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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Sarah Bakewell
4.02 average rating, · 11.1k ratings
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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
Walter Kaufmann
4.24 average rating, · 7.6k ratings
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
Ray Monk
4.15 average rating, · 6.8k ratings
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AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies
Derek Delgaudio
4.25 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World
Louis Fischer
4.18 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Howard Zinn
4.34 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche
Sue Prideaux
4.30 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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If Truth Be Told: A Monk's Memoir
Om Swami
4.45 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
Lawrence Weschler
4.34 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Sontag: Her Life and Work
Benjamin Moser
4.22 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Tête-à-Tête: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Hazel Rowley
4.14 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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Érasme
Stefan Zweig
4.02 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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River Teeth
David James Duncan
4.05 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
Kate Kirkpatrick
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Freud: A Life for Our Time
Peter Gay
4.16 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Autobiography
Bertrand Russell
4.06 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Conversations with David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
4.17 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
Bruce Lee
4.21 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography
Rüdiger Safranski
4.10 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor
Donald J. Robertson
4.17 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Conversations with Kafka
Gustav Janouch
4.05 average rating, · 1k ratings
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls
4.47 average rating, · 871 ratings
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Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard
Clare Carlisle
4.04 average rating, · 910 ratings
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Emerson: The Mind on Fire
Robert D. Richardson Jr.
4.43 average rating, · 784 ratings
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