• Classic Non-Fiction

    Non Fiction Classics

    Most of these titles have been taken from lists of the “great books” of Western Civilization. Some of them may be way too hard to read, so check with me first about trying to read some of these works.
     
     

    The Dhammapada

    The New Testament

    The Upanishads

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    The I Ching

    Adams, Henry

    The Education of Henry Adams

    Aquinas

    Summa Theologicae,

    Aristotle

    Works,

    Bacon

    Novum Organum,

    Bacon,

    Essays

    Berkeley

    The Principles of Human Knowledge,

    Betty Friedan

    The Feminine Mystique,

    Boswell,

    Life of Samuel Johnson

    Buber

    I and Thou,

    Burke

    Reflections on the Revolution in France

    Calvin

    Institutes of the Christian Religion,

    Chomsky

    Syntactic Structures

    Comte

    Course in the Positivist Philosophy,

    Confucius,

    Analects

    Copernicus

    On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs,

    Darwin,

    The Origin of Species

    David Hume

    A Treatise of Human Nature,

    De Beauvoir,

    The Second Sex

    de Tocqueville.

    Democracy in America.

    Descartes,

    Discourse on Method

    Desiderius Erasmus

    In Praise of Folly

    Diderot, ed.

    The Encyclopedia,

    Einstein,

    The Meaning of Relativity

    Emerson,

    Essays

    Euclid

    Elements,

    Francis Bacon

    Novum Organum,

    Frazer,

    The New Golden Bough

    Freud

    The Interpretation of Dreams

    Freud,

    Introduction to Psychoanalysis

    Freud.

    Selected Works.

    Friedan

    The Feminine Mystique,

    Galileo Galilei

    Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems,

    Gibbon

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Godwin

    An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice,

    Gregor Mendel

    "Experiments with Plant Hybrids,"

    Hamilton, et al.,

    Federalist Papers

    Hegel George Wilhelm Friedrich

    Phenomenology of Spirit,

    Herodotus

    History,

    Hippocrates

    Works,

    Hobbes.

    Leviathan.

    Hume

    A Treatise of Human Nature,

    Hume.

    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

    James William

    Pragmatism

    James, William

    The Principles of Psychology; Pragmatism and Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth; The Varieties of Religious Experience.

    Johnson

    A Dictionary of the English Language,

    Jung

    Psychological Types

    Kant,

    Critique of Pure Reason

    Kepler

    The Harmony of the World,

    Keynes

    The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

    Kierkegaard

    Either/Or,

    Kuhn

    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    Lao-Tzu,

    The Way and Its Power

    Leibniz

    Works,

    Locke,

    Essay Concering Human Understanding

    Locke.

    Second Treatise of Government.

    Lucretius

    On the Nature of Reality,

    Lucretius,

    On the Nature of Things

    Luther

    On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

    Machiavelli,

    The Prince

    Malthus

    An Essay on the Principle of Population

    Marx and Friedrich Engels.

    The Communist Manifesto.

    Marx,

    Capital

    Maxwell, James Clerk

    Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

    Mill.

    On Liberty.

    Montaigne,

    Essays

    Moses Maimonides

    Guide for the Perplexed,

    Newton

    Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy,

    Nietzsche

    Thus Spake Zarathustra

    Nietzsche,

    The Will to Power

    Paine

    Common Sense,

    Paine,

    The Rights of Man

    Pareto Vilfredo

    The Mind and Society

    Pascal

    Pensées,

    Philo of Alexandria

    Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws,

    Plato

    The Republic,

    Plutarch

    Lives,

    Popper

    The Logic of Scientific Discovery

    Rousseau

    Confessions,

    Rousseau,

    The Social Contract

    Sartre

    Being and Nothingness

    Schopenhauer

    The World as Will and Idea,

    Skinner

    Beyond Freedom and Dignity

    Smith,

    The Wealth of Nations

    Spencer

    First Principles

    Spinoza,

    Ethics

    Tacitus

    Annals, from the Death of the Divine Augustus,

    Thoreau

    "Civil Disobedience,"

    Thoreau,

    Walden

    Thucydides

    History of the Peloponnesian War,

    Vico

    The New Science,

    von Clausewitz

    On War,

    von Hayek

    The Road to Serfdom,

    Wiener

    Cybernetics

    Wittgenstein

    Philosophical Investigations

    Wollstonecraft

    Vindication of the Rights of Women

Last Modified on September 26, 2016