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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,518,982 ratings — published 1942
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 146,733 ratings — published 1938
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,548,782 ratings — published 1915
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 420,535 ratings — published 1925
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 331,919 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 11 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 145,424 ratings — published 1956
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,153,445 ratings — published 1866
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 27,544 ratings — published 1971
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 258,236 ratings — published 1864
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 567,488 ratings — published 1984
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 79,094 ratings — published 1864
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 68,357 ratings — published 1890
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 228,492 ratings — published 1951
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 226,096 ratings — published 1927
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 257,169 ratings — published 1886
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 42,098 ratings — published 1962
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 108,048 ratings — published 1942
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 286,596 ratings — published 1948
The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 16,742 ratings — published 1945
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 413,358 ratings — published 1879
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 914,170 ratings — published 1922
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 533,680 ratings — published 1968
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 691,286 ratings — published 1995
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 67,655 ratings — published 1871
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,871 ratings — published 1951
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,685 ratings — published 1949
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 80,019 ratings — published 1926
The Hour of the Star (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 66,087 ratings — published 1977
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 325,192 ratings — published 1994
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 206,614 ratings — published 1952
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.76 — 309,924 ratings — published 1759
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,006,484 ratings — published 1951
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,088,698 ratings — published 1601
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,744,029 ratings — published 1988
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,269 ratings — published 1967
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 362,872 ratings — published 1995
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,383 ratings — published 1947
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 663,252 ratings — published 1996
The Tartar Steppe (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 46,950 ratings — published 1940
Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,233 ratings — published 1915
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 231,278 ratings — published 1869
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,309,709 ratings — published 1963
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 210,137 ratings — published 2013
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,149,882 ratings — published 1932
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,995,953 ratings — published 1890
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 448,368 ratings — published 1925
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 40,003 ratings — published 1982
Hopscotch (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 51,350 ratings — published 1963
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 128,737 ratings — published 1969
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 27,878 ratings — published 1939
“Se pregunta si todo lo que hizo para ser feliz no fue demasiada infelicidad. Ahora se da cuenta de que la felicidad no era lo que pensaba. Tal vez la felicidad está en las ganas de ser feliz.”
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