Pensees
Collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal
philosophical
The Sea, the Sea
Novel by Iris Murdoch
The Man Without Qualities
Unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil
The Magic Mountain
Novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature
Life of Pi
Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, an Indian Tamil boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of spirituality and metaphysics from an early age
The Metaphysical Club
Conversational philosophical club that the future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the philosopher and psychologist William James, and philosophers John Dewey and Charles Sanders Peirce formed in January 1872 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dissolved in December 1872
The Prince
16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli as an instruction guide for new princes and royals
The Glass Bead Game
Last full-length novel by the German author Hermann Hesse
Brave New World
Dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story’s protagonist
Stranger in a Strange Land
1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein