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The Republic (c. 375 BC) — Plato · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Attacking Faulty Reasoning (1980) — T. Edward Damer · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
The Whistle (1779) — Benjamin Franklin · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Doing Good Better (2015) — William MacAskill · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
Moral Uncertainty (2020) — William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist, Toby Ord · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
The Justification of the Good (1897) — Vladimir Solovyov · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
The Philosophy of the Common Task (1906–1913) — Nikolai Fyodorov · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
Sobranie sochineniy (Collected Works), 4 vols (1995–2000) — Nikolai Fyodorov · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
The Masnavi (1258–1273) — Jalal al-Din Rumi · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
What We Owe the Future (2022) — William MacAskill · Book · The book’s site
Discourse on the Method (1637) — René Descartes · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Novum Organum (1620) — Francis Bacon · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) — David Hume · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) — John Locke · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
On Liberty (1859) — John Stuart Mill · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
A System of Logic (1843) — John Stuart Mill · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Apology (c. 399 BC) — Plato · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Essays (1580) — Michel de Montaigne · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Pragmatism (1907) — William James · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Science and Hypothesis (1902) — Henri Poincaré · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) — Karl Popper · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) — Thomas S. Kuhn · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) — Daniel Kahneman · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Scout Mindset (2021) — Julia Galef · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Demon-Haunted World (1995) — Carl Sagan · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Book of Why (2018) — Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Signal and the Noise (2012) — Nate Silver · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (c. 1160) — Ibn Tufayl · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Expert Political Judgment (2005) — Philip E. Tetlock · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Life You Can Save (2009) — Peter Singer · Book · Free edition
The Precipice (2020) — Toby Ord · Book · The book’s site
Poor Economics (2011) — Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Sciences of the Artificial (1969) — Herbert A. Simon · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Noise (2021) — Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944) — John von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Factfulness (2018) — Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Checklist Manifesto (2009) — Atul Gawande · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Thinking in Systems (2008) — Donella H. Meadows · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Way to Wealth (1758) — Benjamin Franklin · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) — Frederick Winslow Taylor · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
High Output Management (1983) — Andrew S. Grove · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering (1997) — Richard W. Hamming · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Limits to Growth (1972) — Donella H. Meadows and others · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Mythical Man-Month (1975) — Frederick P. Brooks Jr. · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Nicomachean Ethics (c. 340 BC) — Aristotle · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Meditations (c. 180) — Marcus Aurelius · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Analects (c. 475 BC) — Confucius · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Tao Te Ching (c. 400 BC) — Laozi · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Dhammapada (c. 3rd century BC) — Traditional · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785) — Immanuel Kant · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Utilitarianism (1863) — John Stuart Mill · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Methods of Ethics (1874) — Henry Sidgwick · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) — Adam Smith · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) — Leo Tolstoy · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Gulistan (1258) — Saadi · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Mutual Aid (1902) — Peter Kropotkin · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Expanding Circle (1981) — Peter Singer · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (1972) — Peter Singer · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Reasons and Persons (1984) — Derek Parfit · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Humankind: A Hopeful History (2019) — Rutger Bregman · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
I and Thou (1923) — Martin Buber · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Strangers Drowning (2015) — Larissa MacFarquhar · Book · About the book · Wikipedia

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Arts

The Divine Comedy (1321) — Dante Alighieri · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Leaves of Grass (1855) — Walt Whitman · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Ariel (1965) — Sylvia Plath · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
The Plague (1947) — Albert Camus · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
The Odyssey (c. 700 BC) — Homer · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Hamlet (1603) — William Shakespeare · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Don Quixote (1605) — Miguel de Cervantes · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
War and Peace (1869) — Leo Tolstoy · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Brothers Karamazov (1880) — Fyodor Dostoevsky · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Faust (1808) — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Rubáiyát (c. 1120) — Omar Khayyam · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Gitanjali (1910) — Rabindranath Tagore · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Moby-Dick (1851) — Herman Melville · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Poems (1890) — Emily Dickinson · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911) — Wassily Kandinsky · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1519) — Leonardo da Vinci · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
What Is Art? (1897) — Leo Tolstoy · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Tale of Genji (c. 1010) — Murasaki Shikibu · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Book of Dede Korkut (15th century) — Traditional · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
My Name Is Red (1998) — Orhan Pamuk · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Memed, My Hawk (1955) — Yaşar Kemal · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Time Regulation Institute (1961) — Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Madonna in a Fur Coat (1943) — Sabahattin Ali · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Human Landscapes from My Country (1966) — Nâzım Hikmet · Book · About the book · Wikipedia (Turkish)
The Story of Art (1950) — E. H. Gombrich · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Ways of Seeing (1972) — John Berger · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Invisible Cities (1972) — Italo Calvino · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Ficciones (1944) — Jorge Luis Borges · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) — Gabriel García Márquez · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Horace Walpole’s papers — Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University · Primary source · United States
Project Gutenberg — Volunteer digital library · Texts · public domain
IMSLP — Petrucci Music Library — Scores and recordings · Music · public domain
Gallica — Bibliothèque nationale de France · Library · France
NDL Digital Collections — National Diet Library · Library · Japan
Qatar Digital Library — Qatar National Library and British Library · Manuscripts · Arab world
Endangered Archives Programme — British Library · Archives · worldwide
Louvre collections — Musée du Louvre · Museum · France
Rijksmuseum collection — Rijksmuseum · Museum · Netherlands
Open Access — The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Museum · CC0
Open data — National Palace Museum · Museum · Taiwan
Smithsonian Open Access — Smithsonian Institution · Museums · CC0
Internet Archive — Non-profit library · Film, sound, software

