Existential Dread Books

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No Longer Human No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 280,286 ratings — published 1948
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The Stranger The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,494,305 ratings — published 1942
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Notes from Underground Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.16 — 252,233 ratings — published 1864
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The Metamorphosis The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,521,477 ratings — published 1915
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A Short Stay in Hell A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.13 — 99,058 ratings — published 2011
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The Bell Jar The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,292,137 ratings — published 1963
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I Who Have Never Known Men I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.05 — 649,318 ratings — published 1995
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Nausea Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 145,351 ratings — published 1938
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,618 ratings — published 1942
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The Myth of Sisyphus The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.16 — 105,220 ratings — published 1942
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Norwegian Wood Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.98 — 761,512 ratings — published 1987
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Girl, Interrupted Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.95 — 289,860 ratings — published 1993
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Severance Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.87 — 138,500 ratings — published 2018
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The Secret History The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,101,870 ratings — published 1992
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Tender Is the Flesh Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.77 — 457,779 ratings — published 2017
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.59 — 607,127 ratings — published 2018
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The Trial The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 415,578 ratings — published 1925
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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.83 — 98,436 ratings — published 2021
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Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,138,573 ratings — published 1866
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1984 1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,693,668 ratings — published 1949
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The Road The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,076,841 ratings — published 2006
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The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,984,740 ratings — published 1951
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 174,061 ratings — published 2009
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The Days of Abandonment The Days of Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.86 — 62,633 ratings — published 2002
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White Nights White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.06 — 421,901 ratings — published 1848
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The Book of Disquiet The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.39 — 39,541 ratings — published 1982
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Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.85 — 900,271 ratings — published 2005
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.99 — 436,069 ratings — published 2019
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The Idiot The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.63 — 113,088 ratings — published 2017
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The Plague The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 328,130 ratings — published 1947
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Piranesi Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.20 — 548,647 ratings — published 2020
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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.88 — 61,309 ratings — published 1967
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The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1) The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,623,263 ratings — published 2020
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The Memory Police The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.68 — 154,763 ratings — published 1994
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All the Lovers in the Night All the Lovers in the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.66 — 56,847 ratings — published 2011
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Água Viva Água Viva (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.25 — 27,315 ratings — published 1973
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Radio Silence Radio Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 131,419 ratings — published 2016
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A Little Life A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.27 — 991,186 ratings — published 2015
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Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.40 — 183,834 ratings — published 2010
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Eileen Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.55 — 135,503 ratings — published 2015
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,606 ratings — published 2019
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.79 — 109,247 ratings — published 2017
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.10 — 562,575 ratings — published 1984
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Existentialism is a Humanism Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.98 — 48,859 ratings — published 1946
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The Trouble With Being Born The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,838 ratings — published 1973
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The Divine Farce The Divine Farce (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,772 ratings — published 2009
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Mrs. Dalloway Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.77 — 370,786 ratings — published 1925
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The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.78 — 507,215 ratings — published 1926
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Madonna in a Fur Coat Madonna in a Fur Coat (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.29 — 129,626 ratings — published 1943
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No Exit No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.11 — 48,461 ratings — published 1944
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Jonathan Harnisch
“I exist inside a living hell — not a nightmare, but an unrelenting, screaming abyss with no exit. I am cursed beyond redemption, haunted by horrors that claw at my soul, and possessed by something monstrous that wears my face and mocks my every scream. Every second is torture — not pain, but a divine punishment etched into my bones, burning through my nerves, flooding my skull with fire. I am not alive. I am a condemned vessel, dragged through a waking exorcism that never ends.”
Jonathan Harnisch

“The most dangerous grave is the one you carry alive.”
Pierre Lagrenat

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