Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Republic by PlatoCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantMeditations by Marcus AureliusFrom Darkness Into Light by A. Helwa
Best World Philosophy Book
159th out of 955 books — 1,426 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Books Ever
9268th out of 78,428 books — 292,357 voters

The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon PadgettSanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno SchulzThe Nightwatches of Bonaventura by Ernst August Friedrich Klin...In the Dust of This Planet by Eugene ThackerThe Trouble With Being Born by Emil M. Cioran
Ligottian
5th out of 58 books — 22 voters
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiBeing and Nothingness by Jean-Paul SartreThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusBetter Never to Have Been by David BenatarThe Trouble With Being Born by Emil M. Cioran
Books Rustin Cohle would have read!
5th out of 103 books — 25 voters

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiThe King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories by Robert W. ChambersGalveston by Nic PizzolattoThe Stranger by Albert CamusTime is a Flat Circle by Melissa Milazzo
HBO's True Detective
21st out of 115 books — 118 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Sonemic / Rate Your Music: Favorite Books
123rd out of 1,059 books — 195 voters

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyNicomachean Ethics by AristotleHuman, All Too Human by Friedrich NietzscheThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusThe World as Will and Representation, Volume II by Arthur Schopenhauer
Realism
12th out of 101 books — 10 voters

The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserSavage Inequalities by Jonathan KozolThe Wordy Shipmates by Sarah VowellRelish by Lucy KnisleyWaiter Rant by Steve Dublanica
All Non-Fiction on Goodreads with 10,000 to 24,999 ratings
341st out of 920 books — 39 voters
Troubled Blood by Robert GalbraithBad Luck and Trouble by Lee ChildThe Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele RichardsonGet in Trouble by Kelly LinkTrouble with Lichen by John Wyndham
"Trouble" Please Be Kind
12th out of 203 books — 17 voters

When Secrets Bloom by Patricia  FurstenbergNostalgia by Mircea CărtărescuFEM by Magda CârneciA Short History of Decay by Emil M. CioranThe Temptation to Exist by Emil M. Cioran
Translated Romanian Literature
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The Republic by PlatoLetters from a Stoic by SenecaThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliMeditations by Marcus AureliusBeyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Best Popular Philosophy Books on Goodreads
104th out of 329 books — 53 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
3052nd out of 7,878 books — 49,834 voters
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaLibidinal Economy by Jean-François LyotardThe Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert  BurtonPersuasion and Rhetoric by Carlo MichelstaedterThe Nag Hammadi Library by Unknown Nag Hammadi
World-Sadness
14th out of 108 books — 10 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Masters Of Misery
100th out of 407 books — 100 voters
Hegel by Peter SingerRide the Tiger by Julius EvolaHans-Georg Gadamer by Karl SimmsHeidegger by Michael J. InwoodEros and the Mysteries of Love by Julius Evola
Neitik Nivruti Reads-1
69th out of 100 books — 1 voter

Amerika by Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz KafkaThe Castle by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
Astrid
80th out of 100 books — 1 voter
The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaHamlet by William ShakespeareFranz Kafka by Franz KafkaAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Doomer Side
24th out of 75 books — 3 voters

The Trouble With Being Born by Emil M. CioranGravity and Grace by Simone WeilSocial Foundations of Thought and Action by Albert BanduraIdeology and Utopia by Karl MannheimDiagnosis of Our Time by Karl Mannheim
Books I’ve shredded
1st out of 18 books — 1 voter
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanAlive by Piers Paul ReadAll the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinThe Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1970s
45th out of 276 books — 24 voters

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiExtinction by Thomas BernhardJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineSelected Writings by Antonin ArtaudHow It Is by Samuel Beckett
guide to doom lit
7th out of 62 books — 1 voter
On the Road by Jack KerouacGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinAnother Country by James BaldwinThe Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. BallardThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
2024 DC'S READS
39th out of 48 books — 1 voter

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklPeter the Great by Robert K. MassieThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century
212th out of 457 books — 113 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Vegetarian by Han KangAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerConfusion by Stefan ZweigThe Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
2025 TBR
19th out of 27 books — 2 voters

The Tartar Steppe by Dino BuzzatiNo Longer Human by Osamu DazaiThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughTo Live by Yu HuaThe Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
/lit/ guide to depressing literature
29th out of 46 books — 2 voters
Gravity and Grace by Simone WeilThe New Gods by Emil M. CioranOn the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich NietzscheThe Trouble With Being Born by Emil M. CioranRegarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
(to read) various philosophy and theory
4th out of 23 books — 1 voter

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghThe Pisces by Melissa BroderThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusThe Trouble With Being Born by Emil M. CioranLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Unseen. Unmoored.
4th out of 20 books — 1 voter
Better Never to Have Been by David BenatarThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiEssays and Aphorisms by Arthur SchopenhauerIn the Buddha's Words by Venerable Bhikkhu BodhiThe Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha by Bhikkhu Bodhi
Philosophical Pessimist Literature
11th out of 29 books — 2 voters

God's Problem by Bart D. EhrmanThe Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellЗаписки от скуки by Yoshida KenkōDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickKybalion by Three Initiates
RREADLISTT
23rd out of 27 books — 1 voter
Rimbaud by Arthur RimbaudThe Flowers of Evil by Charles BaudelairePoems of Paul Verlaine by Paul VerlaineCollected Poems and Other Verse by Stéphane MallarméStory of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Nihilistic, melancholic, young man-core.
11th out of 52 books — 1 voter

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