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Phaedo
Phaedo is a dialogue by Plato that depicts the final hours of Socrates before his execution by hemlock poisoning in 399 BCE. Set in Socrates's prison cell, the dialogue presents four arguments for the immortality of the soul, including the theory of recollection and the concept of forms. The narrati...
apps Top Phaedo Alternatives
The top alternative to Phaedo in 2026 is Labyrinths (Borges) with a score of 9.67/10, followed by Austerlitz (9.47) and The Drowned and the Saved (9.41).
Labyrinths (Borges)
Published in 1962, Labyrinths gathers stories and essays by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges in an English-language an...
Austerlitz
Austerlitz is a 2001 novel by W. G. Sebald, written in German and narrated through the recollections of Jacques Austerli...
The Drowned and the Saved
First published in Italian in 1986, Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved is a work of nonfiction grounded in his exper...
The Republic
Written by Plato around 375 BCE, The Republic uses a Socratic dialogue to ask what justice means and whether a just life...
Symposium
At an Athenian banquet, the guests in Plato's Symposium take turns praising and explaining love, or eros. Likely compose...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, follows a Russian judicial official whose terminal illn...
The Aleph
First published in 1949, Jorge Luis Borges's The Aleph is a short story collection in which speculative ideas become com...
In Search of Lost Time
Published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time follows a narrator through Fren...
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil's unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities began appearing in 1930 and follows life in Vienna and the Aus...
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, published in 1973, sets its sprawling narrative primarily in Europe near the end of...
Jesus' Son
Jesus' Son is a 1992 collection of linked short stories by American writer Denis Johnson. The book follows a recurring,...
The Invention of Morel
The Invention of Morel is a 1940 novella by Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares. Its narrator encounters a group of peo...
Rameau's Nephew
Rameau's Nephew is a philosophical dialogue by French Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot, composed between 1761 and 177...
The Death of Virgil
The Death of Virgil is a 1945 novel by Austrian author Hermann Broch. The narrative takes place over the final eighteen...
Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot's picaresque novel *Jacques the Fatalist* was written during the 1770s and 1780s, though not published unt...
Pincher Martin
Pincher Martin is a 1956 philosophical novel by British author William Golding that explores themes of survival, isolati...
All Men Are Mortal
All Men Are Mortal is a 1946 novel by French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Its central figure, Raymond Fosc...
Death with Interruptions
Death with Interruptions is a novel by the Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago, originally published in 2005. The na...
Thomas the Obscure
Thomas the Obscure is a philosophical novel by the French author Maurice Blanchot, originally published in 1941 and late...
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan is a 1939 satirical philosophical novel written by Aldous Huxley. Set primarily in Cal...
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