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Existential Dread Books
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No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 264,746 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,439,686 ratings — published 1942
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 238,865 ratings — published 1864
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,466,059 ratings — published 1915
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,251,797 ratings — published 1963
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 141,883 ratings — published 1938
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.08 — 545,239 ratings — published 1995
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.21 — 65,948 ratings — published 1942
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.15 — 73,317 ratings — published 2011
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 98,727 ratings — published 1942
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.99 — 742,800 ratings — published 1987
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.95 — 283,590 ratings — published 1993
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,058,917 ratings — published 1992
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.60 — 581,416 ratings — published 2018
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.88 — 134,152 ratings — published 2018
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.94 — 403,905 ratings — published 1925
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.84 — 92,762 ratings — published 2021
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,105,176 ratings — published 1866
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,563,623 ratings — published 1948
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,930,710 ratings — published 1951
The Days of Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.86 — 60,281 ratings — published 2002
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.07 — 376,476 ratings — published 1848
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.39 — 38,449 ratings — published 1982
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.00 — 420,209 ratings — published 2019
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.77 — 423,118 ratings — published 2017
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 320,543 ratings — published 1947
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,053,554 ratings — published 2006
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 164,344 ratings — published 2009
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,044 ratings — published 1967
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.69 — 145,268 ratings — published 1994
All the Lovers in the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.67 — 53,237 ratings — published 2011
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.85 — 873,436 ratings — published 2005
Radio Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.17 — 129,617 ratings — published 2016
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.27 — 954,681 ratings — published 2015
The Idiot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.64 — 109,814 ratings — published 2017
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.56 — 132,150 ratings — published 2015
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.02 — 78,851 ratings — published 2019
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.80 — 107,371 ratings — published 2017
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.10 — 551,874 ratings — published 1984
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.98 — 47,481 ratings — published 1946
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,418 ratings — published 1973
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.77 — 362,377 ratings — published 1925
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.79 — 499,328 ratings — published 1926
Madonna in a Fur Coat (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.32 — 114,084 ratings — published 1943
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.11 — 47,451 ratings — published 1944
Ripe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,761 ratings — published 2023
Ordinary Human Failings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,766 ratings — published 2023
Burial Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.04 — 126,314 ratings — published 2013
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.78 — 421,843 ratings — published 1993
All Men Are Mortal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,787 ratings — published 1946
“Nobody really worries much about what is going to happen millions of years hence. Even if they think they are worrying about that, they are really deceiving themselves. They are worried about something much more mundane, or it may merely be a bad digestion; but nobody is really seriously rendered unhappy by the thought of something that is going to happen to this world millions and millions of years hence. Therefore, although it is of course a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out -- at least I suppose we may say so, although sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation -- it is not such as to render life miserable. It merely makes you turn your attention to other things.”
― Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
― Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“Summer really is over. In a moment, it'll start raining, then be Christmas, then a whole new year. Lately, time seems to move like that, like as soon as I get my hand firmly around a moment, it has turned to dust and there's a new moment to try and grasp.”
― Tilt
― Tilt
