Top Philosophy Books

The top 29 books in this category, curated and ranked.

Updated April 1, 2026

Rank	Book
#1	The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
#2	The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Karl Marx
#3	Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
#4	Das Kapital, Volume I by Karl Marx
#5	The Republic by Plato
#6	The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
#7	The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
#8	Capital, Volume 1 by Karl Marx
#9	Das Kapital by Karl Marx
#10	The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
#11	The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
#12	The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi
#13	Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
#14	The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
#15	The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
#16	No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
#17	Walden by Henry David Thoreau
#18	The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
#19	Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
#20	On the Soul by Aristotle
#21	The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
#22	Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
#23	Race Matters by Cornel West
#24	Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
#25	An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#26	The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama
#27	Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell
#28	Poetics by Aristotle
#29	The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins