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Existential Crisis Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,438,695 ratings — published 1942
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,251,058 ratings — published 1963
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,465,121 ratings — published 1915
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,525,298 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.60 — 580,965 ratings — published 2018
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.93 — 264,481 ratings — published 1948
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,908,681 ratings — published 2018
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.17 — 238,635 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 — 232,703 ratings — published 1886
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.17 — 98,613 ratings — published 1942
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,561,218 ratings — published 1948
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,518,943 ratings — published 1943
Beautiful World, Where Are You (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.52 — 502,981 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 — 953,999 ratings — published 2015
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.41 — 821,714 ratings — published 2016
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.37 — 897,279 ratings — published 1946
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,929,851 ratings — published 1951
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.08 — 543,080 ratings — published 1995
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 494,633 ratings — published 2022
Cleopatra and Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.68 — 240,995 ratings — published 2022
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.13 — 218,833 ratings — published 1927
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.15 — 72,823 ratings — published 2011
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.93 — 517,660 ratings — published 2018
Conversations with Friends (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.73 — 612,626 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 — 882,550 ratings — published 2017
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.93 — 141,817 ratings — published 1938
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.90 — 93,673 ratings — published 1970
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.94 — 403,686 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 — 888,770 ratings — published 1922
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,628,907 ratings — published 1988
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.11 — 327,163 ratings — published 2021
The Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.07 — 162,503 ratings — published 2013
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.67 — 384,976 ratings — published 2016
The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.64 — 109,755 ratings — published 2017
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,104,592 ratings — published 1866
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.98 — 47,456 ratings — published 1946
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,760,798 ratings — published 2005
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.11 — 556,630 ratings — published 2002
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.10 — 551,662 ratings — published 1984
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.02 — 320,379 ratings — published 1947
How to Stop Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 3.82 — 225,657 ratings — published 2017
The Woman Destroyed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.01 — 47,161 ratings — published 1967
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.21 — 221,979 ratings — published 1869
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,058,101 ratings — published 1992
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,282,956 ratings — published 2011
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,918,034 ratings — published 1890
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-crisis)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,496,724 ratings — published 1969
“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
“Even in the most breathtaking moments, the weight of my existence remains unbearable. Technology offers no salvation—I despise it. If any refuge is left in this unraveling mind, it lies in the fleeting embrace of desire, the numb surrender of oblivion, or perhaps nothing at all. And yet, love lingers, haunting and relentless, even in the depths of regret.”
― Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
― Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia












