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Books like How to Improve Yourself Intellectually

If you loved How to Improve Yourself Intellectually by Herbert Spencer, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Literary and Literature & Fiction.

Literary Literature & Fiction

Top related books to How to Improve Yourself Intellectually

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

Ancient and Modern Initiation And Teachings of an Initiate

Max Heindel

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

Essays And Lectures

Oscar Wilde

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion In The History Of Hospitality (1916)

Fritz Endell

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

The Continuity Of Consciousness

L. W. Rogers

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

History Of The European Languages V2: Or, Researches Into The Affinities Of The Teutonic, Greek, Celtic, Slavonic And Indian Nations

Alexander Murray

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

The Prince of Peace

William Jennings Bryan

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

Miracle Mongers and Their Methods A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc

Harry Houdini

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

Principes de Métaphysique et de Psychologie Tome II

Paul Janet

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

Man’s Supreme Inheritance: Conscious Guidance and Control in Relation to Human Evolution

F. Matthias Alexander

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#10

Life’s Riddle Solved Through the Law of Metempsychosis

John H. Manas

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#11

Pragmatism A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

William James

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#12

Two Readings Delivered In The Middle Temple Hall (1850)

George Bowyer

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#13

The Philosophical Elixir Of Vegetables

Baru Urbigerus

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#14

The New Economy: A Peaceable Solution Of The Social Problem (1907)

Laurence Gronlund

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#15

The Roerich Pact And The Banner Of Peace

Nicholas Roerich

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#16

The Right to Be Lazy And Other Studies

Paul Lafargue

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#17

Energies of Men

William James

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#18

Great Leaders Of Hebrew History: From Manasseh To John The Baptist (1920)

Henry Thatcher Fowler

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#19

Essays On Joseph Conrad And Oscar Wilde

John Cowper Powys

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#20

A History Of The Beck Family: Together With A Genealogical Record Of The Alleynes And The Chases From Whom They Are Descended (1907)

Charlotte Reeve Conover

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#21

Opinions A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business

Roxane Gay

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#22

Forms Of Prayer, And Other Offices: For The Use Of Unitarian Societies (1783)

Joseph Priestley

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#23

Adventures In Indigence And Other Essays

Laura Spencer Portor

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

#24

Politics And Politicians, Anecdotes And Incidents: A Succinct History Of The Politics Of Illinois From 1856 To 1884 (1884)

David W. Lusk

Themes: Literary • Literature & Fiction

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Literary, Literature & Fiction — the same threads that run through How to Improve Yourself Intellectually by Herbert Spencer. Among the authors featured: Max Heindel, Oscar Wilde, Fritz Endell, L. W. Rogers, and others.