Best Philosophy Books Overall

1. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
2. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
3. The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
4. The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
5. The Republic by Plato
6. Discourses by Epictetus
7. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Best Philosophy Books About Stoicism and Western Philosophy
8. Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
9. Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
10. On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
11. A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine
12. How to Be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci
13. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by Donald Robertson
14. The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday Best Philosophy Books About Eastern Philosophy
15. The Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa
16. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
17. The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
18. The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu Best Books About Important Philosophers
19. Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday
20. Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Goldstein
21. Breakfast With Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith Best Philosophy Books About Ethics & Morality
22. The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
23. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
24. The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
25. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker Best Philosophy Books for Productivity
26. Essentialism by Greg McKeown
27. Deep Work by Cal Newport
28. The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz Best Philosophy Books for Modern Life
29. Principles by Ray Dalio
30. 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
31. Minimalism by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
32. Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
33. Kaizen by Sarah Harvey
34. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
35. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle Conclusion Other Book Lists by Topic Other Book Lists by Author