13 must-read philosophy books like The Ninety-Five Theses and Other Writings by Martin Luther

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The Ninety-Five Theses and Other Writings

By: Martin Luther

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

For the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a new translation of Martin Luther's most famous work…

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1. City of God

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson

3.93

Format: 1186 pages, Paperback

No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's City of… read more

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"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

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2. The Cost of Discipleship

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between… read more

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"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

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3. The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley , Zlatko Wurzberg

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original Fre… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"But, then, what is philosophy today—philosophical activity, I mean—if it is not the critical work that thought brings to bear on itself? In what does it consist, if not in the endeavor to know how an…"

-Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure

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4. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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5. The Imitation of Christ

By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Paperback

Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more

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6. Human, All Too Human

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale

3.77

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdal… read more

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  • german literature
  • philosophy
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7. Galápagos

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.38

Format: 613 pages,

Galapagostakes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly b… read more

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8. Being and Time

By: Martin Heidegger

4.05

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more

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"But “nowhere"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"El ente existente “se"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

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9. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics

10. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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11. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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12. An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

By: John of Damascus

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

A polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music,… read more

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13. The Trial and Death of Socrates

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

3.63

Format: 224 pages,

The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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14. Mary and Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft & Matilda by Mary Shelley

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Mary Wollstonecraft , Janet Todd

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

This book brings together three extraordinary novels by an extraordinary pair, Mary Wollstonecraft … read more

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  • classics
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15. Utopia

By: Paul Turner , Thomas More

3.55

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more

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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."

-Paul Turner, Utopia

16. Resurrection

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude

4.00

Format: None pages,

Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attem… read more

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17. My Bondage and My Freedom

By: Frederick Douglass , John David Smith

3.00

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following … read more

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18. 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

19. Rights of Man

By: Thomas Paine

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

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20. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

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21. القرآن الكريم

By: Anonymous

4.38

Format: 604 pages, Hardcover

The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن‎ al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally … read more

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"We are nearer to him than his jugular vein."

-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم

"إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم"

-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم

"The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer."

-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم

"The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr."

-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم

22. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

By: Edith Wharton , Laszlo Kubinyi

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

These 11 spine-tingling tales of the supernatural bring to light the author's interest in the tradi… read more

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23. Ecclesiastical History of the English People

By: Bede , Ronald E. Latham , None , Leo Sherley-Price

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and hist… read more

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24. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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25. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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26. Luther

By: John Osborne

3.83

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Luther is a play by John James Osborne that explored the forces that were involved in the life of t… read more

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27. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

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28. The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

By: Richard J. Evans

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler… read more

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  • history
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29. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.94

Format: None pages, Audio CD

The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how… read more

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"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

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30. In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire

By: Laurence Bergreen

3.91

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus brings ali… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. The Ninety-Five Theses and Other Writings

By: Martin Luther

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

For the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a new translation of Martin Luther's most famous work… read more

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18 Top classics books like The Ninety-Five Theses and Other Writings by Martin Luther

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City of God

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson

3.93

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The Cost of Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

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Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

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The Imitation of Christ

Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.

4.32

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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon

3.09

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The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.

3.77

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The Faerie Queene, Book One

Edmund Spenser , Andrew Hadfield , None , None , None

3.09

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