Friedrich Nietzsche Reading Order
3 series · 99 books · Born 15 October 1844
Friedrich Nietzsche was a prominent German philosopher and writer known for his thought-provoking ideas that challenged traditional values and morality. His influential works span various genres, with 99 titles published across three significant series, including The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy, and the Portable Library. Active from 1273 until 2021, Nietzsche's most notable contributions continue to resonate in philosophical discussions today.
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Series
Complete72 books
Start with Summa Theologiae / Questions on God(By: Brian Davies,Thomas Aquinas,Brian Leftow), the first of 72 books in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series.
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| 1 | Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics(By: Roger Crisp) |
| 2 | Eudemian Ethics(By: Brad Inwood,Raphael Woolf) |
| 3 | Nicomachean Ethics(By: Roger Crisp) |
| 4 | On Moral Ends(By: Julia Annas,Marcus Tullius Cicero,Raphael Woolf) |
| 5 | On the Trinity(By: Augustine of Hippo,Gareth B. Matthews,Stephen McKenna) |
| 6 |  Outlines of Scepticism(By: Jonathan Barnes,Julia Annas,Sextus Empiricus) |
| 7 | Plato: The Symposium(By: M.C. Howatson,Frisbee Sheffield) |
| 8 | Theaetetus/Sophist(By: Harold North Fowler,Francis Macdonald Cornford) |
| 9 |  Summa Theologiae / Questions on God(By: Brian Davies,Thomas Aquinas,Brian Leftow) 1273Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | Cause, Principle and Unity and Essays on Magic(By: Giordano Bruno,Richard J. Blackwell,Alfonso Ingegno,Robert De Lucca) 1583Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 | Francis Bacon: The New Organon(By: Lisa Jardine,Francis Bacon,Michael Silverthorne) 1620Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 | Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy(By: John Cottingham) 1641Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 | Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking(By: Pierre Nicole,Antoine Arnauld,Jill Vance Buroker) 1662Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 | Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy(By: Margaret Cavendish,Eileen O'Neill) 1668Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 | Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: Gebhardt Edition(By: Baruch Spinoza,Brad S. Gregory,Samuel Shirley,Maarten van Buuren) 1670Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 |  The Search after Truth(By: Nicolas Malebranche,Thomas M. Lennon) 1675Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 | Spinoza: Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order(By: Baruch Spinoza,Michael Silverthorne,Matthew Kisner) 1677Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 | Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion(By: David Scott,Nicholas Jolley,Nicolas Malebranche) 1688Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 | Locke on Toleration(By: Richard Vernon) 1689Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 | Berkeley: Philosophical Writings(By: George Berkeley,Desmond M. Clarke) 1709Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 | Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times(By: Anthony AshleyCooper,Lawrence E. Klein) 1711Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 |  A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With a Treatise of Freewill(By: Ralph Cudworth,Sarah Hutton) 1731Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 | Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding(By: Stephen Buckle) 1748Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 | The Theory of Moral Sentiments(By: Adam Smith) 1759Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 | Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View(By: Immanuel Kant,Robert B. Louden,Manfred Kühn) 1785Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 | Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals(By: Immanuel Kant,Jens Timmermann,Mary J. Gregor,Christine M. Korsgaard) 1785Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 27 | Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science(By: Immanuel Kant,MichaelFriedman) 1786Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 28 | Critique of Practical Reason(By: Immanuel Kant) 1788Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 29 |  Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation(By: Allen Wood,Garrett Green) 1792Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 30 | Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone(By: Immanuel Kant) 1793Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 31 | Novalis: Fichte Studies(By: Novalis,Jane Kneller) 1796Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 32 |  Foundations of Natural Right(By: Frederick Neuhouser,Johann Gottlieb Fichte,Michael Baur) 1797Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 33 | The Metaphysics of Morals(By: Immanuel Kant,Lara Denis,Mary J. Gregor) 1797Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 34 | The System of Ethics(By: Daniel Breazeale,Johann Gottlieb Fichte,Guenter Zöller) 1798Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 35 | Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Richard E. Crouter) 1799Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 36 | Hamann: Writings on Philosophy and Language: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention(By: Stephen Lord) 1825Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 37 |  On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings(By: Heinrich Heine,Terry P. Pinkard,Howard Pollack-Milgate) 1835Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 38 |  On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species(By: Wilhelm von Humboldt,Peter Heath,Michael Losonsky) 1836Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 39 | Fear and Trembling(By: Søren Kierkegaard,Sylvia Walsh,C. Stephen Evans) 1843Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 40 | Untimely Meditations(With: Daniel Breazeale) 1876Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 41 | Daybreak(With: Brian Leiter,Maudemarie Clark) 1881Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 42 | The Gay Science(With: Bernard Williams,Josefine Nauckhoff) 1882Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 43 |  Thus Spoke Zarathustra 1883Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 44 | Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future(With: Judith Norman,Rolf-Peter Horstmann) 1886Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 45 |  The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy(By: Allison P. Coudert,Anne Conway,Taylor Corse) 1982Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 46 | Orations on Philosophy and Education(By: Philipp Melanchthon,Christine F. Salazar,Sachiko Kusukawa) 1989Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 47 | Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity(By: Thomas Hobbes,Vere