Philosophy
Timeless works on meaning, ethics, knowledge and how to live — from ancient thinkers to Enlightenment masters.
57 books, free to read in full.
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
✦Big ideas · 2h 45m
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
✦Big ideas · 3h 50m
Anthem
Ayn Rand
✦Big ideas · 1h 16m
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
✦Big ideas · 4h 7m
Candide
Voltaire
✦Big ideas · 2h 20m
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
✦Big ideas · 1h 28m
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
✦Big ideas · 12h 24m
Discourse on the Method
René Descartes
✦Big ideas · 1h 31m
Discourses of Epictetus
Epictetus
✦Big ideas · 4h 7m
Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
✦Big ideas · 4h 30m
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
✦Big ideas · 4h 56m
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
✦Big ideas · 2h 30m
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
✦Big ideas · 2h 6m
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
✦Big ideas · 8h 6m
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
✦Big ideas · 14h 9m
Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy
✦Big ideas · 5h 11m
Master and Man
Leo Tolstoy
✦Big ideas · 1h 17m
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
✦Big ideas · 4h 47m
Moral Letters to Lucilius
Seneca
✦Big ideas · 13h 59m
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
✦Big ideas · 2h 42m
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
✦Big ideas · 2h 56m
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
✦Big ideas · 3h 11m
On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
✦Big ideas · 3h 27m
On the Happy Life
Seneca
✦Big ideas · 52 min
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
✦Big ideas · 9h 59m
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
✦Big ideas · 44 min
Paradise Lost
John Milton
✦Big ideas · 5h 21m
Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy
✦Big ideas · 11h 30m
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
✦Big ideas · 43 min
The Aeneid
Virgil
✦Big ideas · 7h 10m
The Analects of Confucius
Confucius
✦Big ideas · 1h 57m
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
✦Big ideas · 3h 36m
The Bhagavad Gita
Vyasa
✦Big ideas · 1h 16m
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
✦Big ideas · 23h 20m
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
✦Big ideas · 45 min
The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine of Hippo
✦Big ideas · 7h 27m
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
✦Big ideas · 7h 13m
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
✦Big ideas · 16h 6m
The Iliad
Homer
✦Big ideas · 12h 33m
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks
Vatsyayana
✦Big ideas · 3h 41m
The Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
✦Big ideas · 7h 30m
The Odyssey
Homer
✦Big ideas · 8h 35m
The Possessed
Fyodor Dostoevsky
✦Big ideas · 16h 53m
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
✦Big ideas · 3h 17m
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
✦Big ideas · 2h 50m
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
✦Big ideas · 50 min
The Republic
Plato
✦Big ideas · 7h 53m
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Omar Khayyám
✦Big ideas · 45 min
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
✦Big ideas · 2h 58m
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
✦Big ideas · 4h 34m
The Symposium
Plato
✦Big ideas · 2h 10m
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James
✦Big ideas · 10h 17m
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
✦Big ideas · 25h 21m
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
✦Big ideas · 5h 51m
Utopia
Thomas More
✦Big ideas · 2h 54m
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
✦Big ideas · 7h 43m
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
✦Big ideas · 37h 26m