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Existential Fiction Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,484,850 ratings — published 1942
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 144,694 ratings — published 1938
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,510,753 ratings — published 1915
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 413,328 ratings — published 1925
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 326,618 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 11 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 142,402 ratings — published 1956
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,131,927 ratings — published 1866
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 249,623 ratings — published 1864
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 560,408 ratings — published 1984
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,953 ratings — published 1971
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 78,934 ratings — published 1864
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,377 ratings — published 1890
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 227,046 ratings — published 1951
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 222,939 ratings — published 1927
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 246,614 ratings — published 1886
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 103,975 ratings — published 1942
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 903,050 ratings — published 1922
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 277,079 ratings — published 1948
The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,568 ratings — published 1945
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,225 ratings — published 1962
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 406,030 ratings — published 1879
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 627,881 ratings — published 1995
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 65,880 ratings — published 1871
The Rebel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,599 ratings — published 1951
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,412 ratings — published 1949
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,742 ratings — published 1926
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 322,033 ratings — published 1994
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.76 — 307,693 ratings — published 1759
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,974,487 ratings — published 1951
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,079,322 ratings — published 1601
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,694,427 ratings — published 1988
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,021 ratings — published 1967
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,310 ratings — published 1947
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 527,909 ratings — published 1968
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 657,650 ratings — published 1996
The Tartar Steppe (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 45,349 ratings — published 1940
Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,020 ratings — published 1915
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 227,322 ratings — published 1869
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,283,971 ratings — published 1963
The Hour of the Star (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 62,736 ratings — published 1977
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 208,051 ratings — published 2013
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,129,129 ratings — published 1932
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,962,074 ratings — published 1890
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 440,103 ratings — published 1967
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,526 ratings — published 1952
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 39,357 ratings — published 1982
Hopscotch (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,713 ratings — published 1963
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 127,185 ratings — published 1969
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 27,622 ratings — published 1939
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 48,285 ratings — published 1944
“There were times, while Atom slept and she was awake soothing her crying daughter, that a question itched from somewhere deep within. This "unsolved mystery" that Atom spoke of: It was all in the past, her mind insisted, as that's what her husband had promised. But she couldn't let it go, so eventually she had to ask. "Why did these ghost people emerge and then just vanish in your world?”
― Return to Planet Earth
― Return to Planet Earth
“Q: Who do you think will hate this book?
Readers who need likable characters, happy endings, or faith in humanity’s progress.”
― The Weather Forecast in Hell
Readers who need likable characters, happy endings, or faith in humanity’s progress.”
― The Weather Forecast in Hell
