Publisher SeriesPenguin Great Ideas

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On the Shortness of Life [and other works] by Seneca 2,019 copies, 38 reviews1
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 13,030 copies, 132 reviews2
Confessions of a Sinner by St. Augustine 370 copies, 5 reviews3
The Inner Life by Thomas à Kempis 395 copies, 2 reviews4
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli 22,263 copies, 245 reviews5
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne 547 copies, 9 reviews6
A Tale of A Tub by Jonathan Swift 545 copies, 12 reviews7
On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 5,110 copies, 47 reviews8
The Christians and the Fall of Rome by Edward Gibbon 414 copies, 1 review9
Common Sense by Thomas Paine 4,800 copies, 55 reviews10
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 3,744 copies, 30 reviews11
On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt 621 copies, 8 reviews12
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 14,109 copies, 138 reviews13
On The Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer 479 copies, 3 reviews14
On Art and Life by John Ruskin 609 copies, 5 reviews15
On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin 554 copies, 4 reviews16
Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche 731 copies, 3 reviews17
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 11,656 copies, 155 reviews18
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud 5,366 copies, 41 reviews19
Why I Write - essay by George Orwell 1,743 copies, 19 reviews20
The First Ten Books by Confucius 124 copies, 1 review21
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 21,614 copies, 234 reviews22
The Symposium by Plato 6,183 copies, 68 reviews23
Sensation and Sex by Lucretius 97 copies24
An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom by Marcus Cicero 130 copies25
The Revelation of St John the Divine: AND The Book of Job (Penguin Great Ideas) by King James Bible 1611 76 copies26
Travels in the Land of Kublai Khan by Marco Polo 108 copies27
The City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan 264 copies, 3 reviews28
How to Achieve True Greatness by Baldassare Castiglione 176 copies29
Of Empire by Francis Bacon 217 copies30
Of Man by Thomas Hobbes 122 copies31
Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk by Sir Thomas Browne 216 copies, 3 reviews32
Miracles and Idolatry by Voltaire 147 copies, 2 reviews33
On Suicide by David Hume 201 copies, 1 review34
On the Nature of War by Carl von Clausewitz 109 copies, 3 reviews35
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard 3,860 copies, 32 reviews36
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For by Henry David Thoreau 316 copies, 1 review37
Conspicuous Consumption by Thorstein Veblen 371 copies, 2 reviews38
The Myth of Sisyphus [essay] by Albert Camus 2,122 copies, 19 reviews39
Eichmann and the Holocaust by Hannah Arendt 370 copies, 5 reviews40
In Consolation to His Wife by Plutarch 61 copies, 1 review41
Some Anatomies of Melancholy by Robert Burton 100 copies, 1 review42
Human Happiness by Blaise Pascal 116 copies, 1 review43
The Invisible Hand by Adam Smith 148 copies44
The Evils of Revolution by Edmund Burke 101 copies45
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson 133 copies46
The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard 2,122 copies, 15 reviews47
The Lamp of Memory by John Ruskin 106 copies48
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche 113 copies, 1 review49
A Confession by Leo Tolstoy 758 copies, 22 reviews50
Useful Work versus Useless Toil by William Morris 126 copies51
The Significance of the Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner 154 copies52
Days of Reading by Marcel Proust 326 copies, 3 reviews53
An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe by Leon Trotsky 138 copies, 1 review54
The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud 1,651 copies, 15 reviews55
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin 813 copies, 11 reviews56
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell 585 copies, 14 reviews57
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus 3,951 copies, 24 reviews58
Concerning Violence by Frantz Fanon 47 copies59
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault 6,303 copies, 38 reviews60
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu 17,357 copies, 209 reviews61
Writings from the Zen Masters by Paul Reps 73 copies, 1 review62
Utopia by Thomas More 11,191 copies, 109 reviews63
On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne 150 copies, 4 reviews64
On Power by William Shakespeare 48 copies65
Of the Abuse of Words by John Locke 89 copies66
Consolation in the Face of Death by Samuel Johnson 42 copies, 1 review67
An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?' by Immanuel Kant 275 copies, 4 reviews68
The Executioner by Joseph de Maistre 40 copies, 2 reviews69
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey 1,845 copies, 30 reviews70
The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion by Arthur Schopenhauer 116 copies, 2 reviews71
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln 720 copies, 10 reviews72
Revolution and War by Karl Marx 53 copies, 1 review73
The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1,123 copies, 6 reviews74
On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings by William James 44 copies, 1 review75
An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson 205 copies, 2 reviews76
Of the Dawn of Freedom by W. E. B. Du Bois 33 copies77
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid by Virginia Woolf 65 copies78
Decline of the English Murder by George Orwell 137 copies, 1 review79
Why Look at Animals? by John Berger 136 copies, 3 reviews80
The Tao of Nature by Chuang Tzu 43 copies81
Of Human Freedom by Epictetus 67 copies, 2 reviews82
On Conspiracies by Niccolò Machiavelli 47 copies, 1 review83
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes 3,703 copies, 26 reviews84
Dialogue Between Fashion and Death by Giacomo Leopardi 40 copies85
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill 5,251 copies, 35 reviews86
Hosts of Living Forms (Penguin Great Ideas) by Charles Darwin 21 copies87
Night Walks (Penguin Great Ideas) by Charles Dickens 153 copies, 6 reviews88
Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions by Charles Mackay 35 copies89
The State as a Work of Art by Jacob Burckhardt 39 copies90
Silly Novels by Lady Novelists by George Eliot 64 copies91
The Painter of Modern Life by Charles Baudelaire 408 copies92
The Wolfman by Sigmund Freud 75 copies93
The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl 372 copies, 7 reviews94
Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore 161 copies, 3 reviews95
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Ilʹič Lenin 914 copies, 10 reviews96
We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End by Winston S. Churchill 29 copies97
The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise by Jorge Luis Borges 102 copies, 1 review98
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad by George Orwell 88 copies, 3 reviews99
An Image of Africa / The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe 69 copies, 2 reviews100
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer by Aristotle 17 copies101
God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. (Penguin Great Ideas) by Friedrich Nietzsche 32 copies, 1 review107
The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde 141 copies, 2 reviews108
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books by Georges Perec 112 copies, 3 reviews119

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