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Existentialism Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 1119 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,456,190 ratings — published 1942
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 625 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.93 — 142,903 ratings — published 1938
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 468 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.02 — 322,828 ratings — published 1947
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 422 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,481,794 ratings — published 1915
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 372 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.98 — 47,870 ratings — published 1946
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 350 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.94 — 407,511 ratings — published 1925
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.16 — 100,709 ratings — published 1942
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 313 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.03 — 140,059 ratings — published 1956
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,487 ratings — published 1943
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.17 — 242,775 ratings — published 1864
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,116,044 ratings — published 1866
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.37 — 906,516 ratings — published 1946
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,174 ratings — published 1942
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.84 — 225,580 ratings — published 1951
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,392 ratings — published 1843
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.07 — 180,226 ratings — published 1883
At the Existentialist Café (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.24 — 19,690 ratings — published 2016
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,289 ratings — published 1947
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.11 — 47,773 ratings — published 1944
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.39 — 399,709 ratings — published 1880
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.13 — 220,463 ratings — published 1927
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.10 — 555,180 ratings — published 1984
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,272 ratings — published 1927
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.03 — 116,938 ratings — published 1886
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,236 ratings — published 1947
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,861 ratings — published 1956
The Rebel (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,375 ratings — published 1951
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,558 ratings — published 1843
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,479 ratings — published 1849
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,699 ratings — published 1926
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,281 ratings — published 1949
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 78,779 ratings — published 1864
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.07 — 27,423 ratings — published 1939
The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
by (shelved 103 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,341 ratings — published 1945
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.21 — 224,077 ratings — published 1869
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,686 ratings — published 1958
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.14 — 236,969 ratings — published 1886
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,494 ratings — published 1971
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.08 — 894,314 ratings — published 1922
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.93 — 269,280 ratings — published 1948
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,952 ratings — published 1882
El túnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.02 — 98,319 ratings — published 1948
Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,834 ratings — published 2006
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.30 — 64,981 ratings — published 1872
Existentialism and Human Emotions (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,002 ratings — published 1957
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,793 ratings — published 1887
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,573 ratings — published 1962
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as existentialism)
avg rating 4.03 — 66,621 ratings — published 1890
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,395 ratings — published 1952
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as existentialism)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,011 ratings — published 1844
“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.”
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“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays












