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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 9.7/10, 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...
The Republic
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, composed around 375 BCE, that examines the nature of justice and the struc...
Symposium
Symposium is a dialogue by Plato, likely composed between 385 and 370 BCE, in which several Athenian guests at a banquet...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1886. It recounts the final illness and death o...
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...
Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow is a novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. Set primarily in Europe during the fi...
The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet is a work by Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, composed as a collection of fragmentary reflections...
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...
Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot's picaresque novel *Jacques the Fatalist* was written during the 1770s and 1780s, though not published unt...
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...
Pincher Martin
Pincher Martin is a 1956 philosophical novel by British author William Golding that explores themes of survival, isolati...
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...
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...
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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