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Humanity

The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660–1669) — Samuel Pepys · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Journal of Major George Washington (1754) — George Washington · Book · Full text · University of Nebraska–Lincoln
The Wealth of Nations (1776) — Adam Smith · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Social Contract (1762) — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Nutuk (1927) — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk · Book · Full text · Wikisource (Turkish)
Social Psychology (1985) — David O. Sears and others · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
The Charisma Myth (2012) — Olivia Fox Cabane · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
The Muqaddimah (1377) — Ibn Khaldun · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
History of the Peloponnesian War (c. 400 BC) — Thucydides · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Histories (c. 430 BC) — Herodotus · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Democracy in America (1835) — Alexis de Tocqueville · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Leviathan (1651) — Thomas Hobbes · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Prince (1532) — Niccolò Machiavelli · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) — Mary Wollstonecraft · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) — Frederick Douglass · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Souls of Black Folk (1903) — W. E. B. Du Bois · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Federalist Papers (1788) — Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Art of War (c. 500 BC) — Sun Tzu · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Spirit of the Laws (1748) — Montesquieu · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Development as Freedom (1999) — Amartya Sen · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011) — Steven Pinker · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) — Jared Diamond · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Human Condition (1958) — Hannah Arendt · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) — Viktor E. Frankl · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Why Nations Fail (2012) — Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Emergence of Modern Turkey (1961) — Bernard Lewis · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Great Transformation (1944) — Karl Polanyi · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (1984) — Robert B. Cialdini · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) — Dale Carnegie · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Sapiens (2011) — Yuval Noah Harari · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Universal Declaration of Human Rights — United Nations, 1948 · Primary text
The Fundamental Principles — International Committee of the Red Cross · Humanitarian · Switzerland
Our World in Data — University of Oxford and Global Change Data Lab · Data · long-run
World Bank Open Data — World Bank · Data · development
Global Health Observatory — World Health Organization · Data · health
Human Development Reports — UNDP · Index · global
Maddison Project Database — University of Groningen · Economic history
IPUMS — University of Minnesota · Census microdata · worldwide
J-PAL — Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, MIT · Randomised evaluations
GiveWell — Charity evaluator · Evaluation · open models
Against Malaria Foundation — Net distribution · Programme · distribution data
BRAC — Development organisation · Programme · Bangladesh
Afrobarometer — Pan-African research network · Surveys · Africa
Latinobarómetro — Corporación Latinobarómetro · Surveys · Latin America

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Sciences

On the Origin of Species (1859) — Charles Darwin · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Principia Mathematica (1910–1913) — Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
The Architecture of Modern Mathematics (2006) — José Ferreirós, Jeremy Gray (eds.) · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
Quantum Electrodynamics (1961) — Richard P. Feynman · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
Shadows of the Mind (1994) — Roger Penrose · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
Man on His Nature (1940) — Charles Sherrington · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
Gray’s Anatomy (1858) — Henry Gray · Book · Catalogue · Open Library
Elements (c. 300 BC) — Euclid · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) — Isaac Newton · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (1638) — Galileo Galilei · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Chemical History of a Candle (1861) — Michael Faraday · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916) — Albert Einstein · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
Elements of Chemistry (1789) — Antoine Lavoisier · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Descent of Man (1871) — Charles Darwin · Book · Full text · Project Gutenberg
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1963) — Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands · Book · Full text · Caltech
What Is Life? (1944) — Erwin Schrödinger · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948) — Claude E. Shannon · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) — Alan Turing · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979) — Douglas R. Hofstadter · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Art of Computer Programming (1968–) — Donald E. Knuth · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
A Mathematician’s Apology (1940) — G. H. Hardy · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
How to Solve It (1945) — George Pólya · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Silent Spring (1962) — Rachel Carson · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
De humani corporis fabrica (1543) — Andreas Vesalius · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Book of Optics (1021) — Ibn al-Haytham · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing (c. 820) — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Experiments on Plant Hybridization (1866) — Gregor Mendel · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1985) — Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman · Book · About the book · Wikipedia
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018) — Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto · Book · Full text · the authors
Deep Learning (2016) — Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville · Book · Full text · the authors
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2003) — David J. C. MacKay · Book · Full text · the author
Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science — Open Science Collaboration, Science, 2015 · Replication · data and materials
arXiv — Cornell University · Preprints · physics to statistics
SciELO — Scientific Electronic Library Online · Journals · Latin America
African Journals Online — AJOL · Journals · Africa
J-STAGE — Japan Science and Technology Agency · Journals · Japan
DergiPark — TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM · Journals · Türkiye
MacTutor History of Mathematics — University of St Andrews · Mathematics · history
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences — OEIS Foundation · Mathematics · database
Digital Library of Mathematical Functions — NIST · Mathematics · reference
The International System of Units — Bureau International des Poids et Mesures · Standard · units
CERN Open Data — CERN · Physics · data
Astrophysics Data System — NASA and Harvard–Smithsonian · Astronomy · literature
Protein Data Bank — RCSB · Biology · structures
GenBank — NCBI · Biology · sequences
Glottolog — Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · Linguistics · languages of the world
World Atlas of Language Structures — WALS Online · Linguistics · typology
Needham Research Institute — Science and civilisation in China · History of science · East Asia
Seshat — Global History Databank · History · data
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Stanford University · Philosophy of science

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