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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,509,765 ratings — published 1942
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.93 — 146,029 ratings — published 1938
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,533,880 ratings — published 1915
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 330,311 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 21 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 144,445 ratings — published 1956
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.84 — 228,029 ratings — published 1951
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,146,421 ratings — published 1866
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.93 — 418,163 ratings — published 1925
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,764 ratings — published 1942
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.16 — 255,346 ratings — published 1864
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.40 — 410,891 ratings — published 1879
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,839 ratings — published 1943
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.10 — 565,130 ratings — published 1984
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.98 — 49,151 ratings — published 1946
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.00 — 33,178 ratings — published 1843
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 225,043 ratings — published 1927
El túnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.01 — 101,514 ratings — published 1948
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 182,798 ratings — published 1883
The Rebel (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,771 ratings — published 1951
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.37 — 930,297 ratings — published 1946
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.11 — 48,635 ratings — published 1944
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.16 — 106,729 ratings — published 1942
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.14 — 253,452 ratings — published 1886
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,194 ratings — published 1967
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.12 — 37,912 ratings — published 1887
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,996,140 ratings — published 1951
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.09 — 910,367 ratings — published 1922
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,775 ratings — published 1962
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,749 ratings — published 1843
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,648 ratings — published 1927
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 27,343 ratings — published 1971
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 119,608 ratings — published 1886
Existentialism and Human Emotions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,033 ratings — published 1957
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.19 — 79,039 ratings — published 1864
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.39 — 39,754 ratings — published 1982
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 229,953 ratings — published 1869
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.91 — 79,581 ratings — published 1926
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,576 ratings — published 1945
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 — 21,326 ratings — published 1882
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,988 ratings — published 1949
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.92 — 206,255 ratings — published 1952
The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.99 — 16,679 ratings — published 1945
Exile and the Kingdom (Vintage International)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.82 — 16,591 ratings — published 1957
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,722,071 ratings — published 1949
At the Existentialist Café (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.24 — 20,031 ratings — published 2016
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 27,788 ratings — published 1939
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.31 — 67,272 ratings — published 1871
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,467 ratings — published 1947
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,710 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,524 ratings — published 1959
“The inception of love has always been for self. We must actualize self-love before portraying it outwards. We must overcome the despair attached to the loneliness before finding other as a companion, or else it’ll be a mere act of escapism which foster dependency.”
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
“The inevitability of death transpires us to acknowledge the absurdity of the worldly existence. Hope precipitates with this awareness as we realize the futility of materialism, including the possession of self as a body in the meaningless world of nothingness. We see death as a greater event than the life itself having meaning as a denouement, freeing us from the clinches of our desires, despairs and memories. We mustn’t attach hope to exterior desires but rather relate it to the inwardness in order to prevent ourselves from the never-ending chase for things which are incidental to existence and not the existence itself.”
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
