Existential Angst Books
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Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.93 — 142,220 ratings — published 1938
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,108,751 ratings — published 1866
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,445,073 ratings — published 1942
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,255,806 ratings — published 1963
Die, My Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.42 — 14,801 ratings — published 2012
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.17 — 240,125 ratings — published 1864
The Passion According to G.H. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,433 ratings — published 1964
The Last Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.49 — 576,101 ratings — published 2019
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.89 — 82,581 ratings — published 2010
A Beautiful and Terrible Murder (Irene Adler, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.03 — 398 ratings — published 2025
Rebel Witch (The Crimson Moth, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.18 — 269,429 ratings — published 2025
Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.17 — 420,202 ratings — published 2024
My Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.35 — 454,726 ratings — published 2025
The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.78 — 57,054 ratings — published 2025
Revolve (Off the Ice, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,999 ratings — published 2025
Spiral (Off the Ice, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.81 — 53,254 ratings — published 2025
Collide (Off the Ice, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.75 — 152,492 ratings — published 2023
Unloved (The Undone, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,674 ratings — published 2025
Unsteady (The Undone, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.84 — 87,055 ratings — published 2023
Born of Blood and Ash (Flesh and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.08 — 77,828 ratings — published 2024
A Fire in the Flesh (Flesh and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.12 — 129,774 ratings — published 2023
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.15 — 185,306 ratings — published 2024
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.07 — 380,229 ratings — published 1848
A Crown of Ruin (Blood and Ash #6.5)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,695 ratings — published 2025
A Shadow in the Ember (Flesh and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.45 — 252,692 ratings — published 2021
The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.87 — 99,903 ratings — published 2024
The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.92 — 176,315 ratings — published 2023
Lore Olympus: Volume Nine (Lore Olympus, #9)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.45 — 7,194 ratings — published 2025
Wildfire (Maple Hills, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.81 — 481,811 ratings — published 2023
I Want to Go Home But I’m Already There (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.38 — 1,339 ratings — published 2025
Pucking Strong (Jacksonville Rays, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.29 — 23,981 ratings — published 2025
Bound (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.65 — 33,803 ratings — published 2025
It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.74 — 739,402 ratings — published 2010
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,471,009 ratings — published 1915
Globetrotter (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.82 — 38 ratings — published 2004
Great Big Beautiful Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.96 — 773,347 ratings — published 2025
The Primal of Blood and Bone (Blood and Ash, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.56 — 46,222 ratings — published 2025
The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,152,371 ratings — published 2009
We'll Always Have Summer (Summer, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.77 — 677,938 ratings — published 2011
Mate (Bride, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.04 — 262,322 ratings — published 2025
Daydream (Maple Hills, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.90 — 247,698 ratings — published 2024
A Soul of Ash and Blood (Blood and Ash, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.88 — 174,205 ratings — published 2023
The War of Two Queens (Blood and Ash, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.08 — 325,097 ratings — published 2022
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,325 ratings — published 2017
The Crown of Gilded Bones (Blood and Ash, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.15 — 469,555 ratings — published 2021
A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Blood and Ash, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.31 — 607,486 ratings — published 2020
From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.21 — 873,207 ratings — published 2020
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.32 — 804,196 ratings — published 2025
Pucking Sweet (Jacksonville Rays, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.17 — 48,338 ratings — published 2024
Pucking Ever After: Volume 2 (Jacksonville Rays, #2.5)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,619 ratings — published 2023
“I’m about to begin halfway saying that—
—that she was incompetent. Incompetent for life. She had never figured out how to figure things out. She was only vaguely beginning to know the kind of absence she had of herself inside her. If she were an expressive creature she would say: the world is outside me, I am outside me.”
― The Hour of the Star
—that she was incompetent. Incompetent for life. She had never figured out how to figure things out. She was only vaguely beginning to know the kind of absence she had of herself inside her. If she were an expressive creature she would say: the world is outside me, I am outside me.”
― The Hour of the Star
“I have to assume that the images and information filtered through my consciousness are intrinsically relevant to these purposes that simultaneously compel and distort me. Everything exacerbates what it exasperates in an organic repetitive cycle.”
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