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12 books with a reading profile close to Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo by Plato. Deep, contemplative and open-ended; a moderate read.

1

The Hymns of the Ṛgveda

by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, Jagdish Lal Shastri

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic

This volume presents the complete English translation of the oldest Sanskrit text, a collection of over one thousand sacrificial hymns addressed to deities such as Indra, Agni, and Varuna.
2

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

by René Descartes

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic

René Descartes establishes a radical epistemological system by rejecting any belief that permits even a grain of doubt.
3

Discourse on Method

by René Descartes

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic

René Descartes outlines a four-part system intended to establish certainty in the sciences by rejecting any premise subject to the slightest doubt.
4

Holy Bible: New International Version

by Anonymous

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

This volume compiles sixty-six distinct books divided into the Old and New Testaments.
5

Bible

by Bible

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

This text spans from the creation of the universe to the final judgment of humanity, documenting the covenant between a monotheistic deity and the people of Israel.
6

The scholemaster

by Roger Ascham

Also deep · philosophy, academic

Roger Ascham’s instructional manual argues for a humane approach to Latin pedagogy, rejecting the physical punishment common in Tudor classrooms.
7

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ

by Joseph Smith Jr.

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

Presented as the record of ancient inhabitants of the Americas, this text begins with the prophet Lehi, who leaves Jerusalem with his family around 600 BC.
8

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

After receiving a prophecy from three witches that he will become King of Scotland, a general named Macbeth murders King Duncan to seize the throne.
9

Phaedrus

by Plato, Alexander Nehamas

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

Plato’s dialogue takes place on a grassy bank outside Athens, where Socrates and Phaedrus examine three speeches concerning the nature of love and the human soul.
10

The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha

by Thomas Shelton, Charles-Antoine Coypel

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

This massive four-volume set reproduces the classic narrative of Alonso Quijano, a country gentleman who loses his mind from reading romances.
11

Rubāʻīyāt

by Omar Khayyam

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

This 1870 edition presents a collection of quatrains attributed to the eleventh-century Persian mathematician Omar Khayyam, translated into English verse by Edward FitzGerald.
12

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

by Albert Camus

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

Albert Camus addresses the tension between the human drive for logic and the silent, irrational universe, a conflict he defines as the Absurd.

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