9 must-read philosophy books like ¿Qué es el hombre? by Martin Buber

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¿Qué es el hombre?

By: Martin Buber

3.68

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Este connotado filósofo austriaco emprendió aquí un enfoque antropo-filosófico sui géneris, que es …

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1. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.97

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined… read more

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"الشرف هو الحب" , هكذا كنت أسمع أمي تقول"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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2. La tregua

By: Mario Benedetti

4.18

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

De las varias y buenas novelas de Mario Benedetti, LA TREGUA es la que ha alcanzado mayor favor del… read more

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"Me aburrí de mí mismo, de mi propia paciencia."

-Mario Benedetti, La tregua

"أنا وحدي مثل بطل ولكن دون أي مبرر للاحساس بالشجاعة"

-Mario Benedetti, La tregua

"أشعر أحيانا بالتعاسة لمجرد أني لا أعرف ما هو الشيء الذي أحن إليه."

-Mario Benedetti, La tregua

"¿Por qué las palmas de mi mano tienen una memoria más fiel que mi memoria?"

-Mario Benedetti, La tregua

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3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more

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  • philosophy
"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Matthew    Ward
, Stuart Gilbert, None

4. 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
"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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5. Sophie’s World

By: Jostein Gaarder , Paulette Møller

3.96

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen c… read more

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"الذي يعرف الخير يفعل الخير"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"الأكثر ذكاء هو الذي يعرف أنه لا يعرف"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"Wisest is she who knows she does not know."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"It's not a silly question if you can't answer it."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

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6. Las batallas en el desierto

By: José Emilio Pacheco

4.13

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A novella depicts the harsh reality of life in urban Mexico and the tragedy of childhood innocence … read more

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"Enamorarse sabiendo que todo está perdido y no hay ninguna esperanza."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"Querer a alguien no es pecado, el amor está bien, lo único demoníaco es el odio."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"Qué estupidez meterme en un lío que pude haber evitado con sólo resistirme a mi imbécil declaración de amor.Todo pasó como pasan los discos en la sinfonola."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

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7. South of the Border, West of the Sun

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.86

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition here. Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime t… read more

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"Is that what you see in my eyes, that you know nothing about me?"

-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

"But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain."

-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

"Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together."

-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

"What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities."

-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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8. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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9. Men Without Women

By: Haruki Murakami , None

3.75

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, in… read more

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"Tobacco’s a killer,"

-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."

-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

"Crying for someone else is nothing to apologize about,"

-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

"That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around."

-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

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10. A Happy Death

By: Albert Camus , Richard Howard , Jean Sarocchi

4.15

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel… read more

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  • philosophy
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11. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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12. The Choice: Embrace the Possible

By: Edith Eger , Edith Eva Eger

4.58

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

It’s 1944 and sixteen-year-old ballerina and gymnast Edith Eger is sent to Auschwitz. Separated fro… read more

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"Time doesn’t heal. It’s what you do with the time."

-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

"...By the time I would finish school I'll be fifty? He smiled. "You're going to be fifty anyhow"

-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

"Survivors don't have time to ask, "Why me?" For survivors, the only relevant question is, "What now?"

-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

"We cannot choose to have a life free of hurt. But we can choose to be free, to escape the past, no matter what befalls us, and to embrace the possible."

-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

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13. An Essay on Man

By: Frank Brady , Alexander Pope

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • philosophy
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14. El Llano en llamas

By: Juan Rulfo

4.47

Format: None pages,

'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more

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15. The Death of Ivan Ilych

By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude

4.13

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more

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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

16. El túnel

By: None

5.00

Format: None pages,

Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada "literatura existenci… read more

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17. The Martian Chronicles

By: Ray Bradbury

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonis… read more

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18. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel , Alfred Birnbaum

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition . In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only… read more

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19. La ciudad y los perros

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

En 1962, La ciudad y los perros recibia el Premio Biblioteca Breve. Asi comenzaba la andadura liter… read more

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20. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

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21. Happening

By: Annie Ernaux

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more

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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

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22. Hurricane Season

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more

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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

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23. Paradais

By: Fernanda Melchor

3.64

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more

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"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"

-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais

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24. La crisis de la narración

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.90

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comun… read more

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  • philosophy
"Nuevas narraciones hacen posible una nueva percepción. La "nueva valoración de todos los valores" de la que hablaba Nietzsche abre una nueva perspectiva al mundo."

-Byung-Chul Han, La crisis de la narración

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25. Ceniza en la boca

By: Brenda Navarro

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Diego salta desde un quinto piso y desde entonces esa imagen no deja de taladrarle la cabeza a su h… read more

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26. Still Born

By: Guadalupe Nettel

4.13

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more

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"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

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27. Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.11

Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition

Die Digitalisierung schreitet unaufhaltsam voran. Wir sind benommen vom Kommunikations- und Informa… read more

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  • philosophy
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28. Les Aérostats

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.65

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

"La jeunesse est un talent, il faut des années pour l'acquérir." Dans ce nouveau livre, la romanci… read more

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29. De pronto oigo la voz del agua

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

«No me gusta hablar del pasado. Mamá lo repetía a menudo, casi en un susurro, pero nada más decirl… read more

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"Visto así, todo carece de sentido."

-Hiromi Kawakami, De pronto oigo la voz del agua

"¿No era el hambre síntoma de un vacío más profundo?"

-Hiromi Kawakami, De pronto oigo la voz del agua

"Sigo sin saber dónde situarme, qué lugar me corresponde en el mundo."

-Hiromi Kawakami, De pronto oigo la voz del agua

"Todos morimos al fin y al cabo. No me parece tan raro hablar de muertos."

-Hiromi Kawakami, De pronto oigo la voz del agua

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30. Desde los zulos

By: Dahlia de la Cerda

4.30

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Mezclando la autoficción, la crónica y el pensamiento feminista, en Desde los zulos Dahlia de la Ce… read more

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"Un cuarto propio también son los privilegios que ayudan a que una mujer escriba. Una jornada laboral de menos de ocho horas es un cuarto propio. Dinero y tiempo para ir a un café a escribir es un cua…"

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Desde los zulos

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31. ¿Qué es el hombre?

By: Martin Buber

3.68

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Este connotado filósofo austriaco emprendió aquí un enfoque antropo-filosófico sui géneris, que es … read more

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  • philosophy
  • anthropology

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Gabriel García Márquez

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