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Loved Democracy and Education by John Dewey? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from philosophy, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    Sophie's World

    Jostein Gaarder · 1991 · Philosophy

    A teenager receives mysterious lessons that walk through the whole history of Western philosophy; a story and a course in one.

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    The Republic

    Plato · -380 · Philosophy

    Socrates argues with Athenian citizens about the nature of justice, the ideal city-state, the philosopher-king, the allegory of the cave, and the forms. Plato's dialogue is the foundational text of Western political philosophy and one of the most influential works of thought ever written.

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    Walking

    Henry David Thoreau · 1914 · Philosophy

    If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again, - if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your a

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    Anarchism and Other Essays

    Emma Goldman · 1910 · Philosophy

    "Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggl

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    Tractatus logico-philosophicus

    Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1921 · Philosophy

    Wittgenstein's book about the problems of language and his attempt of describing the world and an philosophical accurate and most of all logical language.

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    Siddhartha

    Hermann Hesse · 1922 · Philosophy

    Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha.

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    A Room of One's Own

    Virginia Woolf · 1929 · Philosophy

    A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two wom

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    A Modern Utopia

    H. G. Wells · 1900 · Philosophy

    Imagine a life without worries. You live in a perfect environment untouched by pollution. You have a job to do and play an important role in society. The politicians are watching out for your best int

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    A Study of History

    Arnold J. Toynbee · 1900 · Philosophy

    A masterful attempt to describe a universal history. Staggering depth of scholarship and breath of thought.

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    Del sentimiento trágico de la vida en los hombres y en los pueblos

    Miguel de Unamuno · 1900 · Philosophy

    Del sentimiento trágico de la vida en los hombres y en los pueblos, conocida usualmente como Del sentimiento trágico de la vida, es uno de los más destacados ensayos filosóficos de Miguel de Unamuno,

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