Classic Philosophy & Ideas
Marcus Aurelius writing Meditations to himself in the field, Nietzsche's Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, Thoreau at Walden Pond, Mill arguing the case for liberty. The essential shelf of public-domain philosophy — click-to-explain on every Greek term, scholastic reference, and historical name, so the argument stays an argument and doesn't collapse into footnote hunting.
31 books

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Dialogues by Plato

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Tao Te Ching by Laozi

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

A Confession by Leo Tolstoy

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

Candide by Voltaire

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy

Demian by Hermann Hesse

Essays by Henry David Thoreau

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith

Kusamakura by Natsume Sōseki

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

The Kural by Thiruvalluvar

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw

Unto This Last by John Ruskin

Festus by Philip James Bailey

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson

The Unicorn from the Stars by Lady Gregory

A Day at a Time by Archibald Alexander

The Pilgrim Kamanita by Karl Gjellerup

Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater

Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw
