LibreReads
[Beta]
Search
Scientists and Philosophers
1.
Einstein: His Life and Universe
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.17 avg rating — 197,580 ratings
2.
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
by:
James Gleick
4.12 avg rating — 24,100 ratings
3.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by:
Thomas S. Kuhn
4.03 avg rating — 29,127 ratings
4.
Tesla: Man Out of Time
by:
Margaret Cheney
3.70 avg rating — 6,481 ratings
5.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman/What Do You Care What Other People Think?
by:
Richard P. Feynman
4.28 avg rating — 388 ratings
6.
The Undiscovered Self
by:
C.G. Jung
4.14 avg rating — 12,362 ratings
7.
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
by:
Daniel J. Boorstin
4.11 avg rating — 11,776 ratings
8.
The Prophet
by:
Kahlil Gibran
4.23 avg rating — 321,135 ratings
9.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
by:
Ray Monk
4.15 avg rating — 6,565 ratings
10.
Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil
by:
Rüdiger Safranski
3.87 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
11.
Arthur Schopenhauer: de woelige jaren van de filosofie
by:
Rüdiger Safranski
4.24 avg rating — 440 ratings
12.
Men of Mathematics
by:
Eric Temple Bell
4.09 avg rating — 2,068 ratings
13.
FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
by:
Jeremy Griffith
3.66 avg rating — 388 ratings
14.
Nietzsche: Een biografie van zijn denken
by:
Rüdiger Safranski
4.10 avg rating — 1,255 ratings
15.
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
by:
Richard P. Feynman
4.19 avg rating — 30,241 ratings
16.
Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work
by:
Gary Lachman
3.95 avg rating — 288 ratings
17.
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
by:
Werner Heisenberg
4.03 avg rating — 3,053 ratings
18.
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
by:
Cheryl Misak
4.24 avg rating — 293 ratings
19.
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
by:
Neil deGrasse Tyson
3.87 avg rating — 7,143 ratings
19.
Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976
by:
Heinrich Wiegand Petzet
3.68 avg rating — 917 ratings
21.
Madame Curie: A Biography
by:
Ève Curie
4.37 avg rating — 4,982 ratings
22.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
by:
Karl Popper
4.03 avg rating — 5,360 ratings
23.
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
by:
John Gribbin
4.11 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
23.
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating — 55,478 ratings
25.
The Tales of Astro Cat
by:
Davis Horner
4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
26.
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
by:
Richard A. Muller
4.03 avg rating — 2,513 ratings
26.
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
by:
Lauren Redniss
4.02 avg rating — 6,059 ratings
28.
Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother
by:
James A. Connor
3.67 avg rating — 486 ratings
29.
Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens
by:
Kitty Ferguson
4.10 avg rating — 311 ratings
30.
In My Own Way: An Autobiography
by:
Alan W. Watts
4.18 avg rating — 1,275 ratings
31.
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
by:
Robert Kanigel
4.03 avg rating — 8,788 ratings
32.
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
by:
Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating — 10,629 ratings
33.
The Meaning of Relativity
by:
Albert Einstein
4.29 avg rating — 924 ratings
34.
Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
by:
Stephen R.C. Hicks
3.88 avg rating — 1,911 ratings
35.
Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought
by:
William J. Richardson
4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
35.
WHY GOD SLEEPS WHEN WE WAKE-UP
by:
Ramzi Najjar
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
37.
The Essential Writings
by:
Epictetus
4.22 avg rating — 218 ratings
37.
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
by:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.61 avg rating — 7,318 ratings
37.
THE EGO PILL: Why Self-Importance Nourishes US, Only to Devour Us Later
by:
Ramzi Najjar
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
40.
Awakenings
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.09 avg rating — 13,804 ratings
40.
Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
by:
Abraham Pais
4.34 avg rating — 1,895 ratings
42.
Archimedes' Revenge
by:
Paul Hoffman
3.73 avg rating — 197 ratings
42.
Skeptical Chemist: The Story of Robert Boyle
by:
Roberta Baxter
3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
44.
Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras
by:
John Strohmeier
3.91 avg rating — 98 ratings
45.
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
by:
Lisa Jardine
3.77 avg rating — 321 ratings
45.
The Mismeasure of Man
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.05 avg rating — 9,212 ratings
47.
The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview
by:
Asa Don Brown
4.36 avg rating — 55 ratings
47.
The Republic
by:
Plato
3.96 avg rating — 220,212 ratings
47.
Jung for Beginners
by:
Joe Platania
3.56 avg rating — 155 ratings
50.
An Introduction to Anthroposophy: Rudolf Steiner's World View
by:
Francis Edmunds
4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings
50.
The Cantor Dimension
by:
Sharon Delarose
3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
50.
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
by:
Sam Harris
3.90 avg rating — 42,926 ratings
53.
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by:
Simon Singh
4.30 avg rating — 28,489 ratings
54.
