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Books like The Road to Serfdom

Loved The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. von Hayek? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from essays, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    The Fire Next Time

    James Baldwin · 1963 · Essays

    Two searing essays on race, faith and America; as urgent now as when they were written.

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    Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    Joan Didion · 1968 · Essays

    Sharp, cool essays on 1960s America; the book that set the standard for the personal essay.

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    Between man and man

    Martin Buber · 1947 · Essays

    Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one b

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    Selected literary criticism

    D. H. Lawrence · 1935 · Essays

    Contains the best of D.H. Lawrence's literary criticism.

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    The Human Condition

    Hannah Arendt · 1958 · Essays

    A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern hum

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    A Grief Observed

    C. S. Lewis · 1961 · Essays

    Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the mid

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    Edvard Munch

    Edvard Munch · 1927 · Essays

    Während eines achtmonatigen Aufenthalts in dem Sanatorium von Dr. Daniel Jacobsen in Kopenhagen verwandelt Munch sein Krankenzimmer in ein Atelier und entwickelt einen neuen extrovertierteren und expr

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    Historias de cronopios y de famas

    Julio Cortázar · 1962 · Essays

    "The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, describes the obsessions a

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    De Proust a Camus

    André Maurois · 1963 · Essays

    This book is the ideal introduction to modern French literature.

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    Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein

    György Lukács · 1923 · Essays

    History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (German: Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein – Studien über marxistische Dialektik) is a 1923 book by the Hungarian philosopher György Lukác

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