Best Books on Philosophy & Big Ideas

The questions that never go away, and the minds that chased them. The top-rated non-fiction to read alongside the philosophy & big ideas documentaries.

1. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder - View on Amazon
2. The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
3. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
4. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
5. Letters from a Stoic by Seneca the Younger (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
6. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
7. Justice by Michael J. Sandel (3.7/5) - View on Amazon
8. The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
9. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
10. The Kybalion by Three Initiates (4.7/5) - View on Amazon
11. A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
12. The great conversation by Norman Melchert (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
13. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton (3.9/5) - View on Amazon
14. Think by Simon Blackburn (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
15. Indian philosophy by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
16. Philosophy here and now by Lewis Vaughn - View on Amazon
17. An introduction to political philosophy by Jonathan Wolff - View on Amazon
18. Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill - View on Amazon
19. Does the center hold? by Donald Palmer - View on Amazon
20. African religions & philosophy by Mbiti, John S. - View on Amazon
21. Questions that matter by Miller, Ed. L. - View on Amazon
22. Marxism by Thomas Sowell - View on Amazon
23. The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book by Donald VanDeVeer - View on Amazon
24. Classics of philosophy by Louis P. Pojman - View on Amazon

Best Books on Great Thinkers

1. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder - View on Amazon
2. The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
3. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
4. Letters from a Stoic by Seneca the Younger (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
5. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
6. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
7. Justice by Michael J. Sandel (3.7/5) - View on Amazon
8. The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt (4.3/5) - View on Amazon