102 books
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Existential Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,454,909 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as existential)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,480,543 ratings — published 1915
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 142,819 ratings — published 1938
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as existential)
avg rating 4.02 — 322,656 ratings — published 1947
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as existential)
avg rating 3.94 — 407,221 ratings — published 1925
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as existential)
avg rating 4.37 — 905,806 ratings — published 1946
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 242,451 ratings — published 1864
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as existential)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,115,162 ratings — published 1866
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 554,934 ratings — published 1984
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as existential)
avg rating 3.84 — 225,502 ratings — published 1951
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as existential)
avg rating 4.08 — 893,915 ratings — published 1922
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 220,342 ratings — published 1927
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as existential)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,551,553 ratings — published 2020
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 47 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 139,962 ratings — published 1956
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 268,889 ratings — published 1948
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as existential)
avg rating 4.14 — 79,871 ratings — published 2011
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as existential)
avg rating 4.07 — 576,441 ratings — published 1995
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,947,473 ratings — published 1951
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as existential)
avg rating 4.16 — 100,551 ratings — published 1942
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as existential)
avg rating 4.39 — 399,397 ratings — published 1880
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as existential)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,600,332 ratings — published 1948
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as existential)
avg rating 4.14 — 236,647 ratings — published 1886
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,263,089 ratings — published 1963
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,652,924 ratings — published 1988
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,225 ratings — published 1947
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 47,846 ratings — published 1946
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,152 ratings — published 1942
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,535,147 ratings — published 1943
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.07 — 180,133 ratings — published 1883
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as existential)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,548 ratings — published 1962
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,502,740 ratings — published 1969
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 4.41 — 828,157 ratings — published 2016
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,934,260 ratings — published 1890
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 3.85 — 881,078 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,111,804 ratings — published 1932
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 47,742 ratings — published 1944
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.39 — 38,794 ratings — published 1982
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 748,216 ratings — published 1987
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,281 ratings — published 1947
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,475 ratings — published 1943
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 522,865 ratings — published 1968
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.59 — 588,638 ratings — published 2018
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.18 — 652,794 ratings — published 1996
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,713 ratings — published 1967
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 762,194 ratings — published 2016
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 — 78,771 ratings — published 1864
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,370 ratings — published 1973
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,471 ratings — published 1971
Existential Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.46 — 7,383 ratings — published 1980
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,374 ratings — published 1843
“At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.”
― Great Desires for Absent Things
― Great Desires for Absent Things
“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend












