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Ultimate Best Books

Genre: Philosophy (57 books)

The best classic books from the Philosophy genre.

The Glass Bead Game

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

4.0 (3)

It is our intention to preserve in these pages what scant biographical material we have been able to collect concerning Joseph Knecht, or Ludi Magister Josephus III, as he is called in the Archives of the Glass Bead Game.

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The Interpretation of Dreams

The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud

3.67 (3)

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The Moviegoer

The Moviegoer

Walker Percy

3.67 (3)

This morning I got a note from my aunt asking me to come for lunch.

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The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge

W. Somerset Maugham

4.5 (2)

I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. If I call it a novel it is only because I don't know what else to call it.

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The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

5.0 (1)

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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera

3.25 (4)

In February 1948, the Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to harangue hundreds of thousands of citizens massed in Old Town Square.

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Point Counter Point

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

3.33 (3)

'You won't be late?'

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The Sea, the Sea

The Sea, the Sea

Iris Murdoch

3.5 (2)

The sea which lies before me as I write glows rather than sparkles in the bland May sunshine.

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