2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Basem Essam (12 Lists)



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
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueSteppenwolf by Hermann HessePerfume by Patrick Süskind
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
973 books — 956 voters
ثلاثية القاهرة by Naguib Mahfouzشرف by Sonallah Ibrahimالحرب في بر مصر by يوسف القعيدالوقائع الغريبة في اختفاء سعيد أبي النحس المتشائل by إميل حبيبيرامة والتنين by Edwar al-Kharrat
الروايات 100 العربية
103 books — 3 voters

1984 by George OrwellDracula by Bram StokerA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Shining by Stephen KingInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Quality Dark Fiction
2,508 books — 3,225 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cult Classics
1,567 books — 2,120 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareThe Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeNotes from Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Absolute Madman
125 books — 32 voters
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCloud Atlas by David MitchellPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters

The Science of Logic by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelIntelligence and Spirit by Reza NegarestaniThe Blind Spot by Jean-Yves GirardLogical Investigations, Volume 1 by Edmund HusserlThe Opening of Hegel's Logic by Stephen Houlgate
Speculative Reason
88 books — 6 voters
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiOn the Suffering of the World by Arthur SchopenhauerThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaA Short History of Decay by Emil M. CioranWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Existentially Pessimistic Reality [philosophical self discovery]
120 books — 20 voters


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