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Existential Fiction Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,492,221 ratings — published 1942
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 145,122 ratings — published 1938
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,517,820 ratings — published 1915
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 414,821 ratings — published 1925
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 327,581 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 11 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 143,052 ratings — published 1956
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,136,308 ratings — published 1866
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 27,061 ratings — published 1971
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 251,328 ratings — published 1864
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 561,840 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 — 78,965 ratings — published 1864
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,570 ratings — published 1890
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 227,366 ratings — published 1951
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 223,568 ratings — published 1927
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 248,672 ratings — published 1886
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 104,789 ratings — published 1942
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 279,230 ratings — published 1948
The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,610 ratings — published 1945
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,380 ratings — published 1962
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 407,595 ratings — published 1879
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 905,202 ratings — published 1922
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 642,096 ratings — published 1995
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 66,099 ratings — published 1871
The Rebel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,654 ratings — published 1951
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,477 ratings — published 1949
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 79,001 ratings — published 1926
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 322,726 ratings — published 1994
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.76 — 308,189 ratings — published 1759
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,981,189 ratings — published 1951
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,081,373 ratings — published 1601
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,704,810 ratings — published 1988
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,084 ratings — published 1967
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,329 ratings — published 1947
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 529,109 ratings — published 1968
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 659,171 ratings — published 1996
The Tartar Steppe (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 45,698 ratings — published 1940
Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,060 ratings — published 1915
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 228,077 ratings — published 1869
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,289,295 ratings — published 1963
The Hour of the Star (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 63,464 ratings — published 1977
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 208,486 ratings — published 2013
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,133,438 ratings — published 1932
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,969,323 ratings — published 1890
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 441,725 ratings — published 1967
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,759 ratings — published 1952
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 39,468 ratings — published 1982
Hopscotch (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,831 ratings — published 1963
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 127,576 ratings — published 1969
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 27,678 ratings — published 1939
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 48,395 ratings — published 1944
“To those who claim I lack respect for the human race — I will say that, after all, I removed the phrase ‘depressed neurotic monkeys’ from all the places in the book; and not just because I like and respect monkeys. What does that tell you?”
― The Weather Forecast in Hell
― The Weather Forecast in Hell
“There were times, while Atom slept and she was awake soothing her crying daughter, that a question itched from somewhere deep within. This "unsolved mystery" that Atom spoke of: It was all in the past, her mind insisted, as that's what her husband had promised. But she couldn't let it go, so eventually she had to ask. "Why did these ghost people emerge and then just vanish in your world?”
― Return to Planet Earth
― Return to Planet Earth
