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Existentialist Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,481,884 ratings — published 1942
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.93 — 144,519 ratings — published 1938
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,507,760 ratings — published 1915
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 326,258 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 22 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 142,148 ratings — published 1956
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.84 — 226,882 ratings — published 1951
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,130,098 ratings — published 1866
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.93 — 412,753 ratings — published 1925
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,480 ratings — published 1942
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.16 — 248,923 ratings — published 1864
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.39 — 405,339 ratings — published 1879
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,672 ratings — published 1943
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.10 — 559,856 ratings — published 1984
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.98 — 48,547 ratings — published 1946
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,821 ratings — published 1843
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 222,573 ratings — published 1927
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.16 — 103,615 ratings — published 1942
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 181,155 ratings — published 1883
The Rebel (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,580 ratings — published 1951
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.37 — 918,419 ratings — published 1946
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.11 — 48,233 ratings — published 1944
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,971,853 ratings — published 1951
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.09 — 901,860 ratings — published 1922
El túnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 99,802 ratings — published 1948
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 — 78,913 ratings — published 1864
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.14 — 245,020 ratings — published 1886
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,997 ratings — published 1967
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.12 — 37,443 ratings — published 1887
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,173 ratings — published 1962
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,656 ratings — published 1843
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,463 ratings — published 1927
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,905 ratings — published 1971
Exile and the Kingdom (Vintage International)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.83 — 16,398 ratings — published 1957
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 118,232 ratings — published 1886
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,661,336 ratings — published 1948
Existentialism and Human Emotions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,015 ratings — published 1957
At the Existentialist Café (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.24 — 19,874 ratings — published 2016
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.39 — 39,299 ratings — published 1982
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 226,972 ratings — published 1869
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,640 ratings — published 1926
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,543 ratings — published 1945
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.30 — 65,793 ratings — published 1871
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 — 21,135 ratings — published 1882
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,699 ratings — published 1949
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,420 ratings — published 1952
The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.99 — 16,542 ratings — published 1945
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.28 — 439,458 ratings — published 1967
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 27,608 ratings — published 1939
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,380 ratings — published 1947
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,701 ratings — published 1958
“Do you know existence is in its purest of state when it experiences total freedom? One is under the illusion of freedom when he is into self, apart and along with the people, and this illusion shatters the day one meets with the reality that like others he too is not alone and free; but in fact, a time comes in everyone’s life, the moment of death, when the realization is thrust upon that all this time it was the illusion of reality within the illusion of freedom that created a false sense of togetherness as since inception everyone has been alone and will be until the inevitable death befalls upon them.”
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
“We are souls in the flesh
specters caught between
the limbo of yesterday and tomorrow
illusions of the present
imposters in these skins
I am rain blown sideways by the wind
My art, my love, my hunger slows the descent
I spread out like a shadow on the pavement
stomped on by what is, saved by what is not
but is and is not are so fickle
Reality and dreams dress up as one another
playing musical chairs in the mind
and if you are so lucky that a dream seizes
the throne and turns your mind into an imagination, do not revolt, do not resist
Become your madness
Become the fool”
― Become The Fool
specters caught between
the limbo of yesterday and tomorrow
illusions of the present
imposters in these skins
I am rain blown sideways by the wind
My art, my love, my hunger slows the descent
I spread out like a shadow on the pavement
stomped on by what is, saved by what is not
but is and is not are so fickle
Reality and dreams dress up as one another
playing musical chairs in the mind
and if you are so lucky that a dream seizes
the throne and turns your mind into an imagination, do not revolt, do not resist
Become your madness
Become the fool”
― Become The Fool
