Existential Angst Books

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Nausea Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.93 — 142,220 ratings — published 1938
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Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,108,751 ratings — published 1866
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The Stranger The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,445,073 ratings — published 1942
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The Bell Jar The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,255,806 ratings — published 1963
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Die, My Love Die, My Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.42 — 14,801 ratings — published 2012
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Notes from Underground Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.17 — 240,125 ratings — published 1864
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The Passion According to G.H. The Passion According to G.H. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,433 ratings — published 1964
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The Last Letter The Last Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.49 — 576,101 ratings — published 2019
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.89 — 82,581 ratings — published 2010
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A Beautiful and Terrible Murder (Irene Adler, #1) A Beautiful and Terrible Murder (Irene Adler, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.03 — 398 ratings — published 2025
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Rebel Witch (The Crimson Moth, #2) Rebel Witch (The Crimson Moth, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.18 — 269,429 ratings — published 2025
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Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth, #1) Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.17 — 420,202 ratings — published 2024
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My Friends My Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.35 — 454,726 ratings — published 2025
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The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed, #1) 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
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Revolve (Off the Ice, #3) Revolve (Off the Ice, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,999 ratings — published 2025
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Spiral (Off the Ice, #2) Spiral (Off the Ice, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.81 — 53,254 ratings — published 2025
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Collide (Off the Ice, #1) Collide (Off the Ice, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.75 — 152,492 ratings — published 2023
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Unloved (The Undone, #2) Unloved (The Undone, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,674 ratings — published 2025
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Unsteady (The Undone, #1) Unsteady (The Undone, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.84 — 87,055 ratings — published 2023
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Born of Blood and Ash (Flesh and Fire, #4) 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
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A Fire in the Flesh (Flesh and Fire, #3) 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
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Martyr! Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.15 — 185,306 ratings — published 2024
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White Nights White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.07 — 380,229 ratings — published 1848
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A Crown of Ruin (Blood and Ash #6.5) 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
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A Shadow in the Ember (Flesh and Fire, #1) 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
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The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2) 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
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The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology, #1) The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.92 — 176,315 ratings — published 2023
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Lore Olympus: Volume Nine (Lore Olympus, #9) Lore Olympus: Volume Nine (Lore Olympus, #9)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.45 — 7,194 ratings — published 2025
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Wildfire (Maple Hills, #2) Wildfire (Maple Hills, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.81 — 481,811 ratings — published 2023
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I Want to Go Home But I’m Already There 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
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Pucking Strong (Jacksonville Rays, #4) Pucking Strong (Jacksonville Rays, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.29 — 23,981 ratings — published 2025
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Bound Bound (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.65 — 33,803 ratings — published 2025
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It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2) It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.74 — 739,402 ratings — published 2010
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The Metamorphosis The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,471,009 ratings — published 1915
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Globetrotter (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) Globetrotter (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.82 — 38 ratings — published 2004
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Great Big Beautiful Life Great Big Beautiful Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.96 — 773,347 ratings — published 2025
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The Primal of Blood and Bone (Blood and Ash, #6) 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
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The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer, #1) The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,152,371 ratings — published 2009
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We'll Always Have Summer (Summer, #3) We'll Always Have Summer (Summer, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.77 — 677,938 ratings — published 2011
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Mate (Bride, #2) Mate (Bride, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.04 — 262,322 ratings — published 2025
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Daydream (Maple Hills, #3) Daydream (Maple Hills, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 3.90 — 247,698 ratings — published 2024
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A Soul of Ash and Blood (Blood and Ash, #5) 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
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The War of Two Queens (Blood and Ash, #4) 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
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries 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
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The ​Crown of Gilded Bones (Blood and Ash, #3) 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
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A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Blood and Ash, #2) 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
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From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash, #1) From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.21 — 873,207 ratings — published 2020
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Atmosphere Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.32 — 804,196 ratings — published 2025
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Pucking Sweet (Jacksonville Rays, #3) Pucking Sweet (Jacksonville Rays, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-angst)
avg rating 4.17 — 48,338 ratings — published 2024
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Pucking Ever After: Volume 2 (Jacksonville Rays, #2.5) 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
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Clarice Lispector
“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.”
Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

Tamara K. Walker
“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.”
Tamara K. Walker

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