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Existential Dread Books
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No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 273,005 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,470,036 ratings — published 1942
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.16 — 245,995 ratings — published 1864
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,496,757 ratings — published 1915
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,273,588 ratings — published 1963
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 143,794 ratings — published 1938
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.06 — 602,961 ratings — published 1995
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.14 — 86,343 ratings — published 2011
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,357 ratings — published 1942
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.16 — 102,253 ratings — published 1942
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.98 — 753,128 ratings — published 1987
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.95 — 287,220 ratings — published 1993
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.88 — 136,668 ratings — published 2018
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,082,818 ratings — published 1992
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.59 — 595,324 ratings — published 2018
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.94 — 410,339 ratings — published 1925
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.77 — 441,463 ratings — published 2017
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.84 — 95,626 ratings — published 2021
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,123,146 ratings — published 1866
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,634,864 ratings — published 1948
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,066,505 ratings — published 2006
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,961,114 ratings — published 1951
The Days of Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.86 — 61,482 ratings — published 2002
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.06 — 397,952 ratings — published 1848
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.39 — 39,077 ratings — published 1982
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.85 — 888,188 ratings — published 2005
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.00 — 429,074 ratings — published 2019
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 324,721 ratings — published 1947
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 169,937 ratings — published 2009
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.89 — 59,539 ratings — published 1967
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,576,114 ratings — published 2020
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.69 — 150,345 ratings — published 1994
All the Lovers in the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.67 — 55,126 ratings — published 2011
Água Viva (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,979 ratings — published 1973
Radio Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 130,482 ratings — published 2016
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.27 — 974,670 ratings — published 2015
The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.64 — 111,590 ratings — published 2017
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.40 — 180,783 ratings — published 2010
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.56 — 134,092 ratings — published 2015
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,302 ratings — published 2019
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.80 — 108,323 ratings — published 2017
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.10 — 557,704 ratings — published 1984
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.98 — 48,218 ratings — published 1946
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,650 ratings — published 1973
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.20 — 528,081 ratings — published 2020
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.77 — 367,011 ratings — published 1925
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.79 — 503,555 ratings — published 1926
Madonna in a Fur Coat (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.30 — 122,322 ratings — published 1943
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.11 — 48,038 ratings — published 1944
Ripe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,577 ratings — published 2023
“Nobody really worries much about what is going to happen millions of years hence. Even if they think they are worrying about that, they are really deceiving themselves. They are worried about something much more mundane, or it may merely be a bad digestion; but nobody is really seriously rendered unhappy by the thought of something that is going to happen to this world millions and millions of years hence. Therefore, although it is of course a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out -- at least I suppose we may say so, although sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation -- it is not such as to render life miserable. It merely makes you turn your attention to other things.”
― Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
― Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“He doesn’t lock the door anymore—not out of courage, but quiet desperation. Each night, he lies there, hollowed and waiting, hoping a stranger might cross the threshold and finish the story he can’t bring himself to end. It isn’t bravery. It’s surrender in disguise. He doesn’t wish for peace, not even sleep—just an ending that isn’t authored by his own hand. A final act. A random mercy. That’s all he asks.”
― Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
― Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
