📚 Stoicism

The porch school that keeps returning: Marcus, Epictetus, and the modern self-help inheritance.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject stoicism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	2015	24
	Stoics and saints	James Baldwin Brown	1893	7
	How to Be a Stoic	Massimo Pigliucci	2017	7
	Epictetus' Handbook and the Tablet of Cebes	Keith Seddon	2005	6
	Roman Stoicism (Routledge Revivals)	Edward Vernon Arnold	2013	6
	The Daily Stoic Journal	Ryan Holiday	2017	6
	Stoic Doctrine of Providence	Bernard Collette	2021	6
	Lives of the Stoics	Ryan Holiday	2020	5
	Stoicism and its influence	Wenley, Robert Mark	1924	4
	How to Be Free	Epictetus	2018	4
	Stoic Theory of Beauty	Aiste Celkyte	2020	3
	Hellenistic philosophy of mind	Julia Annas	1992	2
	The Art of Living	John Sellars	2003	2
	Stoicism	John Sellars	2006	2
	Stoic, Christian and Humanist	Gilbert Murray	2013	2
	Meditations	James Orr	2017	2
	Epictetus and Laypeople	Erlend D. MacGillivray	2020	2
	Later Stoicism 155 BC to AD 200	Brad Inwood	2021	2
	Stoic Path	Epictetus	2022	2
	Virtue in an Age of Identity Politics	Jonathan D. Church	2022	2
	De constantia libri dvo	Justus Lipsius	1584	1
	The thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus Aurelius	Marcus Aurelius	1889	1
	The stoic philosophy	Gilbert Murray	1918	1
	Die freiheit des Christen nach Paulus und die freiheit des weisens nach der jüngeren Stoa	Friedrich Ernst Bismarck	1921	1
	Paulus und die Stoa	Max Pohlenz	1964	1
	Soul and Body in Stoicism	Peter Robert Lamont Brown	1980	1
	Epistolas Morales a Lucilio I	Seneca the Younger	1996	1
	Stoics, Epicureans, and sceptics	R. W. Sharples	1996	1
	On the Shortness of Life	Seneca the Younger	2004	1
	Der stoische Immanenz-Begriff: uber die Teil-Ganzes- und Einheit-Mannigfaltigkeit-Relation im stoischen System	Giorgio Armato	2005	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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