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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,502,124 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as existential)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,528,874 ratings — published 1915
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 145,752 ratings — published 1938
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as existential)
avg rating 4.02 — 329,122 ratings — published 1947
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 417,100 ratings — published 1925
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as existential)
avg rating 4.37 — 928,093 ratings — published 1946
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 564,114 ratings — published 1984
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as existential)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,143,308 ratings — published 1866
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as existential)
avg rating 4.16 — 254,099 ratings — published 1864
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 102,595 ratings — published 2011
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as existential)
avg rating 3.84 — 227,845 ratings — published 1951
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 224,578 ratings — published 1927
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 908,770 ratings — published 1922
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as existential)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,636,187 ratings — published 2020
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 282,291 ratings — published 1948
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 48 times as existential)
avg rating 4.02 — 143,982 ratings — published 1956
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 662,807 ratings — published 1995
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as existential)
avg rating 4.16 — 106,057 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,991,555 ratings — published 1951
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as existential)
avg rating 4.40 — 409,871 ratings — published 1879
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as existential)
avg rating 4.14 — 251,911 ratings — published 1886
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as existential)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,710,896 ratings — published 1949
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,297,727 ratings — published 1963
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,349 ratings — published 1947
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.07 — 182,485 ratings — published 1883
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as existential)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,721,036 ratings — published 1988
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,708 ratings — published 1942
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,582,704 ratings — published 1943
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 49,019 ratings — published 1946
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as existential)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,653 ratings — published 1962
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,519,872 ratings — published 1969
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,980,250 ratings — published 1890
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 4.41 — 845,793 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 3.85 — 903,588 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,140,018 ratings — published 1932
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 48,568 ratings — published 1944
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 4.39 — 39,671 ratings — published 1982
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,457 ratings — published 1947
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 530,978 ratings — published 1968
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.59 — 610,828 ratings — published 2018
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 764,190 ratings — published 1987
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.18 — 660,795 ratings — published 1996
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 27,250 ratings — published 1971
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,806 ratings — published 1943
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,164 ratings — published 1967
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.19 — 79,018 ratings — published 1864
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 328,432 ratings — published 2014
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.36 — 292,451 ratings — published 1965
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,985,237 ratings — published 1818
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,891 ratings — published 1890
“The human psyche evolved in order to defend itself against seeing the truth. To prevent us from catching sight of the mechanism. The psyche is our defense system - it makes sure we'll never understand what's going on around us. Its main task is to filter information, even though the capabilities of our brains are enormous. For it would be impossible for us to carry the weight of this knowledge. Because every tiny particle of the world is made of suffering.”
― Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych
― Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych
“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
