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A General View of Positivism(1848)

Auguste Comte

translated by J. H. Bridges · read in 50 days ·

A Room of One's Own(1929)

Virginia Woolf

read in 21 days ·

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman(1792)

Mary Wollstonecraft

read in 40 days ·

All Quiet on the Western Front(1928)

Erich Maria Remarque

translated by Arthur W. Wheen · read in 34 days ·

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding(1748)

David Hume

read in 29 days ·

Antigone(c. 440 BC)

Sophocles

translated by Francis Storr · read in 7 days ·

Candide(1759)

Voltaire

translated by The Modern Library · read in 19 days ·

Enchiridion (or, The Manual)(c. 125)

Epictetus

translated by Percy E. Matheson · read in 5 days ·

Essays(1841)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

read in 60 days ·

Frankenstein (first version)(1818)

Mary W. Shelley

read in 43 days ·

Frankenstein (second version)(1831)

Mary W. Shelley

read in 46 days ·

Hamlet(c. 1601)

William Shakespeare

read in 12 days ·

Jane Eyre(1847)

Charlotte Brontë

read in 91 days ·

Meditations(c. 170-180)

Marcus Aurelius

translated by A. S. L. Farquharson · read in 29 days ·

Nicomachean Ethics(c. 330 BC)

Aristotle

translated by David M. Gross · read in 48 days ·

Notes from Underground(1864)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

translated by Constance Garnett · read in 26 days ·

Notes on Nationalism(1945)

George Orwell

read in 7 days ·

On Liberty(1859)

John Stuart Mill

read in 25 days ·

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience(1848)

Henry David Thoreau

read in 5 days ·

On the Shortness of Life(c. 49)

Seneca

translated by John W. Basore · read in 6 days ·

The Art of War(5th century BC)

Sun Tzu

translated by Lionel Giles · read in 12 days ·

The Consolation of Philosophy(523)

Boethius

translated by H. R. James · read in 21 days ·

The Count of Monte Cristo(1844)

Alexandre Dumas

translated by Chapman and Hall · read in 246 days ·

The Devil’s Pool(1846)

George Sand

translated by Jane Minot and Ellery Sedgwick · read in 21 days ·

The Genealogy of Morals(1887)

Friedrich Nietzsche

translated by Horace B. Samuel · read in 29 days ·

The Influence of Rationalism(1865)

George Eliot

read in 4 days ·

The Metamorphosis(1915)

Franz Kafka

translated by Ian Johnston · read in 11 days ·

The Prince(1513)

Niccolò Machiavelli

translated by W. K. Marriot · read in 20 days ·

The Problems of Philosophy(1912)

Bertrand Russell

read in 27 days ·

The Republic(c. 360 BC)

Plato

translated by Benjamin Jowett · read in 60 days ·

The Theory of Moral Sentiments(1759)

Adam Smith

read in 81 days ·