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Existentialist Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,458,197 ratings — published 1942
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.93 — 143,032 ratings — published 1938
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,483,616 ratings — published 1915
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 323,091 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 22 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 140,217 ratings — published 1956
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.84 — 225,693 ratings — published 1951
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,117,263 ratings — published 1866
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.94 — 407,956 ratings — published 1925
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,207 ratings — published 1942
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.16 — 243,268 ratings — published 1864
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.39 — 400,192 ratings — published 1880
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,503 ratings — published 1943
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.10 — 555,601 ratings — published 1984
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.98 — 47,923 ratings — published 1946
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,434 ratings — published 1843
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 180,365 ratings — published 1883
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 220,628 ratings — published 1927
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.16 — 100,921 ratings — published 1942
The Rebel (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,393 ratings — published 1951
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.37 — 904,463 ratings — published 1946
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.11 — 47,809 ratings — published 1944
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,950,601 ratings — published 1951
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.09 — 894,999 ratings — published 1922
El túnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 98,438 ratings — published 1948
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.19 — 78,790 ratings — published 1864
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.14 — 237,481 ratings — published 1886
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,756 ratings — published 1967
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,831 ratings — published 1887
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,642 ratings — published 1962
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,567 ratings — published 1843
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,288 ratings — published 1927
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,519 ratings — published 1971
Exile and the Kingdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.83 — 16,236 ratings — published 1957
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,037 ratings — published 1886
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,608,460 ratings — published 1948
Existentialism and Human Emotions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,002 ratings — published 1957
At the Existentialist Café (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.24 — 19,707 ratings — published 2016
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.39 — 38,860 ratings — published 1982
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 224,351 ratings — published 1869
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,775 ratings — published 1926
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,511 ratings — published 1945
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.30 — 65,060 ratings — published 1872
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,975 ratings — published 1882
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,321 ratings — published 1949
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,495 ratings — published 1952
The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,354 ratings — published 1945
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.28 — 434,320 ratings — published 1967
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 27,433 ratings — published 1939
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,295 ratings — published 1947
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,689 ratings — published 1958
“Dying with hopelessness is to die in despair. Hope is to know the certainty of uncertainness. It is not to quantify the uncertainness as this act itself is the act in despair, but it is to know the certainty of the existence of uncertainness. To know how certain is the ‘uncertain’. The temporality of existence is uncertain, and to know the certainty of that uncertainness is to know the inevitability of death.”
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
“Maybe there exists an inherent contradiction in our desires. Maybe this is the reason why we never feel contentment even after the fulfilment of our desires. Maybe we desire actually of a ‘continuous desire’ or persistence of a desire and not its ‘fulfilment’ as such.”
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
