10 must-read philosophy books like Pensamientos by Joseph Joubert

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Pensamientos

By: Joseph Joubert

4.08

Format: 476 pages, Hardcover

Repaso a la condición humana, reflexiones sobre la política, el amor, la literatura, la historia, l…

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Cover of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

1. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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3. Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel

By: Edmund White

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The distinguished biographer, novelist, and memoirist Edmund White brings his literary mastery to a… read more

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4. Electra

By: Euripides , Janet Lempke

2.86

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the… read more

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5. The Kreutzer Sonata

By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more

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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

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6. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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7. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings

By: Nyogen Senzaki , Paul Reps

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Zen Flesh, Zen Boneswas published in 1957 it became an instant sensation with an entire genera… read more

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8. Drawn and Quartered

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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9. The Trouble with Being Born

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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10. The Complete Essays

By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech

4.23

Format: 1344 pages, Paperback

Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more

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"The thing I fear most is fear."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"We should tend our freedom wisely."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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11. The Zürau Aphorisms

By: Franz Kafka , Michael Hofmann , Roberto Calasso , Geoffrey Brock

3.68

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are… read more

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"Usko kuin kirves. Yhtä raskas, yhtä kevyt."

-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

"چه‌طور می‌توان در دنیا شادمان بود مگر با گریختن از آن؟"

-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

"از رقیب راستین، شجاعت بی‌نهایتی به درون تو جریان دارد."

-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

"Meidän on aina kärsittävä itse kaikki aiheuttamamme kärsimys."

-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

12. Solenoid

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more

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13. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Tennessee Williams

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more

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"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

14. Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

By: Gail Sheehy

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

At last, this is your story. You'll recognize yourself, your friends, and your loves. You'll see ho… read more

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15. Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

By: Gustave Flaubert , None

4.03

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Throughout his life Flaubert made it a game to eavesdrop for the cliche, the platitude, the borrowe… read more

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16. Felici i felici

By: Yasmina Reza , Maurizia Balmelli

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Felici gli amati e gli amanti e coloro che possono fare a meno dell'amore. Felici i felici>>: le d… read more

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17. Breviario de los vencidos

By: Emil M. Cioran

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Breviario de los vencidos, escrito en París entre 1940 y 1946, es el sexto y último libro que Ciora… read more

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"Sólo el instante es divino infinito irremediable. El instante que uno está viviendo."

-Emil M. Cioran, Breviario de los vencidos

"Il semplice fatto di esistere è talmente grave che, a paragone, Dio non è che un mero trastullo."

-Emil M. Cioran, Breviario de los vencidos

"El amor crece en los ardores de la banalidad y disminuye en los momentos de lucidez de la inteligencia. La estupidez extática se repite con facilidad porque ningún obstáculo interviene en un cerebro …"

-Emil M. Cioran, Breviario de los vencidos

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18. Una conversazione notturna

By: Thomas Bernhard

3.86

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Nel 1977, ricevuto l'incarico di curare un libro di saggi critici sull'opera di Thomas Bernhard per… read more

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19. Pensamientos

By: Joseph Joubert

4.08

Format: 476 pages, Hardcover

Repaso a la condición humana, reflexiones sobre la política, el amor, la literatura, la historia, l… read more

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20. Carnetul unui afurisit

By: Emil M. Cioran

4.05

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

„Carnetul unui afurisit este ultima carte scrisă de Cioran în limba română. Manuscrisul restituit a… read more

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13 Top fiction books like Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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