The Prince
by:
Niccolò Machiavelli
3.84 avg rating — 371,429 ratings
55.
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by:
Jimmy Soni
4.16 avg rating — 2,735 ratings
56.
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.05 avg rating — 27,035 ratings
57.
The Music of Pythagoras: How an Ancient Brotherhood Cracked the Code of the Universe and Lit the Path From Antiquity to Outer Space
by:
Kitty Ferguson
3.76 avg rating — 147 ratings
57.
Beyond Good and Evil
by:
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.03 avg rating — 109,327 ratings
59.
Apology
by:
Plato
4.19 avg rating — 63,758 ratings
60.
How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
by:
Seneca
4.02 avg rating — 2,669 ratings
61.
Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives Of Eccentric Scientists And Madmen
by:
Clifford A. Pickover
3.82 avg rating — 285 ratings
61.
The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?
by:
Jason Hartley
3.56 avg rating — 405 ratings
61.
Body Knowledge: A Path to Wholeness: The Philosophy of Michael Polanyi
by:
David W. Long
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
61.
The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
by:
Rebecca D. Costa
3.97 avg rating — 574 ratings
61.
Yours for Health: The Life and Times of Herbert m Shelton
by:
Jean A. Oswald
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
61.
Control Switch On: A True Story—The Untold Story of the Most Powerful Man in the World—Ryan Moran—Who Shaped the Planet for Peace
by:
Ira Teller
4.26 avg rating — 117 ratings
61.
The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.28 avg rating — 471 ratings
61.
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
by:
Margalit Fox
4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings
61.
The Garden
by:
Robin Craig Clark
3.75 avg rating — 143 ratings
61.
Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to
by:
Wayne Deeker
4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
61.
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Dorothy Roberts
4.25 avg rating — 1,842 ratings
61.
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by:
Richard Holmes
3.97 avg rating — 9,816 ratings
61.
Five minutes to Doomsday (Acoustic Funambulist #2)
by:
Jean-Yves Crozier
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
61.
Hidden Genius: Frank Mann, the Black Engineer behind Howard Hughes
by:
H.T. Bryer
4.14 avg rating — 56 ratings
61.
Pantheisticon: A Modern English Translation
by:
John Toland
3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
61.
The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
by:
Alan Cutler
3.86 avg rating — 974 ratings
61.
Benjamin Franklin: Life and Death
by:
George Roseman
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
61.
Only the Longest Threads
by:
Tasneem Zehra Husain
4.11 avg rating — 80 ratings
61.
30 Days
by:
Joanna Tilsley
4.64 avg rating — 56 ratings
61.
Martin Heidegger's Path of Thinking
by:
Otto Pöggeler
4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings
61.
Vom "Günstling"‘ zum "Urfeind"‘ der Juden: Die antisemitische Nietzsche-Rezeption in Deutschland bis zum Ende des Nationalsozialismus
by:
Thomas Mittmann
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
61.
Science Awakening I: Egyptian, Babylonian and Greek Mathematics
by:
B.L. van der Waerden
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
61.
Derrida for Beginners
by:
James N. Powell
3.78 avg rating — 391 ratings
61.
Religion and the Rebel
by:
Colin Wilson
4.09 avg rating — 243 ratings
61.
The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Jung
by:
Richard Noll
3.54 avg rating — 115 ratings
61.
Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important—and Most Unexpected—Questions
by:
Ian Olasov
3.16 avg rating — 377 ratings
61.
The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
by:
Rupert Sheldrake
4.08 avg rating — 1,874 ratings
61.
The Mindful Brain: Your life-journey of meeting a brain and culture founded psychology, and discovering the mindpower in positive psychology and flow.
by:
Arnon Levy
4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
61.
African-American Inventions That Changed The World: Influential Inventors and Their Revolutionary Creations
by:
Michael A. Carson
4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
61.
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.28 avg rating — 39,746 ratings
61.
Beyond the Edge of the Universe: A Steady Path of Mindfulness and Letting Go
by:
Indu L. Shakya
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
92.
The Transcendental Philosophy of Franklin Merrell-Wolff
by:
Ron Leonard
4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
92.
Flashbacks
by:
Timothy Leary
4.13 avg rating — 740 ratings
92.
Voyager: The Art of Pure Awareness
by:
Robin Craig Clark
3.68 avg rating — 62 ratings
92.
Professor Krylov's Navy
by:
Alexey N. Krylov
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
92.
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris
by:
Andrew Robinson
3.98 avg rating — 228 ratings
92.
Leonardo da Vinci: Life and Death
by:
George Roseman
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
92.
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
by:
Roger Scruton
4.05 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
92.
Foucault for Beginners
by:
Lydia Alix Fillingham
3.67 avg rating — 770 ratings
92.
A Writer's Diary 1873-1881
by:
Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.72 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
Next