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ConfessionsAugustine · 397-400On 9 lists Meditations on First PhilosophyRené Descartes · 1641On 8 lists PhaedoPlato · c. 380 BCEOn 7 lists EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 1580-1595On 7 lists PenséesBlaise Pascal · 1657On 7 lists HamletWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1600On 6 lists Discourse on MethodRené Descartes · 1637On 6 lists FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808On 6 lists Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift · 1726On 5 lists Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant · 1781On 5 lists Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 1813On 5 lists Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche · 1886On 5 lists To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf · 1927On 5 lists PhaedrusPlato · c. 370 BCEOn 4 lists TimaeusPlato · c. 360 BCEOn 4 lists On the SoulAristotle · c. 350 BCEOn 4 lists MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · c. 170-180On 4 lists The EnneadsPlotinus · c. 253On 4 lists Phenomenology of SpiritG. W. F. Hegel · 1807On 4 lists Fear and TremblingSøren Kierkegaard · 1843On 4 lists The Souls of Black FolkW. E. B. Du Bois · 1903On 4 lists Civilization and Its DiscontentsSigmund Freud · 1930On 4 lists The Second SexSimone de Beauvoir · 1949On 4 lists If Not, Winter: Fragments of SapphoSappho · c. 600 BCEOn 3 lists MetamorphosesOvid · 8 CEOn 3 lists Richard IIWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1595On 3 lists OthelloWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1603-1604On 3 lists SonnetsWilliam Shakespeare · 1609On 3 lists An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 1689On 3 lists MonadologyGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1714On 3 lists A Treatise of Human NatureDavid Hume · 1739-1740On 3 lists EmmaJane Austen · 1815On 3 lists Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844Karl Marx · 1844On 3 lists Philosophical FragmentsSøren Kierkegaard · 1844On 3 lists Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert · 1857On 3 lists The Descent of ManCharles Darwin · 1871On 3 lists A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen · 1879On 3 lists Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · 1899On 3 lists A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce · 1916On 3 lists Introductory Lectures on PsychoanalysisSigmund Freud · 1916-1917On 3 lists TheaetetusPlato · c. 365 BCEOn 2 lists Gospel of JohnThe Bible · c. 90-110 CEOn 2 lists The Story of Hayy ibn YaqzanIbn Tufayl · c. 1160-1185On 2 lists Troilus and CriseydeGeoffrey Chaucer · c. 1382-1386On 2 lists As You Like ItWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1599On 2 lists Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1601On 2 lists Life of Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell · 1791On 2 lists PoemsWilliam Wordsworth · 1798-1850On 2 lists FrankensteinMary Shelley · 1818On 2 lists EssaysRalph Waldo Emerson · 1841 and 1844On 2 lists Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass · 1845On 2 lists The German IdeologyKarl Marx · 1845On 2 lists The Wild DuckHenrik Ibsen · 1884On 2 lists Hedda GablerHenrik Ibsen · 1890On 2 lists The Principles of PsychologyWilliam James · 1890On 2 lists The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud · 1899On 2 lists Five Lectures on Psycho-AnalysisSigmund Freud · 1910On 2 lists The Problems of PhilosophyBertrand Russell · 1912On 2 lists Swann's WayMarcel Proust · 1913On 2 lists DublinersJames Joyce · 1914On 2 lists Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleSigmund Freud · 1920On 2 lists New Introductory Lectures on PsychoanalysisSigmund Freud · 1933On 2 lists Introduction to MetaphysicsMartin Heidegger · 1935On 2 lists Song of SolomonToni Morrison · 1977On 2 lists Minor Biological Works (Parva Naturalia)Aristotle · c. 350 BCEOn 1 list Buddhist WritingsAnonymous · c. 3rd c. BCEOn 1 list The Bhagavad GitaAnonymous · c. 2nd c. BCEOn 1 list Gospel of ThomasAnonymous · c. 60-140 CEOn 1 list BodhicaryavataraShantideva · c. 700 CEOn 1 list An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox FaithJohn of Damascus · c. 743On 1 list On the IntellectAl-Kindi · c. 850On 1 list On the IntellectAl-Farabi · c. 940On 1 list The CureAvicenna (Ibn Sina) · c. 1020-1027On 1 list The Rescuer from ErrorAl-Ghazali · c. 1108On 1 list The Translator of DesiresIbn Arabi · c. 1215On 1 list The Journey of the Mind to GodBonaventure · 1259On 1 list The New LifeDante Alighieri · c. 1293-1295On 1 list The Ascent of Mont VentouxPetrarch · 1336On 1 list The Imitation of ChristThomas à Kempis · c. 1418-1427On 1 list The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniBenvenuto Cellini · 1558On 1 list Table-TalkMartin Luther · 1531On 1 list The Interior CastleTeresa of Ávila · 1577On 1 list The Taming of the ShrewWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1590-1592On 1 list The Comedy of ErrorsWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1594On 1 list Troilus and CressidaWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1602On 1 list PoemsJohn Donne · c. 1590On 1 list Life Is a DreamPedro Calderón de la Barca · 1635On 1 list Objections Against the Meditations and RepliesRené Descartes · 1641-1642On 1 list Correspondence with DescartesElisabeth of Bohemia · 1643-1649On 1 list Religio MediciThomas Browne · 1643On 1 list The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern PhilosophyAnne Conway · c. 1670On 1 list New Essays Concerning Human UnderstandingGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1704On 1 list Journal to StellaJonathan Swift · 1710On 1 list Principles of Nature and GraceGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1714On 1 list Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe · 1719On 1 list Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardThomas Gray · 1751On 1 list The Theory of Moral SentimentsAdam Smith · 1759On 1 list Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne · 1759-1767On 1 list Rameau's NephewDenis Diderot · c. 1761On 1 list London JournalJames Boswell · 1762On 1 list A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyLaurence Sterne · 1768On 1 list She Stoops to ConquerOliver Goldsmith · 1773On 1 list The School for ScandalRichard Brinsley Sheridan · 1777On 1 list The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin · 1771On 1 list A Letter to a Noble LordEdmund Burke · 1796On 1 list Lyrical BalladsWilliam Wordsworth · 1798On 1 list Poetry and TruthJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1811-1833On 1 list The Prisoner of ChillonLord Byron · 1816On 1 list Biographia LiterariaSamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817On 1 list ManfredLord Byron · 1817On 1 list JournalRalph Waldo Emerson · 1820-1882On 1 list Romantic Poetry ReaderVarious authors · c. 1789-1832On 1 list On LoveStendhal · 1822On 1 list Of Persons One Would Wish to Have SeenWilliam Hazlitt · 1826On 1 list The Red and the BlackStendhal · 1830On 1 list CharacteristicsThomas Carlyle · 1831On 1 list Eugénie GrandetHonoré de Balzac · 1833On 1 list PoemsSamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1796-1834On 1 list TalesHans Christian Andersen · 1835-1872On 1 list Byron and GoetheGiuseppe Mazzini · 1839On 1 list The Essence of ChristianityLudwig Feuerbach · 1841On 1 list PoemsRobert Browning · 1842-1864On 1 list David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · 1849-1850On 1 list Representative MenRalph Waldo Emerson · 1850On 1 list The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne · 1850On 1 list Studies in PessimismArthur Schopenhauer · 1851On 1 list WaldenHenry David Thoreau · 1854On 1 list Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman · 1855On 1 list PoemsMatthew Arnold · 1849-1867On 1 list AutobiographyJohn Stuart Mill · 1873On 1 list Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche · 1883-1885On 1 list Time and Free WillHenri Bergson · 1889On 1 list The Master BuilderHenrik Ibsen · 1892On 1 list Selected Papers on HysteriaSigmund Freud · 1893-1909On 1 list Matter and MemoryHenri Bergson · 1896On 1 list Uncle VanyaAnton Chekhov · 1897On 1 list The Varieties of Religious ExperienceWilliam James · 1902On 1 list An Introduction to MetaphysicsHenri Bergson · 1903On 1 list The AmbassadorsHenry James · 1903On 1 list The Beast in the JungleHenry James · 1903On 1 list Creative EvolutionHenri Bergson · 1907On 1 list The Mysterious StrangerMark Twain · 1897On 1 list Death in VeniceThomas Mann · 1912On 1 list Essays in Radical EmpiricismWilliam James · 1904On 1 list PygmalionGeorge Bernard Shaw · 1912On 1 list In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust · 1913-1927On 1 list On NarcissismSigmund Freud · 1914On 1 list Remembering, Repeating and Working-ThroughSigmund Freud · 1914On 1 list The Prussian OfficerD. H. Lawrence · 1914On 1 list The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka · 1915On 1 list The UnconsciousSigmund Freud · 1915On 1 list A General Introduction to Psycho-AnalysisSigmund Freud · 1916-1917On 1 list Mourning and MelancholiaSigmund Freud · 1917On 1 list Group Psychology and the Analysis of the EgoSigmund Freud · 1921On 1 list Six Characters in Search of an AuthorLuigi Pirandello · 1921On 1 list The Analysis of MindBertrand Russell · 1921On 1 list UlyssesJames Joyce · 1922On 1 list Skepticism and Animal FaithGeorge Santayana · 1923On 1 list The Ego and the IdSigmund Freud · 1923On 1 list The Magic MountainThomas Mann · 1924On 1 list The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925On 1 list The TrialFranz Kafka · 1925On 1 list Inhibitions, Symptoms, and AnxietySigmund Freud · 1926On 1 list The CastleFranz Kafka · 1926On 1 list What Is Metaphysics?Martin Heidegger · 1929On 1 list Joseph and His BrothersThomas Mann · 1933-1943On 1 list The Blue BookLudwig Wittgenstein · 1933-1934On 1 list Analytical PsychologyCarl Jung · 1935On 1 list NauseaJean-Paul Sartre · 1938On 1 list Being and NothingnessJean-Paul Sartre · 1943On 1 list No ExitJean-Paul Sartre · 1944On 1 list Persons and PlacesGeorge Santayana · 1944-1953On 1 list What Is Life?Erwin Schrödinger · 1944On 1 list If This Is a ManPrimo Levi · 1947On 1 list Invisible ManRalph Ellison · 1952On 1 list The Long LonelinessDorothy Day · 1952On 1 list Philosophical InvestigationsLudwig Wittgenstein · 1953On 1 list A Raisin in the SunLorraine Hansberry · 1959On 1 list The Wretched of the EarthFrantz Fanon · 1961On 1 list Cancer WardAleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968On 1 list Discipline and PunishMichel Foucault · 1975On 1 list A Black Feminist StatementCombahee River Collective · 1977On 1 list BelovedToni Morrison · 1987On 1 list OmerosDerek Walcott · 1990On 1 list CitizenClaudia Rankine · 2014On 1 list