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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 — 1,415,217 ratings — published 1942
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,232,719 ratings — published 1963
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,441,766 ratings — published 1915
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,484,517 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.60 — 570,114 ratings — published 2018
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 257,795 ratings — published 1948
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,882,878 ratings — published 2018
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.84 — 90,557 ratings — published 2021
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 227,066 ratings — published 1886
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.17 — 232,665 ratings — published 1864
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,500,848 ratings — published 1948
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,494,331 ratings — published 1943
Beautiful World, Where Are You (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.52 — 497,722 ratings — published 2021
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.28 — 937,677 ratings — published 2015
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.17 — 95,900 ratings — published 1942
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,907,875 ratings — published 1951
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 479,846 ratings — published 2022
Cleopatra and Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.69 — 234,859 ratings — published 2022
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,009,590 ratings — published 1999
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.41 — 812,489 ratings — published 2016
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.37 — 885,219 ratings — published 1946
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 508,126 ratings — published 2018
Conversations with Friends (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.73 — 606,285 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 — 874,908 ratings — published 2017
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.93 — 140,436 ratings — published 1938
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.90 — 91,997 ratings — published 1970
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.21 — 65,593 ratings — published 1942
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.13 — 216,724 ratings — published 1927
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.15 — 65,954 ratings — published 2011
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.09 — 493,846 ratings — published 1995
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.11 — 322,683 ratings — published 2021
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.67 — 377,762 ratings — published 2016
The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.64 — 108,363 ratings — published 2017
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,089,889 ratings — published 1866
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,894,096 ratings — published 1890
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,753,469 ratings — published 2005
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 398,374 ratings — published 1925
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.08 — 881,625 ratings — published 1922
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,591,635 ratings — published 1988
How to Stop Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.83 — 222,771 ratings — published 2017
The Woman Destroyed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.01 — 46,132 ratings — published 1967
The Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.07 — 160,277 ratings — published 2013
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,039,529 ratings — published 1992
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,269,896 ratings — published 2011
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,488,423 ratings — published 1969
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.98 — 46,866 ratings — published 1946
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.95 — 280,158 ratings — published 1993
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,086,658 ratings — published 1932
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,819,870 ratings — published 1993
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.85 — 860,919 ratings — published 2005
“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.”
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“The superior man, one who would follow the Iron Way, he must have struggle, he must have a goal, an impossible goal to fight for, and die for if needed. This is what he craves, not the green pasture of the cows.”
― The Iron Way: A Narrative of Crisis
― The Iron Way: A Narrative of Crisis
