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The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 332,562 ratings — published 1947
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,523,860 ratings — published 1942
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 421,412 ratings — published 1925
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 145,849 ratings — published 1956
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,553,507 ratings — published 1915
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,156,428 ratings — published 1866
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 259,388 ratings — published 1864
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 231,802 ratings — published 1869
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.40 — 414,367 ratings — published 1879
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 108,604 ratings — published 1942
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 67,805 ratings — published 1871
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,894 ratings — published 1951
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.07 — 183,908 ratings — published 1883
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 147,046 ratings — published 1938
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 27,616 ratings — published 1971
In the Penal Colony (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,381 ratings — published 1918
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 38,168 ratings — published 1887
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.26 — 21,440 ratings — published 1882
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 120,362 ratings — published 1886
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.37 — 937,427 ratings — published 1946
Iron in the Soul (The Roads to Freedom, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,813 ratings — published 1949
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.84 — 228,690 ratings — published 1952
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,819 ratings — published 1843
The Reprieve (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,101 ratings — published 1945
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.19 — 79,119 ratings — published 1864
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,391 ratings — published 1947
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 67,013 ratings — published 1942
What Is Existentialism? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,748 ratings — published 1944
A Hunger Artist (Short Prose of Franz Kafka)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,707 ratings — published 1924
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 699,551 ratings — published 1995
The Intriguing Stillness of the Tides (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 5.00 — 5 ratings — published
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.38 — 154 ratings — published
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.06 — 446,663 ratings — published 1848
The Dwarf (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.68 — 8,293 ratings — published 1944
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.09 — 179,501 ratings — published 1304
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.24 — 144,959 ratings — published 2016
Selected Non-Fictions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,387 ratings — published 1999
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,465 ratings — published 2000
The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.71 — 15,324 ratings — published 1000
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.92 — 287,772 ratings — published 1948
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,183 ratings — published 1886
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.95 — 349,334 ratings — published 2009
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 576,175 ratings — published 2002
The Mark of the Sacred (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 79 ratings — published 2009
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,771 ratings — published 1849
The Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.67 — 47,764 ratings — published 1846
The Will to Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,508 ratings — published 1901
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,429 ratings — published 1871
Twilight of the Idols (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.95 — 15,307 ratings — published 1889
The Anti-Christ (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-literature)
avg rating 3.88 — 34,139 ratings — published 1888
“To be utterly innocent would be to be utterly unknown, particularly to oneself.”
― Nightwood
― Nightwood
“In a dream there is always an element of absurdity and confusion--one is never altogether free of the vague feeling that everything is false, that sooner or later one is going to wake up. In a dream things are never crystal clear and real.”
― The Tartar Steppe
― The Tartar Steppe