Philosophy · Similar reads
Books like Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching by Laozi is about the tao, wu wei, simplicity. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Analects
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Confucius · Philosophy
The Analects (Lunyu) is the primary source for Confucian thought — a compilation of sayings, brief dialogues, and anecdotes attributed to Confucius (551–479 BCE) and his disciples, assembled over generations after his death.
Read the summary → - The Bhagavad Gita
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Anonymous · Religion & Spirituality
The Bhagavad Gita — the Song of the Lord — is an episode embedded in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, composed between the 5th and 2nd centuries BCE.
Read the summary → - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
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Shunryu Suzuki · Religion & Spirituality
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is a collection of informal talks given by Shunryu Suzuki to his students at the San Francisco Zen Center in the late 1960s, edited and compiled by Trudy Dixon and published in 1970.
Read the summary → - The Way of Zen
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Alan Watts · Religion & Spirituality
The Way of Zen was Alan Watts' most widely read and carefully argued work, published in 1957 at a time when Zen was largely unknown to English-speaking audiences.
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.
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.
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