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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,534,557 ratings — published 1942
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.93 — 147,712 ratings — published 1938
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,567,772 ratings — published 1915
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 334,281 ratings — published 1947
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.84 — 229,214 ratings — published 1952
The Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 146,829 ratings — published 1956
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,163,082 ratings — published 1866
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.16 — 261,999 ratings — published 1864
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.93 — 424,016 ratings — published 1925
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 67,158 ratings — published 1942
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.40 — 417,093 ratings — published 1879
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.99 — 36,042 ratings — published 1943
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.10 — 570,389 ratings — published 1984
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.98 — 49,769 ratings — published 1946
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.00 — 33,593 ratings — published 1843
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 184,555 ratings — published 1883
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 227,558 ratings — published 1927
El túnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.01 — 103,184 ratings — published 1948
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,965 ratings — published 1951
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.37 — 942,196 ratings — published 1946
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.11 — 49,058 ratings — published 1944
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.16 — 109,823 ratings — published 1942
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.14 — 262,872 ratings — published 1886
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,402 ratings — published 1967
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.12 — 38,378 ratings — published 1887
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,019,410 ratings — published 1951
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.09 — 917,450 ratings — published 1922
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.88 — 42,447 ratings — published 1962
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,866 ratings — published 1843
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,094 ratings — published 1952
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,851 ratings — published 1927
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 27,808 ratings — published 1971
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 120,914 ratings — published 1886
Existentialism and Human Emotions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,044 ratings — published 1957
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.19 — 79,199 ratings — published 1864
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.38 — 40,178 ratings — published 1982
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 233,001 ratings — published 1869
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.90 — 80,599 ratings — published 1926
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,606 ratings — published 1945
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 — 21,528 ratings — published 1882
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,398 ratings — published 1949
The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.99 — 16,820 ratings — published 1945
Exile and the Kingdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.82 — 16,758 ratings — published 1957
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,781,482 ratings — published 1949
At the Existentialist Café (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.24 — 20,203 ratings — published 2016
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 27,994 ratings — published 1939
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.31 — 68,202 ratings — published 1871
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,557 ratings — published 1947
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,721 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,983 ratings — published 1959
“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
“Unsere Zukunft liegt vor uns, sie wird auf uns zukommen, sie ist völlig ausserhalb unserer Kontrolle. Aber es liegt an uns, sie nach unserer eigenen Vorstellung zu gestalten. Oder beim Versuch dabei zu sterben!”
― Die Howl Gang Legende
― Die Howl Gang Legende
