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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,545,354 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as existential)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,577,969 ratings — published 1915
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 148,262 ratings — published 1938
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as existential)
avg rating 4.02 — 336,053 ratings — published 1947
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 426,494 ratings — published 1925
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as existential)
avg rating 4.16 — 264,593 ratings — published 1864
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as existential)
avg rating 4.36 — 947,110 ratings — published 1946
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as existential)
avg rating 4.12 — 124,252 ratings — published 2011
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 572,315 ratings — published 1984
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as existential)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,169,620 ratings — published 1866
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as existential)
avg rating 3.84 — 229,718 ratings — published 1952
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 228,542 ratings — published 1927
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as existential)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,705,938 ratings — published 2020
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 920,649 ratings — published 1922
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as existential)
avg rating 3.92 — 293,420 ratings — published 1948
The Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as existential)
avg rating 4.02 — 147,736 ratings — published 1956
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as existential)
avg rating 4.03 — 735,355 ratings — published 1995
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as existential)
avg rating 4.16 — 111,032 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,027,853 ratings — published 1951
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as existential)
avg rating 4.40 — 419,493 ratings — published 1879
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as existential)
avg rating 4.14 — 266,904 ratings — published 1886
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as existential)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,804,462 ratings — published 1949
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as existential)
avg rating 4.07 — 185,211 ratings — published 1883
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,776,915 ratings — published 1988
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 3.88 — 42,711 ratings — published 1962
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as existential)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,469 ratings — published 1947
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,328,376 ratings — published 1963
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.21 — 67,292 ratings — published 1942
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,022,534 ratings — published 1890
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as existential)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,534,081 ratings — published 1969
Demian (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as existential)
avg rating 4.13 — 224,095 ratings — published 1919
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as existential)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,624,588 ratings — published 1943
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 50,022 ratings — published 1946
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as existential)
avg rating 4.41 — 859,336 ratings — published 2016
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 4.11 — 49,272 ratings — published 1944
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existential)
avg rating 3.85 — 921,725 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,164,377 ratings — published 1932
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 3.58 — 629,633 ratings — published 2018
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 4.38 — 40,426 ratings — published 1982
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existential)
avg rating 3.98 — 778,246 ratings — published 1987
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.09 — 538,013 ratings — published 1968
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.36 — 312,181 ratings — published 1965
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.18 — 666,750 ratings — published 1996
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 28,008 ratings — published 1971
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,603 ratings — published 1947
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential)
avg rating 3.99 — 36,114 ratings — published 1943
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.80 — 337,420 ratings — published 2014
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,022,945 ratings — published 1818
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,537 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 — 79,274 ratings — published 1864
“Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.”
― The Romeo and Juliet Code
― The Romeo and Juliet Code
“Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough.”
― Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1
― Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1
