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Existential Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,398,041 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as existential)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,424,445 ratings — published 1915
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 139,411 ratings — published 1938
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as existential)
avg rating 4.02 — 314,369 ratings — published 1947
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as existential)
avg rating 3.94 — 394,622 ratings — published 1925
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as existential)
avg rating 4.37 — 875,925 ratings — published 1946
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as existential)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,078,539 ratings — published 1866
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 228,175 ratings — published 1864
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 543,457 ratings — published 1984
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 215,188 ratings — published 1927
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as existential)
avg rating 3.84 — 222,137 ratings — published 1951
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as existential)
avg rating 4.08 — 876,054 ratings — published 1922
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,450,949 ratings — published 2020
The Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 135,100 ratings — published 1956
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as existential)
avg rating 3.94 — 252,411 ratings — published 1948
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,890,496 ratings — published 1951
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as existential)
avg rating 4.16 — 61,672 ratings — published 2011
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 93,844 ratings — published 1942
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as existential)
avg rating 4.39 — 385,793 ratings — published 1880
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 458,426 ratings — published 1995
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as existential)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,452,901 ratings — published 1949
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as existential)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,218,812 ratings — published 1963
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,564,377 ratings — published 1988
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.14 — 222,970 ratings — published 1886
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as existential)
avg rating 3.88 — 39,345 ratings — published 1962
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 30,033 ratings — published 1947
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.22 — 65,346 ratings — published 1942
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,474,242 ratings — published 1943
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 46,407 ratings — published 1946
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,875,418 ratings — published 1890
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,482,154 ratings — published 1969
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.07 — 176,243 ratings — published 1883
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as existential)
avg rating 4.41 — 805,336 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existential)
avg rating 3.85 — 852,829 ratings — published 2005
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 46,628 ratings — published 1944
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.39 — 37,609 ratings — published 1982
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,075,020 ratings — published 1932
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.60 — 562,597 ratings — published 2018
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.18 — 642,620 ratings — published 1996
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,071 ratings — published 1947
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,052 ratings — published 1943
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,006 ratings — published 1967
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.19 — 78,494 ratings — published 1864
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 728,307 ratings — published 1987
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,433 ratings — published 1971
Existential Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.46 — 7,231 ratings — published 1980
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 719,091 ratings — published 2016
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,049,838 ratings — published 1601
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 64,854 ratings — published 1890
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,903 ratings — published 1973
“I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man












