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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,551,961 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as existential)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,582,270 ratings — published 1915
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 148,648 ratings — published 1938
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as existential)
avg rating 4.02 — 337,157 ratings — published 1947
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 128,081 ratings — published 2011
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 427,967 ratings — published 1925
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as existential)
avg rating 4.16 — 266,301 ratings — published 1864
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as existential)
avg rating 4.36 — 950,091 ratings — published 1946
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 573,544 ratings — published 1984
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as existential)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,173,747 ratings — published 1866
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 229,206 ratings — published 1927
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as existential)
avg rating 3.84 — 230,076 ratings — published 1952
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 924,011 ratings — published 1922
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as existential)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,716,217 ratings — published 2020
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as existential)
avg rating 3.92 — 295,255 ratings — published 1948
The Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as existential)
avg rating 4.02 — 148,313 ratings — published 1956
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 746,177 ratings — published 1995
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as existential)
avg rating 4.16 — 111,772 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,032,956 ratings — published 1951
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as existential)
avg rating 4.40 — 421,107 ratings — published 1879
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as existential)
avg rating 4.14 — 269,516 ratings — published 1886
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as existential)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,818,808 ratings — published 1949
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as existential)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,784,752 ratings — published 1988
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as existential)
avg rating 4.07 — 185,630 ratings — published 1883
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 3.88 — 42,847 ratings — published 1962
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,501 ratings — published 1947
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,333,150 ratings — published 1963
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.21 — 67,352 ratings — published 1942
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,029,442 ratings — published 1890
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,630,277 ratings — published 1943
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,536,279 ratings — published 1969
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 50,164 ratings — published 1946
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.41 — 861,411 ratings — published 2016
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,167,751 ratings — published 1932
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 49,403 ratings — published 1944
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 3.85 — 924,595 ratings — published 2005
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 3.58 — 632,305 ratings — published 2018
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 4.38 — 40,575 ratings — published 1982
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 780,354 ratings — published 1987
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 539,083 ratings — published 1968
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.36 — 315,484 ratings — published 1965
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.18 — 667,443 ratings — published 1996
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 28,131 ratings — published 1971
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,616 ratings — published 1947
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 36,148 ratings — published 1943
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 338,823 ratings — published 2014
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,033,139 ratings — published 1818
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,608 ratings — published 1967
The Tartar Steppe (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.20 — 48,406 ratings — published 1940
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 — 79,311 ratings — published 1864
“I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.”
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“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone, let me descend into a futile and prolonged rage, yes, despair, wanting to break things, furniture, appliances, wanting to get into fights, to scream, to walk in front of a bus, yes. Let me suffer, please. To love just these few people, to know myself capable of that, I would suffer every day of my life.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
