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The Republic
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, composed around 375 BCE, that examines the nature of justice and the structure of an ideal political community. Through the character of Socrates, the dialogue argues that a just city would be governed by philosopher-kings—rulers who possess knowledge of...
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The top alternative to The Republic in 2026 is Labyrinths (Borges) with a score of 9.7/10, followed by Austerlitz (9.5) and The Drowned and the Saved (9.4).
Labyrinths (Borges)
Labyrinths is an English-language anthology of stories and essays by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, published in 19...
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
Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved is a nonfiction book first published in Italian in 1986. Drawing on Levi’s experi...
Symposium
Symposium is a dialogue by Plato, likely composed between 385 and 370 BCE, in which several Athenian guests at a banquet...
The Aleph
The Aleph is a short story collection by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in 1949. The title story na...
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities is an unfinished novel by Austrian writer Robert Musil, published in installments beginning in...
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time is a seven-volume novel by French writer Marcel Proust, published between 1913 and 1927. The work...
Phaedo
Phaedo is a dialogue by Plato that depicts the final hours of Socrates before his execution by hemlock poisoning in 399...
In the Penal Colony
In the Penal Colony is a short story by Franz Kafka, written in German in 1914 and first published in 1919. The narrativ...
Conversation in the Cathedral
Mario Vargas Llosa's 1969 Peruvian novel set during the Odría dictatorship, using a fractured, interwoven narrative stru...
Rameau's Nephew
Rameau's Nephew is a philosophical dialogue by French Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot, composed between 1761 and 177...
Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot's picaresque novel *Jacques the Fatalist* was written during the 1770s and 1780s, though not published unt...
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
*The Book of Laughter and Forgetting* is a 1979 novel by Czech-French author Milan Kundera, written during his exile in...
The First Circle
*The First Circle* is a novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, completed in the 1950s and first published abroa...
Man's Fate
*Man's Fate* (*La Condition Humaine*) is a 1933 novel by André Malraux that explores the psychological and existential d...
The Joke
*The Joke* is the debut novel of Czech-French writer Milan Kundera, published in 1967. The narrative follows Ludvík Jahn...
The War with the Newts
*The War with the Newts* is a 1936 satirical science fiction novel by Czech author Karel Čapek. The story details the di...
Dirty Hands
'Dirty Hands' is a political drama written by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, first staged in 1948. Set in the fict...
Submission
Submission is a 2015 political fiction novel by French author Michel Houellebecq that imagines a near-future France gove...
Atlas Shrugged
Rand's 1957 American novel presenting her Objectivist philosophy through a dystopian scenario in which the world's produ...
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| 9.7 Brilliant | +0.5 | Compare | |
| 9.5 Brilliant | +0.3 | Compare | |
| 9.4 Excellent | +0.2 | Compare | |
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| 9.1 Excellent | -0.1 | Compare | |
| 8.8 Great | -0.4 | Compare | |
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