Ethics Books to Read Free Online

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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

2006 ★ 3.9

The Giver

Lois Lowry

1993 ★ 4.0

Falling Free

Lois McMaster Bujold

1988 ★ 3.8

A Case of Conscience

James Blish

1958 ★ 4.0

L'Homme révolté

Albert Camus

1954 ★ 4.4

Human Society in Ethics and Politics

Bertrand Russell

1954

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

1749 ★ 4.1

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley

1831 ★ 4.0

Candide

Voltaire

1759 ★ 4.0

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

1932 ★ 4.0

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

1908 ★ 4.1

Moralia

Plutarch

1655 ★ 4.2

A Letter Concerning Toleration

Patrick Romanell, Kerry Walters, John Locke et al.

1955 ★ 4.0

La Mort heureuse

Albert Camus

1971 ★ 3.4

Rollback

Robert J. Sawyer

2007 ★ 3.2

Do No Harm

Henry Marsh, Marsh, Henry

2014 ★ 3.9

The Art of Loving

Erich Fromm

1956 ★ 3.7

Farmer Boy

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1933 ★ 3.8

A guide for the perplexed

E. F. Schumacher

1978 ★ 3.8

Lila

Robert M. Pirsig

1991 ★ 4.8

12 Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson

2018 ★ 3.8

Art of Living

Epictetus

2004 ★ 4.8

As a man thinketh

James Allen

1903 ★ 4.7

Freedom from the Known

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1975 ★ 4.1

A theory of justice

John Rawls

1971 ★ 4.3

Lunyu

Confucius

1938 ★ 3.5

Ballet Shoes (Shoes #1)

Noel Streatfeild

1937 ★ 4.4

Learned Optimism

Martin Elias Pete Seligman

2006 ★ 4.1

Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

Max Weber

1930 ★ 3.7

Life 3.0

Max Tegmark

2017 ★ 4.1

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