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Existential Crisis Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,341,944 ratings — published 1942
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,176,772 ratings — published 1963
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,366,006 ratings — published 1915
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,339,526 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.61 — 538,700 ratings — published 2018
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.95 — 236,709 ratings — published 1948
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,796,132 ratings — published 2018
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.85 — 85,033 ratings — published 2021
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.17 — 215,485 ratings — published 1864
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,300,576 ratings — published 1949
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,406,263 ratings — published 1943
Beautiful World, Where Are You (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.53 — 480,592 ratings — published 2021
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.29 — 883,535 ratings — published 2015
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 210,799 ratings — published 1886
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,830,148 ratings — published 1951
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.15 — 421,857 ratings — published 2022
Cleopatra and Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.70 — 215,010 ratings — published 2022
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,964,826 ratings — published 2009
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.41 — 778,862 ratings — published 2016
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.17 — 87,131 ratings — published 1942
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.91 — 87,545 ratings — published 1970
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.95 — 475,559 ratings — published 2018
Conversations with Friends (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.74 — 584,983 ratings — published 2017
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,042,189 ratings — published 1866
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.75 — 849,700 ratings — published 2017
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.93 — 136,041 ratings — published 1938
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.22 — 64,207 ratings — published 1942
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.37 — 846,164 ratings — published 1946
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.17 — 49,224 ratings — published 2011
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.13 — 359,967 ratings — published 1995
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.12 — 309,132 ratings — published 2021
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.68 — 357,297 ratings — published 2016
The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.65 — 103,730 ratings — published 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,812,165 ratings — published 1890
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,726,333 ratings — published 2005
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 382,328 ratings — published 1925
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.08 — 856,514 ratings — published 1922
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.13 — 209,568 ratings — published 1927
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,474,495 ratings — published 1988
How to Stop Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.83 — 213,821 ratings — published 2018
The Woman Destroyed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.02 — 43,012 ratings — published 1967
The Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.08 — 153,682 ratings — published 2013
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.16 — 973,509 ratings — published 1992
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,219,302 ratings — published 2011
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,461,585 ratings — published 1969
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,889 ratings — published 1946
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,036,648 ratings — published 1932
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,755,592 ratings — published 1993
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.85 — 827,283 ratings — published 2005
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.12 — 535,445 ratings — published 2002
“I spend long hours contemplating my existence and the meaning of this isolation. The thoughts are dark and heavy, often leading me down spirals of despair.”
― Living in a Bunker: A diary of the life in a bunker
― Living in a Bunker: A diary of the life in a bunker
“He thought about the loss of humanity that was eating away at the world and the loss of the connection to the self that ate away at the consciousness which animated all into being. He thought about how the collective psyche was teetering on that knife’s edge between a desperation to live and a desperation to die. And here he was at the cusp of it himself.”
― The Subtle Cause
― The Subtle Cause
