The Bed of Procrustes
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
by Edward Craig | 
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten
by Julian Baggini | 
The Duck That Won the Lottery
by Julian Baggini | 
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
by Daniel C. Dennett | 
On the Suffering of the World
by Arthur Schopenhauer | 
Stillness Is the Key
by Ryan Holiday | 
Man is the Measure
by Reuben Abel | 
The Silence of Animals
by John Gray | 
The Meaning of Life
by Terry Eagleton | 
The Philosophy Book
by Will Buckingham | 
Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
by Julia Annas | 
The Meaning of Things
by A. C. Grayling |
Kant in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern | 
What Does It All Mean?
by Thomas Nagel | 
A Guide to the Good Life
by William B. Irvine | 
The Daily Stoic
by Ryan Holiday | 
Civilization and Its Discontents
by Sigmund Freud | 
Status Anxiety
by Alain de Botton | 
The Doors of Perception
by Aldous Huxley |
The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius.