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Existentialist Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,426,055 ratings — published 1942
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.93 — 141,062 ratings — published 1938
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,452,520 ratings — published 1915
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 318,586 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 22 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 137,578 ratings — published 1956
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.84 — 223,790 ratings — published 1951
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.94 — 400,854 ratings — published 1925
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,096,818 ratings — published 1866
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 65,742 ratings — published 1942
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 235,527 ratings — published 1864
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.39 — 392,168 ratings — published 1880
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,262 ratings — published 1943
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.11 — 549,198 ratings — published 1984
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.98 — 47,154 ratings — published 1946
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,902 ratings — published 1843
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 178,235 ratings — published 1883
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 217,738 ratings — published 1927
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 97,180 ratings — published 1942
The Rebel (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,119 ratings — published 1951
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.37 — 890,872 ratings — published 1946
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.11 — 47,195 ratings — published 1944
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,918,281 ratings — published 1951
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.08 — 884,972 ratings — published 1922
El túnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 96,333 ratings — published 1948
At the Existentialist Café (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.24 — 19,452 ratings — published 2016
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.19 — 78,633 ratings — published 1864
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.14 — 229,714 ratings — published 1886
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,363 ratings — published 1967
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,215 ratings — published 1887
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.88 — 39,945 ratings — published 1962
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.16 — 10,416 ratings — published 1843
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,045 ratings — published 1927
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,963 ratings — published 1971
Exile and the Kingdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.83 — 15,991 ratings — published 1957
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 115,422 ratings — published 1886
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,529,526 ratings — published 1948
Existentialism and Human Emotions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,980 ratings — published 1957
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.39 — 38,174 ratings — published 1982
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 220,444 ratings — published 1869
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.91 — 76,529 ratings — published 1926
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,462 ratings — published 1945
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.31 — 63,926 ratings — published 1872
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,724 ratings — published 1882
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,739 ratings — published 1949
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.92 — 203,124 ratings — published 1952
The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,155 ratings — published 1945
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.28 — 426,625 ratings — published 1967
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 27,187 ratings — published 1939
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,178 ratings — published 1947
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,670 ratings — published 1958
“Am I selfish to rejoice in my freedom as a priceless possession? Is freedom antecedent to selfishness or does it empower us to be selfless for others?”
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
“Perhaps I can follow a heroic existential nihilist’s sterling example of surviving the harshness of reality by employing an attentive narrative examination of my recalcitrant life to extract shards of personal truth and elicit a synthesizing purposefulness of my being from the darkness, anarchy, and chaos of existence. Perhaps through the act of engaging in a deliberative examination of the ontological mystery of being and investigating the accompanying stark brutal doubt that renders a materialistic life intolerably senseless, absurd, and meaningless, I can confront the baffle of being and establish a guiding set of personal values to live by in an indifferent world. Perhaps by using the contemplative tools of narrative storytelling, I can strictly scrutinize the key leaning rubrics veiled within an array of confusing personal life experiences. Perhaps by engaging in a creative act of discovery I can blunt the pain and anguish that comes from the nightmarish experience of suffering from an existential crisis.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
