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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,502,091 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as existential)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,528,846 ratings — published 1915
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 145,749 ratings — published 1938
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as existential)
avg rating 4.02 — 329,118 ratings — published 1947
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 417,091 ratings — published 1925
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as existential)
avg rating 4.37 — 928,089 ratings — published 1946
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 564,108 ratings — published 1984
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as existential)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,143,281 ratings — published 1866
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as existential)
avg rating 4.16 — 254,091 ratings — published 1864
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 102,592 ratings — published 2011
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as existential)
avg rating 3.84 — 227,843 ratings — published 1951
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 224,575 ratings — published 1927
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 908,767 ratings — published 1922
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as existential)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,636,131 ratings — published 2020
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 282,286 ratings — published 1948
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 48 times as existential)
avg rating 4.02 — 143,980 ratings — published 1956
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 662,779 ratings — published 1995
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as existential)
avg rating 4.16 — 106,056 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,991,534 ratings — published 1951
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as existential)
avg rating 4.40 — 409,865 ratings — published 1879
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as existential)
avg rating 4.14 — 251,900 ratings — published 1886
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as existential)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,710,857 ratings — published 1949
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,297,705 ratings — published 1963
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,349 ratings — published 1947
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.07 — 182,484 ratings — published 1883
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as existential)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,720,999 ratings — published 1988
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,708 ratings — published 1942
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,582,684 ratings — published 1943
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 49,019 ratings — published 1946
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as existential)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,652 ratings — published 1962
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,519,863 ratings — published 1969
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,980,233 ratings — published 1890
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 4.41 — 845,788 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 3.85 — 903,575 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,140,002 ratings — published 1932
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 48,568 ratings — published 1944
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 4.39 — 39,671 ratings — published 1982
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,457 ratings — published 1947
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 530,974 ratings — published 1968
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.59 — 610,816 ratings — published 2018
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 764,185 ratings — published 1987
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.18 — 660,789 ratings — published 1996
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 27,250 ratings — published 1971
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,806 ratings — published 1943
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,163 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 — 79,018 ratings — published 1864
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 328,427 ratings — published 2014
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.36 — 292,440 ratings — published 1965
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,985,212 ratings — published 1818
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,891 ratings — published 1890
“I leaned back on my palms, looking at the Milky Way spilling in modest grandeur across the sky. A fountain of stars frothing over, surrounded by a mist of stardust. It looked like raw magic, like the glimmer I’d spy in a shadowy corner where the sun skimmed off invisible particles, reminding me there was a whole hidden world tucked inside this ordinary one. And it was up there every night, offering its mute beauty while we sat here with our heads down, tragically terrestrial.”
― Unteachable
― Unteachable
“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
