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Existential Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,422,841 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as existential)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,449,347 ratings — published 1915
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 140,883 ratings — published 1938
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as existential)
avg rating 4.02 — 318,110 ratings — published 1947
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as existential)
avg rating 3.94 — 400,094 ratings — published 1925
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as existential)
avg rating 4.37 — 889,223 ratings — published 1946
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as existential)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,094,765 ratings — published 1866
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 234,722 ratings — published 1864
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 548,558 ratings — published 1984
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as existential)
avg rating 3.84 — 223,584 ratings — published 1951
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 217,452 ratings — published 1927
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as existential)
avg rating 4.08 — 883,976 ratings — published 1922
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,497,902 ratings — published 2020
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 47 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 137,300 ratings — published 1956
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as existential)
avg rating 3.94 — 259,975 ratings — published 1948
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as existential)
avg rating 4.15 — 67,960 ratings — published 2011
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,915,204 ratings — published 1951
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 509,462 ratings — published 1995
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 96,822 ratings — published 1942
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as existential)
avg rating 4.39 — 391,353 ratings — published 1880
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as existential)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,521,093 ratings — published 1948
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as existential)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,238,595 ratings — published 1963
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,602,775 ratings — published 1988
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.14 — 228,946 ratings — published 1886
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 30,116 ratings — published 1947
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.21 — 65,708 ratings — published 1942
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,503,079 ratings — published 1943
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 3.88 — 39,878 ratings — published 1962
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.07 — 178,024 ratings — published
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 47,066 ratings — published 1946
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,902,064 ratings — published 1890
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,491,117 ratings — published 1969
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as existential)
avg rating 4.41 — 815,461 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existential)
avg rating 3.85 — 864,641 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,091,519 ratings — published 1932
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 47,130 ratings — published 1944
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.39 — 38,104 ratings — published 1982
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.18 — 646,787 ratings — published 1996
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,230 ratings — published 1943
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.60 — 573,483 ratings — published 2018
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 736,989 ratings — published 1987
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,896 ratings — published 1971
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,162 ratings — published 1947
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,324 ratings — published 1967
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 516,776 ratings — published 1968
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 737,901 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 — 78,624 ratings — published 1864
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,106 ratings — published 1973
Existential Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.46 — 7,301 ratings — published 1980
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,059,314 ratings — published 1601
“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
“Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.”
― Markings
― Markings
