School of Philosophy
Reading List
A curated list of further reading to accompany your course, with titles available via the School bookshop.
Below is a curated list of further reading to accompany your course.
Many of the volumes listed are available via our online bookshop.
Anandamayi Ma | Essential Shri Anandamayi Ma |
Galileo Galilei | Selected Writings |
Hazrat Inayat Khan | Art of Being and Becoming |
Helen Keller | The Story of My Life |
Hildegard of Bingen | Selected Writings |
Jacques Lusseyran | And There Was Light |
James Allen | As a Man Thinketh |
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo | Into the Heart of Life |
John Keats | The Complete Poems of John Keats |
Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching |
Leon MacLaren | Reminders |
Marsilio Ficino | Letters Vol. 1 |
Paul Reps | Zen Flesh, Zen Bones |
Pierre Hadot | Philosophy as a Way of Life |
Plato | The Last Days of Socrates |
Republic | |
Complete Works | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Simone Weil | Simone Weil: An Anthology |
Seneca | Letters from a Stoic |
Shakespeare | Hamlet |
Sonnets | |
Shri Shantananda Sarasvati | Good Company |
The Man who Wanted to Meet God | |
Thomas the Apostle | Gospel of Thomas |
Vivekananda | Complete Works |
Wangari Muta Maathai | Unbowed |
William Blake | The Complete Poems |
William Wordsworth | Collected Poems |
Martin Buber | I and Thou |
Tales of Hasidim | |
Dalai Lama | The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living |
Eugen Herrigel | Zen and the Art of Archery |
Victor Frankl | Man's Search for Meaning |
Eric Fromm | The Art of Loving |
Goleman & Davidson | The Science of Meditation |
John Main | Word into Silence |
Kabir | Ecstatic Poems |
Kahlil Gibran | The Prophet |
Leon MacLaren | The Power of Service |
Nelson Mandela | Long Walk to Freedom |
Paramahamsa Yogananda | Autobiography of a Yogi |
Purohit Swami | Bhagavad Geeta |
The Ten Principal Upanishads | |
Rumi | The Essential Rumi |
Steven Pinker | Enlightenment Now |
H.P. Shastri | World Within the Mind |
James Allen | As a Man Thinketh | |
William Blake | The Complete Poems | |
Martin Buber | I and Thou | |
Tales of Hasidim | ||
Dalai Lama | The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
Marsilio Ficino | Letters Vol. 1 | |
Victor Frankl | Man's Search for Meaning | |
Eric Fromm | The Art of Loving | |
Galileo Galilei | Selected Writings | |
Kahlil Gibran | The Prophet | |
Goleman & Davidson | The Science of Meditation | |
Pierre Hadot | Philosophy as a Way of Life | |
Eugen Herrigel | Zen and the Art of Archery | |
Hildegard of Bingen | Selected Writings | |
Kabir | Ecstatic Poems | |
John Keats | The Complete Poems of John Keats | |
Helen Keller | The Story of My Life | |
Hazrat Inayat Khan | Art of Being and Becoming | |
Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching | |
Jacques Lusseyran | And There Was Light | |
Anandamayi Ma | Essential Shri Anandamayi Ma | |
Wangari Muta Maathai | Unbowed | |
John Main | Word into Silence | |
Nelson Mandela | Long Walk to Freedom | |
Leon MacLaren | Reminders | |
| The Power of Service | |
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo | Into the Heart of Life | |
Paramahamsa Yogananda | Autobiography of a Yogi | |
Plato | The Last Days of Socrates | |
Republic | ||
Complete Works | ||
Steven Pinker | Enlightenment Now | |
Paul Reps | Zen Flesh, Zen Bones | |
Rumi | The Essential Rumi | |
H.P. Shastri | World Within the Mind | |
Purohit Swami | Bhagavad Geeta | |
Thomas the Apostle | Gospel of Thomas | |
Vivekananda | Complete Works | |
The Ten Principal Upanishads | ||
Simone Weil | Simone Weil: An Anthology | |
William Wordsworth | Collected Poems | |
Recommended podcasts
Peter Adamson: A History of Philosophy without any Gaps
Please note that just because an author is listed, this does not mean that The School of Philosophy and Economic Science agrees with all the published views of the author. This is also the case with any podcasts included on the list.
Last updated 23 September 2026