4.03 avg rating — 1,393,081 ratings

4.25 avg rating — 41,415 ratings

"This guy is pretty decent. Definitely comes from the "life has meaning" camp. He's a psycotherapist, fiction writer, and Nietzche scholar."

4.07 avg rating — 11,169 ratings

"Cuts to the bone on some Freudian shit, well worth reading."

4.03 avg rating — 113,785 ratings

"A poet warrior in the classic sense. This man moves mountains with his lyrical soul. I can't recommend enough. Nobody but nobody has made nihilism more palatable and endurable, sexy even, than N. "

4.13 avg rating — 44,954 ratings

"The only thing I've read by JC but a must."

4.37 avg rating — 873,115 ratings

"I can actually get behind his theistic worldview because his answers about meaning apply even without the promise of afterlife. A truly harrowing read though, he lived through German concentration camps, and writes about it in this work."

3.69 avg rating — 13,873 ratings

"Sexual deviant, freak, poet, all the good things. Read her."

3.79 avg rating — 846 ratings

"Haven't actually read S.'s work but I'm generally on board. Read him or this before Nietzche, as Nietzche is constantly engaging with him.

S. was maybe the first western thinker to dive into eastern thought, buddhism etc."

3.90 avg rating — 1,418,021 ratings

"Dammn I love me some Kafka, and this one is pretty short and accessible. He was a bleak-ass writer though."

3.84 avg rating — 221,881 ratings

"Beckett is a guy I keep meaning to read more. Nonetheless, I've read this play a few times and watched it a few more times. It's a thing of great beauty. Nontheists and theists alike can claim Godot as their work, which is interesting enough. But truly a tearjerking work about isolation and the love which comes from friendship and "family.""