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★ 4.5
1965
Dune (Imaginary place)
Dune
Frank Herbert
Books about music and sound
Science writing for non-scientists
Classic essays every reader should know
Books that explore identity
Novels that experiment with structure
Essential
Essential Reads
★ 4.5
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
1949
futurology · censorship
★ 4.0
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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
2011
Technology and civilization · Human beings
★ 4.0
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
2006
Fiction · Dystopia
★ 4.0
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Thinking, fast and slow
Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman
2011
Intuition · Thought and thinking
★ 3.5
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays, Ryan Holiday
2006
Philosophy · Classical philology
★ 4.0
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
1969
Ciencia-ficción · Hugo Award Winner
★ 4.0
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R. Hofstadter
1979
Logics · Teoria Do Conhecimento
Philosophy
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare
1603
performing arts · Stage history
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1600
Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) · Quotations
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The Art of War
孙武 (Sun Tzu), Stephen F. Kaufman, Lionel Giles, Onésimo Colavidas
1900
Open Library Staff Picks · Early works to 1800
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The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
1515
Political science, early works to 1800 · Machiavel, Nicolas, 1469-1527. Prince
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Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
1865
Fantasy · Fiction
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau
1854
Biography · Homes and haunts
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Candide
Voltaire
1746
Conduct of life · Readers
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Записки изъ подполья
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
1864
Fiction · History
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πολιτεία
Πλάτων
1554
Political science · Early works to 1800
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
1855
Manuscripts · United States Civil War, 1861-1865
Biography & Memoir
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Bible
Bible
1200
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) · Glossaries, vocabularies
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
1726
YA · Young adult
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1600
Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) · Quotations
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La Divina Commedia
Dante Alighieri
1472
Poetry (poetic works by one author) · Literatura
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Анна Каренина
Лев Толстой
1876
Fiction · Adultery
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Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery
1908
Fiction · Juvenile fiction
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Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
1656
Antoine (Marcus Antonius) · Assassination
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau
1854
Biography · Homes and haunts
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
1845
Douglass, frederick, 1818-1895 · Biography
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Twelve years a slave
Solomon Northup
1853
Slavery · Plantation life
Economics
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La Poetica
Aristotle
1479
Metaphysics · Early works to 1800
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Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
1848
Communism · Sources
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History
Herodotus
1494
Ancient History · History
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Rights of Man
Thomas Paine
1791
History · Politics and government
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Women and economics
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Tushar Lohia, Michael S. Kimmel, Amy Aronson, Marie Stritt, Aletta H. Jacobs
1898
Economic conditions · Social and moral questions
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Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
1936
survival · slavery
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
Thorstein Veblen
1899
Leisure class · Philosophy
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Du contrat social
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1762
Peace · The State
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Twentieth-Century Classics)
John Maynard Keynes, Jens Hölscher, Matthias Klaes, Anonymous
1919
World War, 1914-1918 · Economic aspects
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Das Kapital
Karl Marx
1867
Economics · Capital
Psychology
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The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
1515
Political science, early works to 1800 · Machiavel, Nicolas, 1469-1527. Prince
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Persuasion
Jane Austen
1789
Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency · Love stories, English
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville
1851
American Sea stories · Mentally ill
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Hard Times
Charles Dickens
1854
Fiction · Social problems
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aric Cushing, Logan Thomas, SparkNotes, Bryan Hunt, A. J. Alexander, Steven Stern, Aileen Oracion, Twisted Classics, Anne Geer, Sara Barkat, Period Time Publishing, Félix Gerónimo, AGUSTIN LOPEZ TOBAJAS, Nicolae Sfetcu, Erminia Passannanti
1892
hp lovecraft · Literature
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
1800
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) · Wessex (england), fiction
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As a man thinketh
James Allen
1902
New Thought · Conduct of life
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Ulysses
James Joyce
1914
Married people · Male friendship
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Saint Francis of Assisi
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
1923
Biography & Autobiography · Nonfiction
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La Poetica
Aristotle
1479
Metaphysics · Early works to 1800
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