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Existential Dread Books
Showing 1-50 of 515
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.94 — 255,080 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,406,107 ratings — published 1942
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 230,286 ratings — published 1864
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,432,778 ratings — published 1915
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,225,409 ratings — published 1963
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 139,858 ratings — published 1938
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.10 — 474,824 ratings — published 1995
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.22 — 65,472 ratings — published 1942
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 94,778 ratings — published 1942
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.99 — 731,150 ratings — published 1987
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.94 — 278,980 ratings — published 1993
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.16 — 63,602 ratings — published 2011
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.60 — 566,080 ratings — published 2018
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.88 — 131,465 ratings — published 2018
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,032,250 ratings — published 1992
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.94 — 396,334 ratings — published 1925
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.84 — 89,812 ratings — published 2021
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,475,461 ratings — published 1949
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,899,074 ratings — published 1951
The Days of Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.87 — 58,984 ratings — published 2002
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.07 — 348,516 ratings — published 1848
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.01 — 407,649 ratings — published 2019
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.77 — 401,028 ratings — published 2017
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,083,768 ratings — published 1866
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 315,503 ratings — published 1947
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,038,860 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 — 156,168 ratings — published 2009
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.70 — 139,594 ratings — published 1994
All the Lovers in the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.67 — 51,043 ratings — published 2011
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.39 — 37,764 ratings — published 1982
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.85 — 856,523 ratings — published 2005
Radio Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 128,612 ratings — published 2016
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.28 — 930,980 ratings — published 2015
The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.64 — 107,769 ratings — published 2017
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.56 — 129,896 ratings — published 2015
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 78,380 ratings — published 2019
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.80 — 106,330 ratings — published 2017
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.11 — 544,998 ratings — published 1984
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.98 — 46,623 ratings — published 1946
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,181 ratings — published 1973
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.78 — 357,322 ratings — published 1925
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.79 — 494,618 ratings — published 1926
Madonna in a Fur Coat (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.33 — 104,234 ratings — published 1943
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.11 — 46,795 ratings — published 1944
Ripe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.59 — 32,686 ratings — published 2023
Ordinary Human Failings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.72 — 12,292 ratings — published 2023
Burial Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.04 — 124,743 ratings — published 2013
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.78 — 414,257 ratings — published 1993
All Men Are Mortal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,648 ratings — published 1946
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.89 — 54,387 ratings — published 1967
“Toda su vida ha estado así, piensa. Piensa que desde que tiene memoria se encuentra con el cañón de un arma en la nuca. No aguanta más.”
― El oficinista
― El oficinista
“Let the ominous one find me,
not to visit, but to finish.
Brief, brutal,
a silence carved from screams.
Let the lock stay open,
the air thick with rot and mercy.
No more rehearsals of shame,
no more days on this damned spinning rock.
I've already died,
but I wake too often.
Let tonight be the last mistake.
Let nothing ever come after.”
― The Dreamer Sleeps Without Dreaming
not to visit, but to finish.
Brief, brutal,
a silence carved from screams.
Let the lock stay open,
the air thick with rot and mercy.
No more rehearsals of shame,
no more days on this damned spinning rock.
I've already died,
but I wake too often.
Let tonight be the last mistake.
Let nothing ever come after.”
― The Dreamer Sleeps Without Dreaming
