Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025
Genres

Existential


Existential Books

The Stranger
The Metamorphosis
Nausea
The Plague
The Trial
Man's Search for Meaning
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Notes from Underground
Crime and Punishment
Waiting for Godot
Steppenwolf
Siddhartha
The Midnight Library
The Fall
The Catcher in the Rye
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Lists

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori GottliebMaking Room for Madness in Mental Health by Marcus EvansThe Christopher Bollas Reader by Christopher BollasOn Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored by PhillipsBraving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
books every therapist should read!
18 books — 2 voters
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeRelic by Douglas PrestonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonGhost Story by Peter StraubSwan Song by Robert McCammon
Horror (TO READ)
13 books — 2 voters

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
61 Essential Postmodern Reads: Los Angeles Times
66 books — 12 voters
1984 by George OrwellFight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
961 books — 572 voters

Daytripper by Fábio MoonAsterios Polyp by David MazzucchelliThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe Arrival by Shaun TanThe Sculptor by Scott McCloud
Spiritual, Religious, Psychological, and Philosophical Graphic Novels
9 books — 1 voter
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSiddhartha by Hermann HesseSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
books for your existential crisis
164 books — 100 voters

Quotes Tagged “Existential”

Franz Kafka
“ If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything. ...more ”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle
126 likes

Saul Bellow
“ God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few. ”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
8 likes

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Videos Tagged “Existential”

Lost on the Edge of Forever Trailer
Lost on the Edge of Forever Trailer
Grey Noise
Grey Noise
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Groups Tagged "Existential"

Shine & Shadow Welcome to Shine & Shadow. We are a group focused on monthly group reads and discussions. We hav…more
770 members, last active 2 hours ago
Tania Zaverta Chance Q&A A group for serious readers & writers.…more
127 members, last active 5 years ago
Interpretation of Everything In here we analyze literature and cinema from an existential and psychoanalytic perspective.
12 members, last active 2 years ago