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No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.92 — 288,218 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,525,633 ratings — published 1942
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.16 — 259,802 ratings — published 1864
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,555,204 ratings — published 1915
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.12 — 113,854 ratings — published 2011
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,314,387 ratings — published 1963
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.03 — 702,680 ratings — published 1995
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 147,173 ratings — published 1938
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.21 — 67,039 ratings — published 1942
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.16 — 108,818 ratings — published 1942
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.98 — 772,096 ratings — published 1987
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.95 — 292,560 ratings — published 1993
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.87 — 140,365 ratings — published 2018
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,123,696 ratings — published 1992
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 421,800 ratings — published 1925
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.77 — 475,994 ratings — published 2017
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.83 — 101,418 ratings — published 2021
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.59 — 621,520 ratings — published 2018
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,157,429 ratings — published 1866
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,762,329 ratings — published 1949
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,087,673 ratings — published 2006
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,011,835 ratings — published 1951
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.92 — 178,637 ratings — published 2009
The Days of Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.86 — 64,015 ratings — published 2002
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.68 — 160,535 ratings — published 1994
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.06 — 448,180 ratings — published 1848
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.38 — 40,137 ratings — published 1982
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.85 — 913,337 ratings — published 2005
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.99 — 443,422 ratings — published 2019
The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.63 — 114,788 ratings — published 2017
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 332,819 ratings — published 1947
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.20 — 577,416 ratings — published 2020
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.88 — 62,984 ratings — published 1967
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,674,613 ratings — published 2020
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.36 — 303,132 ratings — published 1965
All the Lovers in the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.66 — 58,707 ratings — published 2011
Água Viva (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.25 — 28,781 ratings — published 1973
Radio Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 132,234 ratings — published 2016
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.40 — 187,481 ratings — published 2010
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.55 — 136,991 ratings — published 2015
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,931 ratings — published 2019
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.79 — 110,193 ratings — published 2017
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.10 — 568,703 ratings — published 1984
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.98 — 49,543 ratings — published 1946
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.07 — 12,032 ratings — published 1973
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.09 — 213,143 ratings — published 2000
The Divine Farce (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,358 ratings — published 2009
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.77 — 374,899 ratings — published 1925
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.86 — 131,770 ratings — published 1985
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.78 — 511,243 ratings — published 1926
“Everybody thinks they're gonna get a polite, formally drafted two-week notice before the lights go out. It’s a tragic, hilarious joke. The Grim Reaper doesn't care about your schedule.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“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