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Existential Dread Books
Showing 1-50 of 545
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 273,016 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,470,070 ratings — published 1942
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.16 — 246,001 ratings — published 1864
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,496,792 ratings — published 1915
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,273,619 ratings — published 1963
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 143,798 ratings — published 1938
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.06 — 603,021 ratings — published 1995
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.14 — 86,360 ratings — published 2011
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,358 ratings — published 1942
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.16 — 102,261 ratings — published 1942
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.98 — 753,141 ratings — published 1987
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.95 — 287,223 ratings — published 1993
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.88 — 136,670 ratings — published 2018
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,082,862 ratings — published 1992
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.59 — 595,345 ratings — published 2018
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.94 — 410,349 ratings — published 1925
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.77 — 441,486 ratings — published 2017
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.84 — 95,627 ratings — published 2021
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,123,163 ratings — published 1866
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,634,923 ratings — published 1948
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,066,519 ratings — published 2006
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,961,133 ratings — published 1951
The Days of Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.86 — 61,484 ratings — published 2002
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.06 — 397,965 ratings — published 1848
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.39 — 39,078 ratings — published 1982
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.85 — 888,202 ratings — published 2005
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.00 — 429,080 ratings — published 2019
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 324,725 ratings — published 1947
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 169,946 ratings — published 2009
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.89 — 59,542 ratings — published 1967
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,576,160 ratings — published 2020
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.69 — 150,349 ratings — published 1994
All the Lovers in the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.67 — 55,128 ratings — published 2011
Água Viva (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,980 ratings — published 1973
Radio Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 130,482 ratings — published 2016
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.27 — 974,685 ratings — published 2015
The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.64 — 111,591 ratings — published 2017
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.40 — 180,784 ratings — published 2010
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.56 — 134,092 ratings — published 2015
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,302 ratings — published 2019
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.80 — 108,323 ratings — published 2017
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.10 — 557,711 ratings — published 1984
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.98 — 48,221 ratings — published 1946
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,652 ratings — published 1973
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.20 — 528,115 ratings — published 2020
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.77 — 367,014 ratings — published 1925
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.79 — 503,561 ratings — published 1926
Madonna in a Fur Coat (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.30 — 122,327 ratings — published 1943
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.11 — 48,039 ratings — published 1944
Ripe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,577 ratings — published 2023
“You don't know horror until you've spent a few hours inside a hospital looking at the fitful sleep of a loved one who is being taken from you. You don't know desperation until the uselessness of praying hits you.”
― The Devil Takes You Home
― The Devil Takes You Home
“He kills the stars.”
― Borne
― Borne
