Who are the great philosophy writers/novelists? and what are their books/novels?

i don't know if you mean ancient, because then you could easily look up aristotle, socrates or rene descartes... but if you want someone more modern siddhartha by hermann hesse is very thought provoking and changed my life (it's partially about understanding versus knowledge). hmm... maybe upton sinclair? the jungle? i'm not sure... good luck.

"The Metaphysical Club" by Louis Menand is a relatively new book with great ideas. It also won the Pulitzer Price. I've read excerpts of it and it's a nice look at American philosophical ideas toward our history.

Metaphysical Club is obviously not a novel so if you're interested in a little fiction that gets philosophical, check out "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess - it has great themes that deal with philosophical and humanistic ideas that are put into action.

You are asking for an History of Philosophy since Pilosophy is made thru the books that Philosopher writes

Philosophy has not accomplished something great. An artist or author has finished considered one of those element. yet a logician would not. they only voice their sensible opinion in keeping with basic remark. it would be a touch weird and wonderful to apply "sturdy" using fact the adjective to describe philosophy's consequence in this worldwide, exceedingly from a historic outlook. extremely, i believe that influential worldwide be the observe.

Mortimer Adler--Six Great Ideas

I've always been fond of the work of Elzie Segar (the creator of Popeye the Sailor). There's just something sorta "zen" about a sailor who never actually goes near the water...

Oscar Wilde is the classic answer to this question but I dont know if you are looking for modern writers

Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxely

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxely

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxely

Brave New World by Aldous Huxely

Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All-Too-Human by Friedrich Nietzsche

On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Metamorphosis by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

On the Use and Abuse of History for Life by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts out of Season by Friedrich Nietzsche

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

(1803-1882)

The Young American by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Uncollected Prose by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Transcendentalist by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson

English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays, 1st Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays, 2nd Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson Vol. 1 by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson Vol. 2 by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walking by Henry David Thoreau

Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau

Excursions by Henry David Thoreau

On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Siddhartha An Indian Tale by Hermann Hesse

A Man by the Name of Ziegler by Hermann Hesse

Thoughts on The Idiot of Dostoevsky by Hermann Hesse

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Trial by Franz Kafka

A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

On the Improvement of the Understanding by Benedict de Spinoza

The Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza

'Walden' by Henry David Thoreau.

shakespeare

hemingway

steinbeck --east of eden is great.

at my local library they have a young adult classics section --might wanna check yours and maybe they have a section you could browse. . .