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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.

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1	A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 4.22 avg rating — 237,706 ratings score: 2,662, and 27 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 3.67 avg rating — 183,766 ratings score: 2,186, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Why I Write by George Orwell 4.01 avg rating — 13,803 ratings score: 2,040, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell 3.83 avg rating — 8,146 ratings score: 2,023, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli 3.84 avg rating — 364,295 ratings score: 1,873, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus 4.18 avg rating — 78,670 ratings score: 1,719, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 3.91 avg rating — 25,917 ratings score: 1,649, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Utopia by Thomas More 3.55 avg rating — 79,641 ratings score: 1,572, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 4.28 avg rating — 306,425 ratings score: 1,411, and 15 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Art of War by Tzu Sun 3.95 avg rating — 538,433 ratings score: 1,336, and 14 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin 3.90 avg rating — 1,190 ratings score: 1,293, and 14 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu 4.29 avg rating — 173,061 ratings score: 1,288, and 14 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Common Sense by Thomas Paine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38,034 ratings score: 1,207, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,112 ratings score: 1,167, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	On the Shortness of Life by Seneca 4.17 avg rating — 41,582 ratings score: 1,145, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	On Liberty by John Stuart Mill 3.96 avg rating — 41,113 ratings score: 1,115, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Some Thoughts on the Common Toad by George Orwell 3.90 avg rating — 697 ratings score: 1,006, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Symposium by Plato 4.09 avg rating — 83,601 ratings score: 997, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Eichmann and the Holocaust by Hannah Arendt 4.09 avg rating — 918 ratings score: 983, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Meditations by René Descartes 3.74 avg rating — 28,175 ratings score: 976, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan 3.79 avg rating — 4,106 ratings score: 902, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Silly Novels by Lady Novelists by George Eliot 3.59 avg rating — 680 ratings score: 891, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.32 avg rating — 6,927 ratings score: 876, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3.79 avg rating — 54,532 ratings score: 866, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin 4.25 avg rating — 9,073 ratings score: 810, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Decline of the English Murder by George Orwell 3.69 avg rating — 1,375 ratings score: 767, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The First Ten Books by Confucius 3.37 avg rating — 282 ratings score: 747, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift 3.46 avg rating — 2,020 ratings score: 734, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne 3.67 avg rating — 1,308 ratings score: 728, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln 4.26 avg rating — 47 ratings score: 712, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Confessions of a Sinner by Augustine of Hippo 3.64 avg rating — 359 ratings score: 694, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Why Look at Animals? by John Berger 3.85 avg rating — 1,412 ratings score: 674, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Night Walks by Charles Dickens 3.45 avg rating — 987 ratings score: 666, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	A Confession by Leo Tolstoy 4.10 avg rating — 18,155 ratings score: 662, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Where I Lived, and What I Lived For by Henry David Thoreau 3.79 avg rating — 1,437 ratings score: 659, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud 3.80 avg rating — 42,887 ratings score: 642, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Days of Reading by Marcel Proust 3.64 avg rating — 3,598 ratings score: 639, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Why I Am So Wise by Frederich Nietzsche 3.61 avg rating — 1,915 ratings score: 609, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey 3.28 avg rating — 10,673 ratings score: 592, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Of Human Freedom by Epictetus 4.16 avg rating — 1,054 ratings score: 574, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid by Virginia Woolf 4.02 avg rating — 278 ratings score: 552, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin 4.08 avg rating — 23,527 ratings score: 519, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt 3.60 avg rating — 957 ratings score: 511, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson 3.78 avg rating — 6,074 ratings score: 490, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion by Arthur Schopenhauer 3.90 avg rating — 913 ratings score: 470, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard 4.09 avg rating — 11,532 ratings score: 460, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Fastidious Assassins by Albert Camus 3.74 avg rating — 292 ratings score: 459, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer 3.87 avg rating — 2,939 ratings score: 428, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan by Marco Polo 3.46 avg rating — 263 ratings score: 420, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne 3.62 avg rating — 1,080 ratings score: 412, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom by Marcus Tullius Cicero 3.82 avg rating — 225 ratings score: 405, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson 3.67 avg rating — 483 ratings score: 372, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	