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Existential Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,348,641 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as existential)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,373,129 ratings — published 1915
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 136,497 ratings — published 1938
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as existential)
avg rating 4.02 — 306,449 ratings — published 1947
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as existential)
avg rating 3.94 — 384,044 ratings — published 1925
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as existential)
avg rating 4.37 — 850,053 ratings — published 1946
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 533,089 ratings — published 1984
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as existential)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,046,846 ratings — published 1866
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 217,109 ratings — published 1864
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as existential)
avg rating 3.84 — 219,118 ratings — published 1951
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 210,316 ratings — published 1927
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as existential)
avg rating 4.08 — 858,973 ratings — published 1922
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,354,738 ratings — published 2020
The Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 130,894 ratings — published 1956
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,837,574 ratings — published 1951
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as existential)
avg rating 3.95 — 238,725 ratings — published 1948
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 87,965 ratings — published 1942
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as existential)
avg rating 4.39 — 376,849 ratings — published 1880
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 50,706 ratings — published 2011
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as existential)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,319,689 ratings — published 1949
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 373,537 ratings — published 1995
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as existential)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,906 ratings — published 1947
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.22 — 64,347 ratings — published 1942
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,182,467 ratings — published 1963
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,485,927 ratings — published 1988
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as existential)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,414,324 ratings — published 1943
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 3.88 — 38,347 ratings — published 1962
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,464,316 ratings — published 1969
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.14 — 212,294 ratings — published 1886
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.07 — 172,396 ratings — published 1883
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,819,938 ratings — published 1890
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 45,105 ratings — published 1946
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as existential)
avg rating 4.41 — 782,027 ratings — published 2016
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 4.40 — 36,587 ratings — published 1982
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 45,634 ratings — published 1944
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.85 — 830,877 ratings — published 2005
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.18 — 634,586 ratings — published 1996
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,888 ratings — published 1947
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 34,567 ratings — published 1943
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 92,432 ratings — published 1967
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,041,704 ratings — published 1932
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 3.61 — 542,073 ratings — published 2018
Existential Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.46 — 7,110 ratings — published 1980
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 687,765 ratings — published 2016
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,031,315 ratings — published 1601
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.19 — 78,227 ratings — published 1864
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 63,484 ratings — published 1890
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,951 ratings — published 1932
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,499 ratings — published 1971
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 503,452 ratings — published 1968
“We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.”
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“I have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.' That's T.S. Eliot, in case you were wondering. An oldie but a goodie. When it came to existential exhaustion, the man was one smart cookie.”
― The City of Mirrors
― The City of Mirrors
