Lovers of Philosophy
By: Warren Ward
4.47
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
They were Europe’s greatest thinkers, but what were they like at love? Lovers of Philosophy expl…
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1. 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
- nonfiction
2. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
3. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
The Return of Sherlock Holmesis a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in… read more
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4. In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
By: Bertrand Russell
4.01
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
5. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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- philosophy
- history
- nonfiction
6. 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
- nonfiction
7. Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
By: Irvin D. Yalom
3.66
Format: 162 pages,
The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteri… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
8. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan
3.85
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more
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"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
9. On Love
By: Alain de Botton
3.97
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
"The longing for a destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life" we are told at the outset… read more
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- philosophy
"Must being in love always mean being in pain?"-Alain de Botton, On Love
"Because I have this thing about birthdays--they always remind me of death and forced jollity."-Alain de Botton, On Love
"The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call."-Alain de Botton, On Love
"Does beauty give birth to love? Or does love give birth to beauty? Did I love Chloe because she was beautiful? Or was she beautiful because I loved her?"-Alain de Botton, On Love
10. Kafka on the Shore
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
4.13
Format: 467 pages, Paperback
Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable character… read more
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"In dreams begins responsiblities."-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"I don’t know what it means to live."-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"Artists are those who can evade the verbose."-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars."-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
11. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more
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12. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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13. The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
By: Stephen Grosz
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Echoing Socrates' time-honoured statement that the unexamined life is not worth living, psychoanaly… read more
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14. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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- philosophy
"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
15. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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- philosophy
"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
16. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
17. The Rainbow
By: Yasunari Kawabata
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters i… read more
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"La profondità dell'essere umano è proporzionale alle esperienze vissute e alla lontananza del tempo in cui il suo animo si immerge."-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow
"Un ponte di pietra tra le anime? Meglio allora un arcobaleno." "Sì, è possible che il ponte che unisce due anime sia simile a un arcobaleno."-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow
"Fra le tante cose che suscitano nell'uomo una sensazione di impotenza, l'architettura è più di ogni altra arte soggetta a condizionamenti. Luogo, materiale, destinazione, grandezza, costi, le bizzarr…"-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow
18. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
19. The Last Conversation
By: Paul Tremblay
3.76
Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition
What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning autho… read more
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"Soon. You keep saying soon. I don't think you and I share that words meaning."-Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation
20. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
21. Seeing Other People
By: Diana Reid
3.42
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more
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22. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
23. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
By: Kikuko Tsumura
3.60
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly fu… read more
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"Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort."-Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
24. Zikora
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.27
Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition
The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a mov… read more
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"You can’t nice your way to being loved."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"Some kindnesses you do not ever forget. You carry them to your grave, held warmly somewhere, brought up and savored from time to time."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"Respect: a starched deference, a string of ashen rituals. It was my mother who sat beside my father at weddings and ceremonies; it was her photo that appeared above the label of “wife"-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"If he was going to have a child, of course he should have a say, but how much of a say, since the body was mine, since in creating a child, Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the m…"-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
25. A Brief History of Equality
By: Thomas Piketty
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimist… read more
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- philosophy
- history
- nonfiction
"The idea that each country–or worse yet–each person in each country is individually responsible for its production and its wealth, makes little sense from a historical point of view. All wealth is co…"-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
"The growth of wealth in the Western world, like that in Japan or China, has long been based on the international division of labor and the feverish exploitation of natural and human resources worldwi…"-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
26. The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
By: Irving Finkel
4.03
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
Ghosts - the spirits of the dead - have walked by our side since time immemorial.In The First Ghost… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"It is only the early human mid that grew to strive against the prospect of the final annihilation of the self, a hallmark rebellion that became hard-wired into, and always an essential element of, na…"-Irving Finkel, The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
27. Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods
By: Mariana Alessandri
3.96
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher’s personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means t… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
28. Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die
By: Steven Nadler
3.84
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about li… read more
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- nonfiction
29. If You Are Lonely and You Know It (Currency)
By: Yiyun Li
3.42
Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition
He tends to his garden and bees. He keeps quiet. He avoids drama. Until one transgression causes an… read more
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30. Lovers of Philosophy
By: Warren Ward
4.47
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
They were Europe’s greatest thinkers, but what were they like at love? Lovers of Philosophy expl… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Albert Camus and the Human Crisis
By: Robert E. Meagher
4.44
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis” that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
