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Loved Autobiography by John Stuart Mill? 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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    Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism

    Matthew Arnold · 1869 · Philosophy

    "Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society. Arno

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    Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883 · Philosophy

    A prophet descends to teach a new way of valuing life; poetic, provocative and frequently misread.

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    Marius the Epicurean

    Walter Pater · 1885 · Philosophy

    Marius is born in the second-century Roman Empire to a patrician family. In his youth he takes in the rituals, religion, and surroundings of his native land, and when his parents die, he’s sent away t

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    Familiar quotations; a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern liter

    John Bartlett · 1855 · Philosophy

    Accurate • Modern • Reliable • Convenient ♦ THE FIRST AND ONLY HANDY POCKET EDITION OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS TREASURY OF QUOTATIONS "Everyone who puts words on paper for others to reod, everyone who ever s

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    Mutual Aid

    Peter Kropotkin · 1891 · Philosophy

    Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a 1902 collection of anthropological essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. The essays, initially published in the English periodi

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    De la division du travail social

    Émile Durkheim · 1893 · Philosophy

    "In 1893, a young doctoral student was to publish an entirely original work on the nature of labor and production as they were being shaped by the industrial revolution. Emile Durkheim's The Division

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    Plato and Platonism

    Walter Pater · 1893 · Philosophy

    Plato’s ideas have had an enduring and important impact on philosophy, science, and all people, from the ancient kings to modern day man and to all people in between. He passionately touches on the to

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    The Book of the Dead

    E. A. Wallis Budge · 1894 · Philosophy

    The Book of the Dead is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. These consist of spells and inca

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