On Suicide by David Hume 3.56 avg rating — 999 ratings score: 370, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Anarchist Communism by Pyotr Kropotkin 3.84 avg rating — 583 ratings score: 368, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Revelation and The Book of Job by Anonymous 3.15 avg rating — 54 ratings score: 354, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Of the Abuse of Words by John Locke 3.61 avg rating — 254 ratings score: 354, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	The Perpetual Race of Achilles & the Tortoise by Jorge Luis Borges 4.07 avg rating — 332 ratings score: 345, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Christians and the Fall of Rome by Edward Gibbon 3.50 avg rating — 413 ratings score: 337, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	In Consolation to His Wife by Plutarch 3.91 avg rating — 119 ratings score: 335, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Great Ideas On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings by William James 3.68 avg rating — 136 ratings score: 335, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End by Winston S. Churchill 4.16 avg rating — 153 ratings score: 334, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	On Art and Life by John Ruskin 3.83 avg rating — 1,100 ratings score: 329, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Great Ideas Writings From the Zen by Wumen Huikai 3.60 avg rating — 368 ratings score: 329, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Some Anatomies of Melancholy by Robert Burton 3.10 avg rating — 81 ratings score: 314, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe by Leon Trotsky 3.67 avg rating — 339 ratings score: 314, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Of the Dawn of Freedom by W.E.B. Du Bois 3.89 avg rating — 61 ratings score: 305, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	An Image of Africa / The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe 3.95 avg rating — 720 ratings score: 304, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Conspicuous Consumption by Thorstein Veblen 3.65 avg rating — 557 ratings score: 301, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Urne Burial by Thomas Browne 4.11 avg rating — 496 ratings score: 299, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud 3.76 avg rating — 7,059 ratings score: 288, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant 3.83 avg rating — 2,898 ratings score: 277, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	On Power by William Shakespeare 3.28 avg rating — 43 ratings score: 253, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	Revolution and War by Karl Marx 3.59 avg rating — 110 ratings score: 250, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche 3.77 avg rating — 1,025 ratings score: 239, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	Concerning Violence by Frantz Fanon 4.15 avg rating — 234 ratings score: 228, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	Of Man by Thomas Hobbes 3.50 avg rating — 228 ratings score: 225, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	Of Empire by Francis Bacon 3.33 avg rating — 188 ratings score: 223, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl 3.51 avg rating — 1,647 ratings score: 223, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	Great Ideas Human Happiness by Blaise Pascal 3.65 avg rating — 342 ratings score: 215, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	The Wolfman by Sigmund Freud 3.56 avg rating — 537 ratings score: 215, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	The Executioner by Joseph de Maistre 3.64 avg rating — 81 ratings score: 197, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays by Oscar Wilde 3.96 avg rating — 2,365 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	The Inner Life by Thomas à Kempis 3.66 avg rating — 331 ratings score: 187, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	Three Japanese Buddhist Monks by Saigyō 3.79 avg rating — 392 ratings score: 185, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe 3.85 avg rating — 9,606 ratings score: 183, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	The Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino 3.72 avg rating — 134 ratings score: 171, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books by Georges Perec 3.74 avg rating — 372 ratings score: 168, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	The Evils of Revolution by Edmund Burke 3.48 avg rating — 173 ratings score: 159, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	Sensation and Sex by Lucretius 3.42 avg rating — 109 ratings score: 144, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	Great Ideas V Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore 4.06 avg rating — 2,540 ratings score: 144, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	The Painter of Modern Life by Charles Baudelaire 3.91 avg rating — 1,993 ratings score: 143, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	Great Ideas Miracles and Idolatry by Voltaire 3.62 avg rating — 290 ratings score: 132, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	Useful Work versus Useless Toil by William Morris 3.86 avg rating — 465 ratings score: 122, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	The Tao of Nature by Zhuangzi 4.05 avg rating — 336 ratings score: 109, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer by Aristotle 3.57 avg rating — 174 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	On the Nature of War by Carl von Clausewitz 3.47 avg rating — 122 ratings score: 99, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	Reflections On The Guillotine by Albert Camus 4.10 avg rating — 2,312 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger 3.93 avg rating — 539 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	How to Achieve True Greatness by Baldassare Castiglione 3.28 avg rating — 108 ratings score: 95, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. by Friedrich Nietzsche 3.84 avg rating — 921 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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