Existential Crisis Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,365,157 ratings — published 1942
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,194,516 ratings — published 1963
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,389,625 ratings — published 1915
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,386,403 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.60 — 549,165 ratings — published 2018
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.95 — 243,493 ratings — published 1948
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,824,202 ratings — published 2018
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.85 — 86,796 ratings — published 2021
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.17 — 220,883 ratings — published 1864
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,362,010 ratings — published 1949
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,432,490 ratings — published 1943
Beautiful World, Where Are You (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.53 — 486,531 ratings — published 2021
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.28 — 901,449 ratings — published 2015
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 215,703 ratings — published 1886
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.41 — 790,921 ratings — published 2016
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,854,176 ratings — published 1951
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.15 — 444,837 ratings — published 2022
Cleopatra and Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.69 — 222,125 ratings — published 2022
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,978,428 ratings — published 1999
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.17 — 89,890 ratings — published 1942
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.90 — 89,056 ratings — published 1970
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 486,757 ratings — published 2018
Conversations with Friends (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.74 — 592,394 ratings — published 2017
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,057,781 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 — 856,520 ratings — published 2017
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.93 — 137,483 ratings — published 1938
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.22 — 64,723 ratings — published 1942
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.37 — 858,544 ratings — published 1946
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.16 — 54,250 ratings — published 2011
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.12 — 402,615 ratings — published 1995
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.11 — 314,185 ratings — published 2021
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.67 — 363,816 ratings — published 2016
The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.64 — 105,328 ratings — published 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,839,573 ratings — published 1890
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,734,523 ratings — published 2005
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 387,906 ratings — published 1925
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.08 — 865,492 ratings — published 1922
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.13 — 212,189 ratings — published 1927
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,510,964 ratings — published 1988
How to Stop Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.83 — 216,820 ratings — published 2018
The Woman Destroyed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.01 — 44,110 ratings — published 1967
The Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.08 — 155,918 ratings — published 2013
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.15 — 998,400 ratings — published 1992
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,236,914 ratings — published 2011
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,470,265 ratings — published 1969
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.98 — 45,530 ratings — published 1946
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 274,742 ratings — published 1993
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,052,506 ratings — published 1932
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,774,750 ratings — published 1993
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.85 — 838,488 ratings — published 2005
“do nada, sim, viemos, foi pelo não ser que começámos, e mortos, quando o estivermos, seremos dispersos, sem consciência, mas existindo.”
― The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
― The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
“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


