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Existential Despair Books
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The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,592 ratings — published 1951
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.46 — 8,133 ratings — published 1945
Self-Portrait in Green (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,181 ratings — published 2005
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.60 — 575,002 ratings — published 2018
The Sense of an Ending (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.74 — 193,951 ratings — published 2011
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,902 ratings — published 1953
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.38 — 163,828 ratings — published 2019
Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 90,618 ratings — published 2009
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 342,672 ratings — published 1995
ميتتان لرجل واحد (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,574 ratings — published 1959
The Calcutta Chromosome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.49 — 7,162 ratings — published 1996
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.14 — 119,681 ratings — published 1982
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.83 — 53,719 ratings — published 1963
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.59 — 107,993 ratings — published 1966
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 30,940 ratings — published 1949
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,319 ratings — published 1956
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.05 — 37,898 ratings — published 1964
Artforum (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.06 — 565 ratings — published 2014
In the Country of Last Things
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,191 ratings — published 1987
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,039 ratings — published 1940
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.08 — 2,244 ratings — published 2024
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 177,507 ratings — published 2022
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.12 — 862,713 ratings — published 2020
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 133,041 ratings — published 2018
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.72 — 60,405 ratings — published 2018
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,371 ratings — published 1949
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.34 — 261,595 ratings — published 1956
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,586 ratings — published 1963
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.04 — 100,591 ratings — published 1988
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.99 — 738,086 ratings — published 1987
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.14 — 364,819 ratings — published 1989
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.36 — 258,001 ratings — published 1965
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.21 — 190,211 ratings — published 2021
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,342,840 ratings — published 1847
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.86 — 274,269 ratings — published 1970
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,669 ratings — published 1995
The Wonder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.65 — 91,834 ratings — published 2016
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.13 — 305,633 ratings — published 1970
The Days of Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.86 — 59,753 ratings — published 2002
Forest Dark (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.08 — 7,662 ratings — published 2017
The Book of Illusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.90 — 26,864 ratings — published 2002
A Personal Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,759 ratings — published 1964
Like Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,682 ratings — published 1990
“Imagine there’s no Sadness, it’s easy if you try…” whoever sings, John something. “Nothing white inside us, around us only DIE… Imagine all the Shells, Loving everyday—“ ”
― Motive Black
― Motive Black
“There were moments when life at school became a matter of utter indifference to him. Then the putty of his everyday concerns dropped out and, with nothing more to bind them together, the hours of his life fell apart.”
― The Confusions of Young Törless
― The Confusions of Young Törless
