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Books like Discourses and Selected Writings
The best books like Discourses and Selected Writings are Meditations, Letters from a Stoic, and The Daily Stoic. Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus is about stoic philosophy, freedom and control, character and virtue. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius · Philosophy
Meditations is not a book Marcus Aurelius wrote for anyone to read.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Letters from a Stoic
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Seneca · Philosophy
Letters from a Stoic collects a selection of 124 letters that Seneca wrote to his friend Lucilius in the final years of his life, around 65 AD.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - The Daily Stoic
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Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman · Philosophy
The Daily Stoic is a 366-entry collection of meditations drawn from the Stoic philosophers — Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca, and lesser-known figures like Cato and Zeno.
A kindred philosophy read.
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- A Guide to the Good Life
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William Irvine · Philosophy
William Irvine's book is a modern case for reviving Stoic philosophy as a practical guide to living well.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology
Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - A History of Western Philosophy
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A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell · Philosophy
A History of Western Philosophy is Bertrand Russell's single-volume account of Western philosophical thought from the pre-Socratics through Aristotle, the Stoics, medieval Scholasticism, the Renaissance, the empiricists and rationalists, Kant, German Idealism, and the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - A Rulebook for Arguments
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Anthony Weston · Philosophy
A Rulebook for Arguments is Anthony Weston's slim, widely assigned handbook on how to build and judge arguments.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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George Saunders · Philosophy
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is George Saunders's account of the graduate fiction workshop he has taught at Syracuse for over twenty years, organized around seven stories by Tolstoy, Chekhov, Turgenev, and Gogol.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - A Theory of Justice
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John Rawls · Philosophy
A Theory of Justice, published in 1971, is John Rawls's attempt to construct a systematic alternative to utilitarianism in political philosophy.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Anarchy, State, and Utopia
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Robert Nozick · Philosophy
Anarchy, State, and Utopia is Robert Nozick's 1974 response to John Rawls and a foundational text of libertarian political philosophy.
A kindred philosophy read.
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Books like Discourses and Selected Writings: quick answers
What are the best books like Discourses and Selected Writings?
The best books like Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus are Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman, A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Discourses and Selected Writings, such as stoic philosophy, freedom and control, character and virtue.
What should I read after Discourses and Selected Writings?
A natural next read after Discourses and Selected Writings is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. A kindred philosophy read. Other strong choices are Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman, A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine.
What books are similar to Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus?
Discourses and Selected Writings centers on stoic philosophy, freedom and control, character and virtue. Books with a similar feel include Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman, A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, 1984 by George Orwell — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
