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Loved Tractatus logico-philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein? 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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    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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    Democracy and Education

    John Dewey · 1916 · Philosophy

    Publisher description: John Dewey (1859-1952) believed that learning was active and schooling unnecessarily long and restrictive. His idea was that children came to school to do things and live in a c

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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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    Three guineas

    Virginia Woolf · 1938 · Philosophy

    In response to three requests for donations (to a peace society; to a woman's college rebuilding fund; to a society for obtaining employment for professional women) the author proposes that "the daugh

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    Escape from Freedom

    Erich Fromm · 1941 · Philosophy

    Escape from Freedom is a book by the Frankfurt-born psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, first published in the United States by Farrar & Rinehart in 1941 with the title Escape from Freedom and a year later as

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    The Myth of Sisyphus

    Albert Camus · 1942 · Philosophy

    Why life worth living despite its apparent absurdity; the essay that frames absurdism.

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