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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,516,943 ratings — published 1942
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.07 — 183,277 ratings — published 1883
Fathers and Sons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.01 — 105,698 ratings — published 1862
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,954 ratings — published 1973
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.01 — 10,029 ratings — published 2011
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.03 — 119,939 ratings — published 1886
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.16 — 257,102 ratings — published 1864
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,838 ratings — published 1932
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,151 ratings — published 1949
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.31 — 67,499 ratings — published 1871
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.18 — 662,654 ratings — published 1996
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,150,795 ratings — published 1866
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.92 — 285,468 ratings — published 1948
Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.75 — 351 ratings — published 2007
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,954 ratings — published 2011
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.12 — 38,017 ratings — published 1887
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.16 — 107,523 ratings — published 1942
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,886 ratings — published 1943
The Will to Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,476 ratings — published 1901
Blessed is the Flame: An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.31 — 479 ratings — published 2016
Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,165 ratings — published 1994
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (An Essay in Atheistic Religion)
by (shelved 14 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.97 — 646 ratings — published 1992
On the Heights of Despair (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,756 ratings — published 1934
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.26 — 21,379 ratings — published 1882
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.62 — 106,294 ratings — published 1985
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,544,642 ratings — published 1915
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 13 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.02 — 145,060 ratings — published 1956
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.84 — 228,325 ratings — published 1951
Nihilism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
by (shelved 10 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.80 — 747 ratings — published 2019
The Elementary Particles (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 52,584 ratings — published 1998
The Specter of the Absurd: Sources and Criticisms of Modern Nihilism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.97 — 37 ratings — published 1988
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,925 ratings — published 1942
The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.15 — 144 ratings — published 1949
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,869 ratings — published 1973
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.93 — 146,464 ratings — published 1938
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.93 — 419,615 ratings — published 1925
The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,545 ratings — published
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.00 — 790,725 ratings — published 1962
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,698 ratings — published 1927
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.02 — 331,283 ratings — published 1947
Twilight of the Idols (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 15,245 ratings — published 1889
Nihilists; Russian Radicals and Revolutionaries in the Reign of Alexander II, 1855-81. (Pageant of History Series)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 2.54 — 13 ratings — published 1967
The Ego and Its Own (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,106 ratings — published 1844
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.80 — 380,459 ratings — published 1991
Laughing at Nothing: Humor as a Response to Nihilism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.91 — 76 ratings — published 2003
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,343 ratings — published 1871
المياه كلها بلون الغرق (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,047 ratings — published 1952
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,738,398 ratings — published 1949
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.90 — 99,284 ratings — published 1970
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.40 — 412,409 ratings — published 1879
“Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a needed counterbalance to shallow optimism and arrogant confidence in human power. Nihilism reminds us that we are not gods, and that despite all of the accomplishments and wonders of civilization, humans cannot alter the fact that they possess only a finite amount of mastery and control over their own destinies.”
― Laughing at Nothing: Humor as a Response to Nihilism
― Laughing at Nothing: Humor as a Response to Nihilism
“Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
