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Existential Crisis Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,461,320 ratings — published 1942
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,267,676 ratings — published 1963
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,486,432 ratings — published 1915
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,561,857 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.59 — 591,575 ratings — published 2018
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.93 — 270,639 ratings — published 1948
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.06 — 588,323 ratings — published 1995
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,932,318 ratings — published 2018
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 238,240 ratings — published 1886
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.16 — 244,008 ratings — published 1864
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.16 — 101,306 ratings — published 1942
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.37 — 909,011 ratings — published 1946
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.84 — 94,814 ratings — published 2021
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,615,617 ratings — published 1948
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.13 — 509,157 ratings — published 2022
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,541,135 ratings — published 1943
Beautiful World, Where Are You (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.52 — 507,366 ratings — published 2021
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,035,322 ratings — published 1999
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.27 — 969,349 ratings — published 2015
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.41 — 830,572 ratings — published 2016
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,953,409 ratings — published 1951
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 82,564 ratings — published 2011
Cleopatra and Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.68 — 246,657 ratings — published 2022
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.13 — 220,868 ratings — published 1927
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.93 — 526,183 ratings — published 2018
Conversations with Friends (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.73 — 618,361 ratings — published 2017
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.98 — 47,984 ratings — published 1946
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.75 — 889,193 ratings — published 2017
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.93 — 143,247 ratings — published 1938
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.90 — 95,149 ratings — published 1970
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 408,596 ratings — published 1925
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.10 — 556,169 ratings — published 1984
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,253 ratings — published 1942
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.09 — 895,916 ratings — published 1922
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,662,136 ratings — published 1988
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.11 — 331,313 ratings — published 2021
The Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.07 — 164,692 ratings — published 2013
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.67 — 392,281 ratings — published 2016
The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.64 — 111,103 ratings — published 2017
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,118,082 ratings — published 1866
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,767,908 ratings — published 2005
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.11 — 561,522 ratings — published 2002
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.02 — 323,539 ratings — published 1947
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.39 — 38,925 ratings — published 1982
How to Stop Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.82 — 228,159 ratings — published 2017
The Woman Destroyed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.01 — 48,151 ratings — published 1967
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.21 — 224,729 ratings — published 1869
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,076,398 ratings — published 1992
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,295,567 ratings — published 2011
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,940,341 ratings — published 1890
“Anyone who romanticizes adulthood
needs to be studied by NASA.
Because only someone in orbit
could look at this mess
and call it 'normal.”
― Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
needs to be studied by NASA.
Because only someone in orbit
could look at this mess
and call it 'normal.”
― Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes












