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Existential Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,368,128 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as existential)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,392,601 ratings — published
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 137,700 ratings — published 1938
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as existential)
avg rating 4.02 — 310,010 ratings — published 1947
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as existential)
avg rating 3.94 — 388,567 ratings — published 1925
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as existential)
avg rating 4.37 — 859,960 ratings — published 1946
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 537,309 ratings — published 1984
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 221,585 ratings — published 1864
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as existential)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,059,973 ratings — published 1866
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as existential)
avg rating 3.84 — 220,452 ratings — published 1951
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 212,476 ratings — published 1927
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as existential)
avg rating 4.08 — 866,485 ratings — published 1922
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,391,682 ratings — published 2020
The Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 132,638 ratings — published 1956
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,857,063 ratings — published 1951
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as existential)
avg rating 3.95 — 244,308 ratings — published 1948
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 90,247 ratings — published 1942
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as existential)
avg rating 4.16 — 54,953 ratings — published 2011
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as existential)
avg rating 4.39 — 380,924 ratings — published 1880
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as existential)
avg rating 4.12 — 407,813 ratings — published 1995
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as existential)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,369,572 ratings — published 1949
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as existential)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,196,706 ratings — published 1963
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,959 ratings — published 1947
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.22 — 64,800 ratings — published 1942
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,435,726 ratings — published 1943
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as existential)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,515,244 ratings — published 1988
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as existential)
avg rating 4.14 — 216,352 ratings — published 1886
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,842,757 ratings — published 1890
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 3.88 — 38,793 ratings — published 1962
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,471,405 ratings — published 1969
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.07 — 174,018 ratings — published 1883
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 45,626 ratings — published 1946
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as existential)
avg rating 4.41 — 792,369 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 3.85 — 839,945 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,054,547 ratings — published 1932
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 46,095 ratings — published 1944
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.40 — 37,051 ratings — published 1982
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.18 — 638,036 ratings — published 1996
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,976 ratings — published 1947
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 34,774 ratings — published 1943
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 92,619 ratings — published 1967
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 3.60 — 550,446 ratings — published 2018
Existential Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.46 — 7,158 ratings — published 1980
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 700,789 ratings — published 2016
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,038,646 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 — 78,352 ratings — published 1864
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 64,090 ratings — published 1890
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 718,369 ratings — published 1987
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,349 ratings — published 1932
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 3.81 — 24,865 ratings — published 1971
“I close my eyes
Only for a moment,
then the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity...
Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground,
though we refuse to see...
Now, don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever
but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money
won't another minute buy...
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind."
(Kansas guitarist Kerry Livgren wrote this after reading a book of Native American poetry. The line that caught his attention was "For All We Are Is Dust In The Wind.")”
―
Only for a moment,
then the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity...
Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground,
though we refuse to see...
Now, don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever
but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money
won't another minute buy...
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind."
(Kansas guitarist Kerry Livgren wrote this after reading a book of Native American poetry. The line that caught his attention was "For All We Are Is Dust In The Wind.")”
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“Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.”
― The Romeo and Juliet Code
― The Romeo and Juliet Code
