Existential Fiction Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,457,342 ratings — published 1942
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 142,984 ratings — published 1938
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,482,852 ratings — published 1915
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 407,755 ratings — published 1925
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 322,988 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 11 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 140,159 ratings — published 1956
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,116,739 ratings — published 1866
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 220,562 ratings — published 1927
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 555,423 ratings — published 1984
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 — 78,789 ratings — published 1864
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 66,665 ratings — published 1890
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 225,643 ratings — published 1951
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,509 ratings — published 1971
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 243,054 ratings — published 1864
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 237,261 ratings — published 1886
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 269,583 ratings — published 1948
The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 16,352 ratings — published 1945
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,614 ratings — published 1962
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 399,984 ratings — published 1880
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 894,710 ratings — published 1922
The Tartar Steppe (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,240 ratings — published 1940
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 65,029 ratings — published 1872
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 100,830 ratings — published 1942
The Rebel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,385 ratings — published 1951
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,192 ratings — published 1949
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,750 ratings — published 1926
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 319,773 ratings — published 1994
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.76 — 305,838 ratings — published 1759
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,949,778 ratings — published 1951
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,071,671 ratings — published 1601
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,656,483 ratings — published 1988
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,743 ratings — published 1967
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,241 ratings — published 1947
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 523,326 ratings — published 1968
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 653,198 ratings — published 1996
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 581,178 ratings — published 1995
Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,894 ratings — published 1915
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 224,199 ratings — published 1869
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,264,876 ratings — published 1963
The Hour of the Star (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 60,110 ratings — published 1977
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 206,475 ratings — published 2013
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,113,202 ratings — published 1932
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,936,634 ratings — published 1890
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 434,127 ratings — published 1967
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,457 ratings — published 1952
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 38,847 ratings — published 1982
Hopscotch (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,253 ratings — published 1963
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 125,811 ratings — published 1969
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 27,430 ratings — published 1939
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 47,797 ratings — published 1944
“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
“To those who claim I lack respect for the human race — I will say that, after all, I removed the phrase ‘depressed neurotic monkeys’ from all the places in the book; and not just because I like and respect monkeys. What does that tell you?”
― The Weather Forecast in Hell
― The Weather Forecast in Hell

