Big Books of 2026
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Existentialism

Existentialism is a philosophical movement that claims that individual human beings have full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own lives. It is a reaction against more traditional philosophies, such as rationalism and empiricism, which sought to discover an ultimate order in metaphysical principles or in the structure of the observed world.

Existentialism Books

The Stranger
Nausea
The Plague
The Metamorphosis
Existentialism is a Humanism
The Trial
The Myth of Sisyphus
Being and Nothingness
The Fall
Notes from Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Man's Search for Meaning
Waiting for Godot
Fear and Trembling
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataConversations with Friends by Sally RooneyBoy Parts by Eliza Clark
women vs the void
232 books — 581 voters
Absurd Incredulity. Inconceivable Calamity by Mark ComstockDas Kapital by Karl MarxWho Banged the Big Bang! by Prabha KaranThink Like a Stoic by Ken MogiRealising The All (God?) Journeying into Feelings and Beyond by Winfried Sedhoff
Best Philosophy Books of All Time
16 books — 7 voters

Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoycePhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 364 voters
From Here to Eternity by Caitlin DoughtySmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyThe Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die by John B. IzzoWhen Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. YalomThe Good Death by Ann Neumann
Death Kills Us, But the Idea of Death Saves Us
44 books — 15 voters

The Occult by Colin WilsonBeyond the Occult by Colin WilsonMysteries by Colin WilsonReligion and The Rebel by Colin WilsonThe Outsider by Colin Wilson
Best of Colin Wilson
26 books — 6 voters
The Shallows by Nicholas CarrUprooted by Peter J. BoniThe Soul Snatchers by Richard SanfordDigital Madness by Nicholas KardarasThe Circle by Dave Eggers
Books that Challenge Big Tech and the Digital Age
41 books — 24 voters

Quotes Tagged “Existentialism”

Friedrich Nietzsche
“ Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. ”
― Nietzsche
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Samuel Beckett
“ I can't go on, I'll go on. ...more ”
― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
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