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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 — 26,327 ratings — published 1951
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,979 ratings — published 1945
Self-Portrait in Green (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,162 ratings — published 2005
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.60 — 561,923 ratings — published 2018
The Sense of an Ending (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.74 — 192,131 ratings — published 2011
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,346 ratings — published 1953
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.38 — 161,477 ratings — published 2019
Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 88,101 ratings — published 2009
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 337,665 ratings — published 1995
ميتتان لرجل واحد (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,447 ratings — published 1959
The Calcutta Chromosome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.49 — 7,108 ratings — published 1996
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.14 — 118,583 ratings — published 1982
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.84 — 52,616 ratings — published 1963
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.59 — 106,793 ratings — published 1966
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 30,729 ratings — published 1949
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,885 ratings — published 1956
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.06 — 37,559 ratings — published 1964
Artforum (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.06 — 562 ratings — published 2014
In the Country of Last Things
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,999 ratings — published 1987
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,631 ratings — published 1940
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.08 — 2,162 ratings — published 2024
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 172,596 ratings — published 2022
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.12 — 853,804 ratings — published 2020
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 130,595 ratings — published 2018
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.72 — 59,400 ratings — published 2018
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,305 ratings — published 1949
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.34 — 251,029 ratings — published 1956
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.01 — 33,943 ratings — published 1963
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.04 — 99,781 ratings — published 1988
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.99 — 727,769 ratings — published 1987
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.14 — 359,187 ratings — published 1989
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.35 — 247,103 ratings — published 1965
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.22 — 184,125 ratings — published 2021
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,320,155 ratings — published 1847
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.86 — 272,457 ratings — published 1970
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,647 ratings — published 1995
The Wonder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.65 — 91,439 ratings — published 2016
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.13 — 300,348 ratings — published 1970
The Days of Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.87 — 58,654 ratings — published 2002
Forest Dark (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.08 — 7,635 ratings — published 2017
The Book of Illusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.90 — 26,707 ratings — published 2002
A Personal Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,597 ratings — published 1964
Like Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-despair)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,658 ratings — published 1990
“This isn’t life. It’s unimaginable, torturous hell- ugly, endless & godless.”
― Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
― Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“Do other dads not end their phone calls with existential despair? Because that's what my dad does. Papa ends most of his calls with me the way you might close a conversation with someone you want to menace. "Anyway," he'll say, "I'll be here. Staring into the abyss." Or, when I have given him good news, "The talented will rule and the rest will perish in the sea of mediocrity." Or, when I have given him bad news, "I am for for everything that happens to you, as everything is my fault." He never ends with anything that couldn't one day be construed as a tragic yet comic last word.”
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