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The Republic
Written by Plato around 375 BCE, The Republic uses a Socratic dialogue to ask what justice means and whether a just life benefits the person who lives it. The discussion moves between an imagined political community and the organization of the individual soul. Its proposal that philosopher-kings sho...
apps Top The Republic Alternatives
The top alternative to The Republic 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...
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...
Phaedo
Phaedo is a dialogue by Plato that depicts the final hours of Socrates before his execution by hemlock poisoning in 399...
Conversation in the Cathedral
Mario Vargas Llosa's 1969 Peruvian novel set during the Odría dictatorship, using a fractured, interwoven narrative stru...
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...
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 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...
The Joke
*The Joke* is the debut novel of Czech-French writer Milan Kundera, published in 1967. The narrative follows Ludvík Jahn...
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
Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand. Set in a dystopian United States, it...
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| Alternative | Score | vs The Republic | Action |
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| 9.67 Brilliant | +0.47 | Compare | |
| 9.47 Excellent | +0.27 | Compare | |
| 9.41 Excellent | +0.21 | Compare | |
| 9.20 Excellent | Same | Compare | |
| 9.20 Excellent | Same | Compare | |
| 9.20 Excellent | Same | Compare | |
| 9.20 Excellent | Same | Compare | |
| 9.05 Excellent | -0.15 | Compare | |
| 8.80 Great | -0.40 | Compare | |
| 8.78 Great | -0.42 | Compare |
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