The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton | 
How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton | 
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
by Alain de Botton | 
On Seeing and Noticing
by Alain de Botton | 
The Art of Thinking
by Ernest Dimnet | 
Free Will
by Sam Harris | 
To Have or to Be?
by Erich Fromm | 
The Outsider
by Colin Wilson | 
The Philosophy Book
by Will Buckingham | 
Lying
by Sam Harris | 
Why I Am So Wise
by Friedrich Nietzsche |
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
by Donald Robertson | 
Man is the Measure
by Reuben Abel | 
How We Think
by John Dewey | 
Brainstorms
by Daniel C. Dennett | 
The Road Less Traveled
by M. Scott Peck |
The Passionate State of Mind and Other Aphorisms
by Eric Hoffer | 
Stillness Is the Key
by Ryan Holiday | 
Simple Abundance
by Sarah Ban Breathnach | 
On the Suffering of the World
by Arthur Schopenhauer |
Anyone who's ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor's Lexus had better read Alain de Botton's irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has less to do with material comfort than with love. To demonstrate his thesis, de Botton ranges through Western history and thought from St. Augustine to Andrew Carnegie and Machiavelli to Anthony Robbins.