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Existential Dread Books
Showing 1-50 of 488
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,346,546 ratings — published 1942
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.95 — 238,096 ratings — published 1948
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 216,610 ratings — published 1864
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,370,917 ratings — published 1915
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,180,817 ratings — published 1963
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 136,357 ratings — published 1938
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.22 — 64,302 ratings — published 1942
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.13 — 369,785 ratings — published 1995
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 87,690 ratings — published 1942
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.99 — 710,423 ratings — published 1987
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.94 — 272,476 ratings — published 1993
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.16 — 978,544 ratings — published 1992
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.61 — 541,055 ratings — published 2018
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 50,254 ratings — published 2011
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.89 — 126,515 ratings — published 2018
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.94 — 383,508 ratings — published 1925
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.85 — 85,467 ratings — published 2021
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 306,038 ratings — published 1947
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,314,010 ratings — published 1949
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,835,336 ratings — published 1951
The Days of Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,566 ratings — published 2002
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.08 — 303,149 ratings — published 1848
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 386,648 ratings — published 2019
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.78 — 360,299 ratings — published 2017
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,681 ratings — published 1973
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,045,362 ratings — published 1866
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,014,720 ratings — published 2006
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.94 — 144,094 ratings — published 2009
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.70 — 130,303 ratings — published 1994
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.40 — 36,527 ratings — published 1982
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.85 — 829,806 ratings — published 2005
Radio Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 127,015 ratings — published 2016
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.29 — 887,662 ratings — published 2015
The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.65 — 104,124 ratings — published 2017
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.56 — 125,319 ratings — published 2015
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.03 — 77,478 ratings — published 2019
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.81 — 103,819 ratings — published 2017
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.11 — 532,588 ratings — published 1984
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.98 — 45,028 ratings — published 1946
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.12 — 536,678 ratings — published 2002
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.78 — 347,917 ratings — published 1923
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.79 — 486,756 ratings — published 1926
Madonna in a Fur Coat (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.36 — 90,471 ratings — published 1943
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.11 — 45,584 ratings — published 1944
Ripe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.60 — 30,850 ratings — published 2023
Ordinary Human Failings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,618 ratings — published 2023
Burial Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.04 — 122,317 ratings — published 2013
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.78 — 402,615 ratings — published 1993
All Men Are Mortal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,402 ratings — published 1946
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,350,316 ratings — published 2020
“What could I say? Maybe this: the man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time; he is outside time; in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy; in that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.”
― Slowness
― Slowness
“Hell isn’t beneath us—it’s stitched into the fabric of this world, disguised as life. I didn’t want to vanish—I just didn’t want to rot unheard.”
― Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
― Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
