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The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul SartreThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Best Existential Fiction
449 books — 767 voters
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

The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Philosophical Fiction
318 books — 560 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

The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Existential Works - Oh, What Is The Meaning of Life?
298 books — 199 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Stranger by Albert Camus
These Books Made an IMPACT
138 books — 148 voters

Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb TsipurskyBeyond the Last Time by Noah Tuya
Books For Very Intelligent People
225 books — 136 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaSiddhartha by Hermann HesseCandide by Voltaire
Myth, Meaning, and Experience
269 books — 92 voters

Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskySiddhartha by Hermann Hesseگم شده ای در مه by سید مرتضی مصطفویThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb Tsipursky
MUST READ Philosophical Books
137 books — 87 voters
Journey to the West by Biao WangSiddhartha by Hermann HesseShe Who Rose From Ashes by Sita BennettMaya of the In-between by Sita BennettSteppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Self-discovery, self-reflection, self-awareness
67 books — 65 voters

Sein Und Zeit by Martin HeideggerContributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) by Martin HeideggerThe Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics by Martin HeideggerPoetry, Language, Thought by Martin HeideggerThe Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays by Martin Heidegger
Husserl and Heidegger
120 books — 33 voters
The Matters of Friendship by Rona D. DrinkardLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenMatilda by Roald Dahl
Strong Women Characters in Literary Fiction
31 books — 30 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
How to Cook Everything by Mark BittmanThe Art of Part Time Travel by Matthew LightfootDiscontents by James Wallace BirchMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Books for a Twentysomething Life Crisis
32 books — 21 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 Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail BakhtinPedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireRabelais and His World by Mikhail BakhtinThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninCapitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
theLitCritGuy
100 books — 13 voters

No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul SartreNausea by Jean-Paul SartrePhenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-PontyBeing and Nothingness by Jean-Paul SartreLe mur by Jean-Paul Sartre
Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and de Beauvoir
105 books — 7 voters
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas SowellThe Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich A. HayekThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtThe Writings of William James by William JamesThe Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Erraticus Must Reads
31 books — 7 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
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

Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-PontyMatter and Memory by Henri BergsonMythologies by Roland BarthesThe Imaginary by Jean-Paul SartreWe Have Only This Life to Live by Jean-Paul Sartre
Phun Phrench Filosophy Translations
107 books — 5 voters
Complicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneThe Rooster Bar by John GrishamStories I'd Tell in Bars by Jen LancasterLast Call by Brad Thomas ParsonsThe Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
Women, Stories and Bars
21 books — 5 voters

Reasons and Persons by Derek ParfitThe Most Good You Can Do by Peter SingerThe Methods of Ethics by Henry SidgwickWhat We Owe to Each Other by T.M. ScanlonNatural Goodness by Philippa Foot
The Good Place
47 books — 4 voters
Hangman's Journal by Shashi WarrierMeditations, Objections, and Replies by René DescartesNo Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul SartreThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Sea by John Banville
Sid's Existentialist Reading
7 books — 3 voters

Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul SartreThe Plague by Albert CamusExistentialism by David E. CooperMemoir by Aman TiwariAn Introduction to Existentialism by Robert G. Olson
Existentialism Readings List
27 books — 3 voters
Bröderna Lejonhjärta by Astrid LindgrenDer Tod auf dem Apfelbaum by Kathrin SchärerThe Bell in the Bridge by Ted KooserGræd Blot Hjerte by Glenn RingtvedThe Tree in the Courtyard by Jeff Gottesfeld
Existentialism and death in children's literature
17 books — 3 voters

Tao Te Ching by Lao TzuAt the Existentialist Café by Sarah BakewellThe Existentialist's Survival Guide by Gordon MarinoIntroducing Existentialism by Oscar ZárateExistentialism For Beginners by David Cogswell
Existentialism
10 books — 2 voters
Past Tense by Sacha MardouThe House of My Mother by Shari FrankeTogether by Vivek H. MurthyIt's Not You by Ramani DurvasulaHow to Leave the Mormon Church by Alyssa Grenfell
Novonexus' Book List For Religious Deconstruction
79 books — 1 voter

The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus by Albert CamusThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
In the Mirror of Strength
13 books — 1 voter
The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra (Author)The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William BlakeThe Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoît B. MandelbrotThe Craftsman by Richard Sennett
The Liminal and Consciousness Expanding live side by side
15 books — 1 voter

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