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The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Absurdist Fiction
314 books — 287 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisThe Odyssey by Homer
Quests
422 books — 203 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 — 197 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingAlien Earths by Lisa KalteneggerThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsCosmos by Carl Sagan
Get Smart!
253 books — 113 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold1984 by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois LowryLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books With A Hidden Deeper Meaning
98 books — 95 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

Steppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryDemian by Hermann HesseThe Prophet by Kahlil GibranSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Novels for thought
98 books — 35 voters
TaoTuning by Adrian EmeryA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleBeyond Religion by Dalai Lama XIVThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskySiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Nerdfighter Spiritual List
112 books — 34 voters

A Leopard Never Changes its Spots by Hilary LawrenceThe Grass May Not Be Greener by Hilary LawrenceLoose Lips Sink Ships by Hilary LawrenceTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeWrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl Wiggins
The Books that Made Me Who I Am
61 books — 26 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceHard Wired by Jebb A. RebalWake the Wicked by Christian Baloga
Most Badass Young Adult Books of All Time
27 books — 21 voters

Braided Love by Jo Elizabeth PintoTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteHorton Hears a Who! by Dr. SeussThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Good stories that address a social iceberg
22 books — 20 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

Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer KnaflicData Visualisation by Andy KirkThe Functional Art by Alberto CairoInformation Dashboard Design by Stephen FewEnvisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
Visualization Part 1
102 books — 8 voters
How Not to Drown by Jaimee WristonOrange Is the New Black by Piper KermanThat Will Never Work by Marc RandolphThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Orange is the New Black Netflix Original Series Books for Women in Prison
54 books — 7 voters

Signs Taken for Wonders by Franco MorettiProfessor Borges by Jorge Luis BorgesPoetry and Designs by William BlakeAnatomy of Criticism by Northrop FryeThe Pound Era by Hugh Kenner
Works of Literary Theory And Criticism
90 books — 7 voters
Deep Listening by Emily KasrielThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellOutliers by Malcolm GladwellMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
Thinking Outside The Box
11 books — 7 voters

Life Application Study Bible by AnonymousThe Erotic Adventures of Paul Bunyan by R.K. GalagaPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenOn the Incarnation by Athanasius of AlexandriaPower Of... Framemaker 4 for Windows by David B. Doty
Best Books For Life (Trolled)
25 books — 3 voters
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles DeleuzeSpecters of Marx by Jacques DerridaDifference and Repetition by Gilles DeleuzeDiscipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
Post-structuralist philosophy
4 books — 2 voters

Strange Rites by Tara Isabella BurtonDepression and the Erosion of the Self in Late Modernity by Barbara DowdsRecapture the Rapture by Jamie WhealThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Plague by Albert Camus
Meaning Crisis
21 books — 2 voters
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert GreeneMeditations by Marcus AureliusMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklAtomic Habits by James ClearIllustrated Study Bible NLT by Anonymous
Defence Against the Dark Arts
16 books — 2 voters

Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. DennettA Theology for the Rest of Us by Arthur YavelbergThe Meaning of Life by The School of LifeThe Monk and the Philosopher by Jean-François RevelThe Meaning of Life by Terry Eagleton
Meaning of Life
31 books — 2 voters
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Henry Watson FowlerSocial sciences as sorcery by Stanislav Andreski
English language and usage
2 books — 1 voter

Cool Infographics by Randy KrumDear Data by Giorgia LupiDesigning Data Visualizations by Noah IliinskyExcel 2007 Dashboards and Reports For Dummies by Michael Alexanderggplot2 by Hadley Wickham
Visualization Part 2
12 books — 1 voter
Meaning in Life and Why It Matters by Susan R. WolfMeanings of Life by Roy F. BaumeisterMaps of Meaning by Jordan B. PetersonZombies in Western Culture by John Vervaeke
Sense-making
4 books — 1 voter

Film Music by Juan ChattahEmbodied Cognition and Cinema by Mark JohnsonFilm as Embodied Art by Maarten CoëgnartsPsychology of Music by Siu-Lan TanMusic as Image by Benjamin Nagari
Film Music Cognition
14 books — 1 voter
Directionality of Humankind's Development. History by Victor TorvichSubsurface History of Humanity by Victor TorvichMeaning of Human History by Morris R. CohenThe Meaning of History by Erich von KahlerThe Meaning of History by Henri-Irénée Marrou
Meaning of Humankind's History
25 books — 1 voter

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