16 Top philosophy books like The Trouble with Being Born by Richard Howard, Emil M. Cioran

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The Trouble with Being Born

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille, Alastair Hamilton

1. Literature and Evil

By: Georges Bataille , Alastair Hamilton

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

”Literature is not innocent,” Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literar… read more

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  • philosophy
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  • france
  • essays
"La poesía, en un primer impulso, destruye los objetos que aprehende, los restituye, mediante esa destrucción, a la inasible fluidez de la existencia del poeta, y a ese precio espera encontrar la iden…"

-Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil

Cover of Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Tanner, R.J. Hollingdale

2. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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  • classics
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"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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3. 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

Cover of The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner, David Leopold

4. The Ego and Its Own

By: Max Stirner , David Leopold

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1845) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Mo… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
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"Political liberty,"

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

"A minha causa é a causa de nada."

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

"Proudhon, e.g., thinks that with the sentence “Property is theft"

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

"No dia em que devorares o sagrado, ele torna-se tua propriedade!"

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

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5. The Book of Disquiet

By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith

4.41

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
"My past is everything I failed to be."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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6. Ecce Homo

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to c… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
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  • psychology
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7. Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide

By: Sarah Perry

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Millions of years ago, humans just happened. Accidents of environment and genetics contributed to t… read more

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8. 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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  • essays
"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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9. The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more

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  • classics
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  • psychology
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10. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.22

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist t… read more

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  • philosophy
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"Créer, c'est vivre deux fois."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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11. 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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  • france
  • essays
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12. The Trouble with Being Born

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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  • romania
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13. 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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14. No Longer Human

By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene

3.99

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poign… read more

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"Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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15. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None

4.21

Format: 534 pages, Paperback

Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more

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"Scoundrels are always sociable."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

16. 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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17. Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

By: David Benatar

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Better Never to Have Beenargues for a number of related, highly provocative, views: (1) Coming into… read more

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18. 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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  • psychology
"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

19. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more

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20. 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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21. The Last Messiah

By: Peter Wessel Zapffe

4.32

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

The supreme text of Antinatalist despair! Norwegian philosopher Peter Zapffe re-imagines the human … read more

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"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture pas…"

-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

"A man will come forth, who before all other men has dared to strip his soul naked and give himself wholly over to our most profound questioning, even to the idea of annihilation. A man who has graspe…"

-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

14 must-read classics books like The Trouble with Being Born by Richard Howard, Emil M. Cioran

Transform Your Habits

Literature and Evil

Georges Bataille , Alastair Hamilton

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Ego and Its Own

Max Stirner , David Leopold

4.06

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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

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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