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Existentialist Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,482,122 ratings — published 1942
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.93 — 144,536 ratings — published 1938
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,507,987 ratings — published 1915
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 326,288 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 22 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 142,166 ratings — published 1956
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.84 — 226,889 ratings — published 1951
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,130,267 ratings — published 1866
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.93 — 412,809 ratings — published 1925
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,484 ratings — published 1942
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.16 — 248,983 ratings — published 1864
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.39 — 405,392 ratings — published 1879
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,672 ratings — published 1943
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.10 — 559,901 ratings — published 1984
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.98 — 48,556 ratings — published 1946
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,822 ratings — published 1843
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 222,591 ratings — published 1927
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.16 — 103,645 ratings — published 1942
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 181,177 ratings — published 1883
The Rebel (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,582 ratings — published 1951
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.37 — 918,537 ratings — published 1946
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.11 — 48,235 ratings — published 1944
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,972,072 ratings — published 1951
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.09 — 901,957 ratings — published 1922
El túnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 99,822 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 — 78,913 ratings — published 1864
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.14 — 245,093 ratings — published 1886
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,999 ratings — published 1967
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.12 — 37,446 ratings — published 1887
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,180 ratings — published 1962
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,657 ratings — published 1843
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,466 ratings — published 1927
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,909 ratings — published 1971
Exile and the Kingdom (Vintage International)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.83 — 16,398 ratings — published 1957
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 118,248 ratings — published 1886
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,661,881 ratings — published 1948
Existentialism and Human Emotions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,015 ratings — published 1957
At the Existentialist Café (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.24 — 19,877 ratings — published 2016
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.39 — 39,302 ratings — published 1982
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 227,001 ratings — published 1869
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,645 ratings — published 1926
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,544 ratings — published 1945
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.30 — 65,796 ratings — published 1871
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 — 21,136 ratings — published 1882
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,702 ratings — published 1949
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,431 ratings — published 1952
The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.99 — 16,543 ratings — published 1945
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.28 — 439,510 ratings — published 1967
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 27,609 ratings — published 1939
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,382 ratings — published 1947
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,700 ratings — published 1958
“the world weighed heavily upon him. What did the world weigh? It weighs, but is not weighed. Sometimes its scales are crooked. It weighs life and labor in the balance against silver and gold. That’ll never balance. But fast and ruthless, it keeps on weighing. It spills a lot of life that way, and sometimes a little gold.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“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
