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Existential Crisis Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,276
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,438,715 ratings — published 1942
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,251,063 ratings — published 1963
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,465,128 ratings — published 1915
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,525,323 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.60 — 580,968 ratings — published 2018
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.93 — 264,489 ratings — published 1948
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,908,701 ratings — published 2018
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.17 — 238,636 ratings — published 1864
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.84 — 92,670 ratings — published 2021
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 232,710 ratings — published 1886
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.17 — 98,617 ratings — published 1942
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,561,265 ratings — published 1948
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,518,965 ratings — published 1943
Beautiful World, Where Are You (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.52 — 502,982 ratings — published 2021
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,022,979 ratings — published 1999
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.27 — 954,003 ratings — published 2015
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.41 — 821,718 ratings — published 2016
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.37 — 897,283 ratings — published 1946
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,929,860 ratings — published 1951
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.08 — 543,097 ratings — published 1995
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 494,651 ratings — published 2022
Cleopatra and Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.68 — 240,997 ratings — published 2022
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.13 — 218,835 ratings — published 1927
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.15 — 72,827 ratings — published 2011
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.93 — 517,662 ratings — published 2018
Conversations with Friends (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.73 — 612,630 ratings — published 2017
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.75 — 882,556 ratings — published 2017
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.93 — 141,820 ratings — published 1938
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.90 — 93,674 ratings — published 1970
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 403,690 ratings — published 1925
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.21 — 65,938 ratings — published 1942
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.08 — 888,773 ratings — published 1922
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,628,925 ratings — published 1988
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.11 — 327,169 ratings — published 2021
The Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.07 — 162,507 ratings — published 2013
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.67 — 384,975 ratings — published 2016
The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.64 — 109,756 ratings — published 2017
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,104,604 ratings — published 1866
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.98 — 47,457 ratings — published 1946
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,760,797 ratings — published 2005
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.11 — 556,636 ratings — published 2002
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.10 — 551,663 ratings — published 1984
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.02 — 320,382 ratings — published 1947
How to Stop Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.82 — 225,658 ratings — published 2017
The Woman Destroyed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.01 — 47,162 ratings — published 1967
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.21 — 221,980 ratings — published 1869
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,058,120 ratings — published 1992
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,282,961 ratings — published 2011
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,918,041 ratings — published 1890
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,496,731 ratings — published 1969
“Life is null and void.”
― Dead Equation
― Dead Equation
“Where’s the form to request a refund for Earth?
Because, honestly… this incarnation is costing me everything.”
― Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
Because, honestly… this incarnation is costing me everything.”
― Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes












