Topic
Philosophy
65 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Adam Smith: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Adam Smith — how to approach The Wealth of Nations, the foundational text of modern economics. A complete reading guide to the Scottish economist.
Where to Start with Annie Dillard: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Annie Dillard — how to approach Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, her Pulitzer Prize-winning work of nature writing. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Aristotle: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Aristotle — whether to begin with the Nicomachean Ethics or the Poetics. A complete reading guide to the ancient Greek philosopher's essential works.
Where to Start with Barry Schwartz: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Barry Schwartz — how to approach The Paradox of Choice, his essential book on how too much choice makes us worse off. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Bill Perkins: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Bill Perkins — how to approach Die with Zero, his provocative argument for spending wealth on experiences rather than accumulating it. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Byron Katie: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Byron Katie — how to approach Loving What Is, her transcript-based guide to The Work, a four-question inquiry method for dismantling stressful thoughts. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Carlo Rovelli: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Carlo Rovelli — how to approach The Order of Time, his essential meditation on physics and time. A complete reading guide to the Italian physicist.
Where to Start with Charlie Munger: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Charlie Munger — how to approach Poor Charlie's Almanack, his essential collection of speeches and mental models. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with the Dalai Lama: A Reading Guide
Where to start with the Dalai Lama — how to approach The Book of Joy, his essential conversation with Desmond Tutu on lasting happiness. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Dante Alighieri: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Dante Alighieri — how to approach the Divine Comedy. A complete reading guide to the medieval Italian poet and his Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
Where to Start with David R. Hawkins: A Reading Guide
Where to start with David R. Hawkins — how to approach Letting Go, his practical guide to surrendering negative emotions, drawn from decades of clinical psychiatric work. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Don Miguel Ruiz: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Don Miguel Ruiz — how to approach The Four Agreements, his essential guide to personal freedom through Toltec wisdom. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Donald Robertson: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Donald Robertson — how to approach How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, the best practical introduction to Stoicism and its connections to modern cognitive behavioral therapy. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Douglas Hofstadter: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Douglas Hofstadter — how to approach Gödel, Escher, Bach, the Pulitzer Prize-winning meditation on consciousness and self-reference. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Eckhart Tolle: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Eckhart Tolle — whether to begin with The Power of Now or A New Earth. A complete reading guide to the spiritual teacher and author.
Where to Start with Eric Jorgenson: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Eric Jorgenson — how to approach The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, his curated distillation of Naval Ravikant's thinking on wealth, happiness, and judgment. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Kishimi and Koga: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga — how to approach The Courage to Be Disliked, their Socratic dialogue introducing Adlerian psychology and the radical claim that happiness requires the courage to be disliked. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with James Allen: A Reading Guide
Where to start with James Allen — how to approach As a Man Thinketh, his 1903 sixty-eight-page masterwork on thought, character, and the mind as a garden that grows what you plant in it. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with John Milton: A Reading Guide
Where to start with John Milton — how to approach Paradise Lost, the greatest English epic, written blind from memory and dictation, about Satan's fall and the expulsion from Eden. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Kahlil Gibran: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Kahlil Gibran — how to approach The Prophet, his essential collection of prose poems on the nature of life. A complete reading guide.
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