Nietzsche's most personal book, …

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1. Femme Fatale

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.56

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Norman… read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
  • classics
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2. On the Suffering of the World

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

3.86

Format: 132 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A collection of essays by Schopenhauer on the perception of the importance of art, morality and sel… read more

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"A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

"If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

"... everyone desires to achieve old age, that is to say a condition in which one can say: "Today is bad, and day by day it will get worse - until at last the worst of all arrives."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

"... with man sexual gratification is tied to a very obstinate selectivity which is sometimes intensified into a more or less passionate love. Thus sexuality becomes for man a source of brief pleasure…"

-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

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Matthew    Ward
, Stuart Gilbert, None

3. The Stranger

By: Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
"It is better to burn than to disappear."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"After awhile you could get used to anything."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

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4. Fear and Trembling

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more

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  • philosophy
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5. The Myth of Sisyphus

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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"A fate is not a punishment."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"there are truths but no truth"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"To will is to stir up paradoxes"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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6. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

By: Sylvia Plath

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.... If I sit still and don't do anythin… read more

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  • essays
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7. Notes from Underground & The Double

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Jessie Coulson

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!'Alien… read more

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  • philosophy
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Cover of Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre, Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre, Annie Cohen-Solal, None

8. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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  • philosophy
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9. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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10. On Suicide

By: David Hume

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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11. Essays and Aphorisms

By: Arthur Schopenhauer , R.J. Hollingdale

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer believed that human action… read more

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12. Lettre à un otage

By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , None

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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13. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

14. Books v. Cigarettes

By: George Orwell

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's … read more

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15. The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's work… read more

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16. Animal Liberation

By: Peter Singer

3.80

Format: 220 pages,

The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work… read more

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17. Maxims

By: François de la Rochefoucauld , Leonard Tancock

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire an… read more

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18. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

By: Slavoj Žižek

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at… read more

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19. Lijmen / Het Been

By: Willem Elsschot

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

'Nu ja, lijmen. De mensen bepraten en dan doen tekenen. En als zij getekend hebben, krijgen zij het… read more

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20. Blauwe maandagen

By: Arnon Grunberg

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Het beurtelings hilarische en onthutsende relaas van een opgroeiende jongen die op zoek is naar de … read more

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21. The Denial of Death

By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen

4.32

Format: 80 pages,

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more

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22. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay , Victor Eremita

4.25

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

'What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?' Eith… read more

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23. Reflections on the Guillotine

By: Albert Camus , Richard Howard

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An essay on capital punishment by the 1957 Nobel Prize winner. read more

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24. Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more

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25. Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

By: Multatuli , Eduard Douwes Dekker , None , None

4.06

Format: 255 pages,

Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treat… read more

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26. Create Dangerously

By: Albert Camus

3.84

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a respo… read more

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"Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars without dying, if possible."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"Perhaps there is no peace for an artist other than the peace found in the heat of combat."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"But now the artist is in the amphitheatre. Of necessity, his voice is not quite the same; it is not nearly so firm."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

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27. The Flowers of Buffoonery

By: Osamu Dazai

3.83

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu… read more

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"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."

-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."

-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

"It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him."

-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."

-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

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28. The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World

By: Aliya Whiteley

3.60

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

Aliya Whiteley has always been in love with the wondrous and bizarre world of fungi - from a childh… read more

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"This particular orchid gets all its energy from fungi, sometimes from different kinds of fungi simultaneously. It never even begins to turn to the sun. No photosynthesis here. It relies utterly on it…"

-Aliya Whiteley, The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World

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29. What Is Existentialism?

By: Simone de Beauvoir

3.91

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and … read more

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30. God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. (Penguin Great Ideas)

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Grounded in his famous notion that "God is dead," a selection from Nietzsche's most personal book, … read more

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  • 19th century
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  • collections
  • philosophy
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31. Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli

By: Karl Thomas Smith

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Grief is all around us. At the heart of the brightly coloured, vividly characterised, joyful films … read more

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14 Top classics books like God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. (Penguin Great Ideas) by Friedrich Nietzsche

Transform Your Habits

Femme Fatale

Guy de Maupassant

3.56

Transform Your Habits

On the Suffering of the World

Arthur Schopenhauer

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.75

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16 Top fiction books like Notes from Underground & The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson

Transform Your Habits

Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch

Witold Gombrowicz , J.A. Underwood

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

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