40 audiobooks
Where to start with philosophy
The most-read works of philosophy, in the order most people meet them.
Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Nietzsche and the rest of the canon, ranked by how widely each book is read today. Listening helps with dense arguments: hear the sentence, see it on screen, go back a line when you need to.
Start with these
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Panopticon; or, The Inspection-House
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The Prince
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The Art of War
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Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
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The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and Its Characteristics
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Free pick
Meditations
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Free pick
The Communist Manifesto
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The Republic
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Leviathan
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Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
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On the Origin of Species
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Free pick
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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The Federalist Papers
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Utopia
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Common Sense
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Autobiography of a Yogi
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The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
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Symposium
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The Kybalion
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The Critique of Pure Reason
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
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Beyond Good and Evil
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Apology
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The Joyful Wisdom
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The Social Contract & Discourses
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Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars)
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Summa Theologica, Part II-II
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The Golden Ass
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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The City of God, Volume I
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The Poetics of Aristotle
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Timaeus
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The Prose Edda
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Second Treatise of Government
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The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
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Phaedrus
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The Imitation of Christ
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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The World as Will and Idea, Volume 1
Good to know
Can I listen for free?
The first chapter of every book plays free with no account. A free account adds the opening chapters of every book, plus one whole book of your choice from a shelf of five classics.
