Existentialist


The Stranger
Nausea
The Metamorphosis
The Plague
The Fall
Waiting for Godot
The Trial
Crime and Punishment
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Notes from Underground
The Brothers Karamazov
Being and Nothingness
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Existentialism is a Humanism
Fear and Trembling
Milk Fed by Melissa BroderThe Edible Woman by Margaret AtwoodYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra KleemanCursed Bread by Sophie MackintoshPiglet by Hazell Lottie
Weird Existentialist Food Fiction
15 books — 5 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul SartreThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Existential Fiction
449 books — 767 voters

Am I alone in an ensconced inner world where I obsessively worry about what happens to me, where the story of personal survival becomes the central theme of my shallow existence? I think not. Swaddled in our own brand of strangeness, we all struggle to come to terms with our demonstrated personal shortcomings. Our yearned-for life of living in pink skyways far removed from harm’s way is depressingly marked in contrast by our actual crabby existence spent scuttling along akin to a smug lobster, s ...more
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Aman Tiwari
Everything has a reason attached to its inception by virtue of the choices we make. The choices indeed materialize the reasons. The reason being the ‘cause’ and every cause conceptualizes an ‘effect’ at its core, thereby identifying itself under the principle of causality.
Aman Tiwari, Memoir: The Cathartic Night

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