C. Chappell,John Bramhall) 1995Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 48 |  A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature(By: Robert Boyle,Michael Hunter,Edward B. Davis) 1996Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 49 | La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings(By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie,Ann Thomson) 1996Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 50 |  Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings(By: Daniel O. Dahlstrom,Moses Mendelssohn) 1997Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 51 | Herder: Philosophical Writings(By: Johann Gottfried Herder,Michael N. Forster) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 52 | Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Andrew Bowie) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 53 | The World and Other Writings(By: René Descartes,Stephen Gaukroger) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 54 | Disputed Questions on the Virtues(By: Thomas Aquinas,E.M. Atkins,Rev. Thomas Williams) 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 55 |  The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 56 |  Treatise on Tolerance and Other Writings(By: Voltaire) 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 57 | Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings(With: Aaron Ridley,Judith Norman) 2001Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 58 | Philosophical & Theological Writings(By: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) 2001Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 59 | Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics(By: J.M. Bernstein) 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 60 | Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Louise Adey Huish,Robert B. Louden) 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 61 |  Writings from the Early Notebooks 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 62 |  Writings from the Late Notebooks 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 63 | Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings(By: Isaac Newton,Andrew Janiak) 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 64 | Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason(By: Immanuel Kant,Gary Hatfield) 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 65 | Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings(By: Muhammad Ali Khalidi) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 66 | Reinhold: Letters on the Kantian Philosophy(By: Karl P. Ameriks,James Hebbeler) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 67 | Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians(By: Richard Bett) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 68 | Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings(By: Peter King) 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 69 | Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: And Other Writings(By: David Hume) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 70 | Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings(By: Charles Harry Manekin) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 71 | Greek and Roman Aesthetics(By: Oleg V. Bychkov,Anne Sheppard) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 72 | Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings(By: Paul Guyer,Patrick Frierson) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
Portable Library Series
Complete10 books (1976–1999)
Start with The Portable Cervantes(By: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra), the first of 10 books in the Portable Library series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 | The Portable Cervantes(By: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra) 1976Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition(By: Geoffrey Chaucer) 1977Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | The Portable Medieval Reader(By: James Bruce Ross) 1977Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | The Portable Nietzsche 1977Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | The Portable Roman Reader(By: Basil Davenport) 1977Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | The Portable Thomas Jefferson(By: Thomas Jefferson) 1977Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 | The Portable Machiavelli(By: Niccolò Machiavelli) 1979Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 | The Portable Emerson: New Edition(By: Ralph Waldo Emerson) 1981Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | The Portable American Realism Reader(By: James Nagel) 1997Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | The Portable Edmund Burke(By: Edmund Burke) 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche Series
Likely Complete17 books (1871–2021)
Start with The Birth of Tragedy, the first of 17 books in the The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 |  The Birth of Tragedy 1871Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays 1872Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | On the Future of our Educational Institutions 1873Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  Thoughts Out of Season 1874Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 |  Human, All Too Human 1875Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 |  The Case of Wagner-Nietzsche, Contra Wagner, Selected Aphorisms 1876Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  The Dawn of Day 1881Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  The Joyful Wisdom 1882Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 |  Beyond Good and Evil 1883Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra 1883Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  The Genealogy of Morals 1884Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  The Will to Power 1885Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 |  The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ 1886Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 |  Ecce Homo 1888Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 | The Antichrist 1895Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 |  Index to Nietzsche 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 |  God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Friedrich Nietzsche written?
- Friedrich Nietzsche has written 99 books across 3 series. Their published works span from 1273 to 2021.
- What is the first book in each Friedrich Nietzsche series?
- Here are the first books in Friedrich Nietzsche's series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics(By: Roger Crisp); Portable Library: The Portable Cervantes(By: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra); The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy.
- What order should I read Friedrich Nietzsche's books?
- We recommend reading Friedrich Nietzsche's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
- Are Friedrich Nietzsche's series complete?
- Friedrich Nietzsche has 2 completed series.