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 — 280,281 ratings — published 1948
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The Stranger The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,494,282 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 — 252,232 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 — 1,521,451 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 — 99,056 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 — 1,292,122 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 — 649,294 ratings — published 1995
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Nausea Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 145,348 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 — 761,507 ratings — published 1987
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Girl, Interrupted Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.95 — 289,858 ratings — published 1993
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Severance Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.87 — 138,497 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 — 1,101,866 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 — 457,763 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 — 607,119 ratings — published 2018
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The Trial The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.93 — 415,575 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 — 1,138,567 ratings — published 1866
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1984 1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,693,643 ratings — published 1949
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The Road The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,076,832 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 — 3,984,718 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 — 174,056 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 — 62,631 ratings — published 2002
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White Nights White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.06 — 421,897 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 — 39,542 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 — 900,266 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 — 436,065 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 — 328,129 ratings — published 1947
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Piranesi Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 4.20 — 548,634 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 — 2,623,222 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 — 154,758 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 — 27,314 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 — 991,181 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 — 109,245 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 — 562,571 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 — 5,771 ratings — published 2009
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Mrs. Dalloway Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-dread)
avg rating 3.77 — 370,782 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 — 507,214 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 — 129,627 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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“So they held hands and waited for sleep, and tomorrow they would wake up, still two complex organisms, big animals with too-big brains, aware of the pointlessness of everything but willing, or at least not yet unwilling, to attend to it all anyway.”
Hadley Moore

Guillermo Saccomanno
“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.”
Guillermo Saccomanno, El oficinista

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